{"id":1947,"date":"2007-07-09T02:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-09T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/07\/article-tells-all-about-influential-businessman\/"},"modified":"2007-07-09T02:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-09T08:05:00","slug":"article-tells-all-about-influential-businessman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/07\/article-tells-all-about-influential-businessman\/","title":{"rendered":"Article tells all about influential businessman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RpHsgiuSXWI\/AAAAAAAACxw\/dPtT1klki4E\/s1600-h\/Cope,+Johnny.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RpHsgiuSXWI\/AAAAAAAACxw\/dPtT1klki4E\/s200\/Cope,+Johnny.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5085105498098916706\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>You might recall <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/senators-smell-something-fishy-table.html\">me writing<\/a> during this year\u2019s legislative session about a proposal to provide a $30 million loan guarantee for a tilapia farm in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Hidalgo<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>. The proposal was killed by lawmakers because it came up at the last minute, and many thought something smelled fishy.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The project was pushed by Johnny Cope, the chairman of the state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmshtd.state.nm.us\/main.asp?secid=11395\" target=\"_blank\">Transportation Commission<\/a> and a close friend of Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a>. At the time, he was a director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmprc.state.nm.us\/cgi-bin\/prcdtl.cgi?2801173+NM+TILAPIA+CORPORATION\" target=\"_blank\">New Mexico Tilapia Corporation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Turns out he\u2019s one of the wealthiest and most influential people in the state. The Albuquerque Journal did a profile of him this weekend that has politicos talking.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It\u2019s an interesting read. Check it out by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/576814nm07-08-07.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might recall me writing during this year\u2019s legislative session about a proposal to provide a $30 million loan guarantee for a tilapia farm in Hidalgo County. The proposal was killed by lawmakers because it came up at the last minute, and many thought something smelled fishy. The project was pushed by Johnny Cope, the [&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-1947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947","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=1947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1947\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}