{"id":23747,"date":"2010-11-20T15:56:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T22:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=23747"},"modified":"2010-11-21T22:02:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T05:02:33","slug":"dems-nominate-lujan-to-continue-as-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/11\/dems-nominate-lujan-to-continue-as-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems nominate Luj\u00e1n to continue as speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"<dl id=\"attachment_12647\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 280px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-12647 \" title=\"Lujan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Lujan-300x261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Lujan-300x261.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Lujan.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><\/dt>\n<dd class=\"wp-caption-dd\">Rep. Ben Luj\u00e1n (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<p>The House Democratic caucus nominated Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HLUJA\">Ben Luj\u00e1n<\/a> of Namb\u00e9 today to continue serving as speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Luj\u00e1n survived a challenge from Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HCERV\">Joseph Cervantes<\/a> of Las Cruces. The meeting was held behind closed doors and the vote totals are secret.<\/p>\n<p>Luj\u00e1n told reporters that he was <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thenewmexican\/status\/6104070641156096\">nominated by acclimation<\/a>, according to The Santa Fe New Mexican.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HGAMH\">Mary Helen Garcia<\/a> of Las Cruces, Cervantes\u2019 aunt and one of his supporters, <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/thenewmexican\/status\/6107885620695040\">was quoted<\/a> by The New Mexican as saying, \u201cAs usual, the north and Albuquerque controls everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s vote doesn\u2019t necessarily mean Luj\u00e1n will continue serving as speaker. Garcia and two other Democrats have said they would be willing to support <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/11\/two-more-dems-want-cervantes-to-be-speaker\/\">a bipartisan coalition<\/a> overthrow of Luj\u00e1n by Cervantes \u2013 a possibility Cervantes has been discussing with Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The formal vote on who will be speaker will take place on the opening day of the legislative session in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The House Democratic caucus nominated Rep. Ben Luj\u00e1n of Namb\u00e9 today to continue serving as speaker.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23747","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=23747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}