{"id":1797,"date":"2007-05-31T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T22:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/meet-this-sites-new-progressive-columnist\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T14:11:09","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T20:11:09","slug":"meet-this-sites-new-progressive-columnist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/meet-this-sites-new-progressive-columnist\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet this site&#8217;s new progressive columnist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rl9NNYrd3ZI\/AAAAAAAACd4\/zbLQCv7obrM\/s1600-h\/Bundy,+Carter.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rl9NNYrd3ZI\/AAAAAAAACd4\/zbLQCv7obrM\/s200\/Bundy,+Carter.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5070856597800869266\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>When I announced last week that Whitney Cheshire would join this site as a weekly columnist, I said the conservative <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen2.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/about-whitney-cheshire-in-late-2005.html\">Wednesday Morning Quarterback<\/a> would be balanced by a progressive writer.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Meet Carter Bundy, who will write a weekly column called <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Bundy%20columns\">Left @ Albuquerque<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You might recall Bundy writing a <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2007\/05\/why-earned-citizenship-which-isnt.html\">guest column<\/a> on immigration last week. He is the political and legislative director for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afscme.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">AFSCME<\/a> in <st1:state st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:state> and a recovering lawyer who left the bright lights of <st1:state st=\"on\">New York<\/st1:state> for the 2000 Gore campaign and now lives in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Bundy will be writing from his own perspective, not that of AFSCME.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He and <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Cheshire<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> actually know each other well and should have some good political and policy debates on this site. Both columns will run on Wednesdays. <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Cheshire<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> started this week. Bundy will start next week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Your feedback and ideas are always welcome. E-mail me at <a href=\"mailto:heath@haussamen.com\">heath@haussamen.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">&#8211; Heath Haussamen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I announced last week that Whitney Cheshire would join this site as a weekly columnist, I said the conservative Wednesday Morning Quarterback would be balanced by a progressive writer. Meet Carter Bundy, who will write a weekly column called Left @ Albuquerque. You might recall Bundy writing a guest column on immigration last week. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bundy-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}