{"id":1419,"date":"2007-03-16T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T18:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/03\/senate-tempers-flare-house-dems-meet-in-secret\/"},"modified":"2007-03-16T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T18:23:00","slug":"senate-tempers-flare-house-dems-meet-in-secret","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/03\/senate-tempers-flare-house-dems-meet-in-secret\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate tempers flare; House Dems meet in secret"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rfrg_O6ElPI\/AAAAAAAABl0\/rVlMaQfQ_jA\/s1600-h\/Legislature.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rfrg_O6ElPI\/AAAAAAAABl0\/rVlMaQfQ_jA\/s200\/Legislature.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5042590109732738290\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Tempers are flaring in the Senate, but the rest of the Roundhouse is eerily quiet today as House Democrats continue a secret caucus meeting that has lasted more than two hours already.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A few moments ago, during a debate of a bill relating to the U.S. Border Patrol, Sens. <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=255&#038;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Carraro<\/a>, R-Albuquerque, and <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=286&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Sanchez<\/a>, D-Belen, got into it. I wasn\u2019t there to witness it (a sergeant-at-arms for some reason locked the door to the Senate media gallery and kept me out) but apparently Carraro threw a fit after Sanchez called him a liar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lt. Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltgovernor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diane Denish<\/a> had to call the sergeant-at-arms and threaten to remove Carraro. The situation is calm, for now. But people are only going to get more tired as we approach noon on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Meanwhile, among topics being discussed by House Democrats in their secret meeting is the probable attempt Republicans will make today to get a floor hearing on a bill that would remake the state\u2019s scandal-plagued regional housing authorities. I\u2019m told Speaker of the House <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=204&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Lujan<\/a> is working to prevent Democrats from voting with Republicans to blast the bill out of the House Business and Industry Committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At least eight Democrats would need to join the Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tempers are flaring in the Senate, but the rest of the Roundhouse is eerily quiet today as House Democrats continue a secret caucus meeting that has lasted more than two hours already. A few moments ago, during a debate of a bill relating to the U.S. Border Patrol, Sens. Joe Carraro, R-Albuquerque, and Michael Sanchez, [&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-1419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419","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=1419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}