{"id":25003,"date":"2011-01-11T09:34:32","date_gmt":"2011-01-11T16:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=25003"},"modified":"2011-01-11T09:34:32","modified_gmt":"2011-01-11T16:34:32","slug":"nm-delegation-doesn%e2%80%99t-want-decreased-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/01\/nm-delegation-doesn%e2%80%99t-want-decreased-access\/","title":{"rendered":"NM delegation doesn\u2019t want decreased access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Even in the wake of Saturday\u2019s shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, members of the New Mexico delegation say they don\u2019t want to build a wall of security between themselves and their constituents.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/washington\/112316116563newswashington01-11-11.htm\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don&#8217;t think it\u2019s practical to provide security to individual members,\u201d Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/bingaman.senate.gov\">Jeff Bingaman<\/a>, D-N.M., was quoted by the Journal as saying. \u201cIt\u2019s also contrary to the general idea that members of Congress need to be freely available to constituents.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA representative democracy like we have can only work when you are out among the people,\u201d U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/pearce.house.gov\">Steve Pearce<\/a>, R-N.M., was quoted as saying. \u201c\u2026We still want to be accessible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/washington\/112316116563newswashington01-11-11.htm\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even in the wake of Saturday\u2019s shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, members of the New Mexico delegation say they don\u2019t want to build a wall of security between themselves and their constituents.<\/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":[142,116],"class_list":["post-25003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-crime","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25003","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=25003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}