{"id":1192,"date":"2007-02-01T18:19:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-02T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/02\/cockfighting-ban-clears-first-hurdle-in-senate\/"},"modified":"2007-02-01T18:19:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-02T00:19:00","slug":"cockfighting-ban-clears-first-hurdle-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/02\/cockfighting-ban-clears-first-hurdle-in-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Cockfighting ban clears first hurdle in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RcKD6t4KcuI\/AAAAAAAAAtA\/VymxMfHR6dk\/s1600-h\/Garcia,+Mary+Jane.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RcKD6t4KcuI\/AAAAAAAAAtA\/VymxMfHR6dk\/s200\/Garcia,+Mary+Jane.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5026725178869707490\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=261&#038;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Jane Garcia\u2019s<\/a> quest to outlaw cockfighting in <st1:state st=\"on\">New  Mexico<\/st1:state> cleared its first hurdle this afternoon when the Senate Conservation Committee, whose chair opposed the proposal, gave it a <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Do<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">Pass.<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Committee members voted 5-3 to approve the measure, with committee Chair Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=263&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Griego<\/a>, D-San Jose, among those voting against it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI am overjoyed that we have taken this enormous step,\u201d Garcia, D-Do\u00f1a Ana, said after the vote. \u201cI have carried this ban for 18 years, and I feel that now we are closer than ever to making it a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/_session.asp?w=com&#038;year=07&amp;chamber=S&#038;type=++&amp;number=10\" target=\"_blank\">Senate Bill 10<\/a> now moves to the Senate Judiciary Committee and must be approved there before it can be voted on by the entire Senate. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mary Jane Garcia\u2019s quest to outlaw cockfighting in New Mexico cleared its first hurdle this afternoon when the Senate Conservation Committee, whose chair opposed the proposal, gave it a Do Pass. Committee members voted 5-3 to approve the measure, with committee Chair Sen. Phil Griego, D-San Jose, among those voting against it. \u201cI am [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}