{"id":25250,"date":"2011-01-21T07:24:11","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T14:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=25250"},"modified":"2011-01-21T08:25:34","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T15:25:34","slug":"mcsorley-says-jennings%e2%80%99-claim-is-false","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/01\/mcsorley-says-jennings%e2%80%99-claim-is-false\/","title":{"rendered":"McSorley says Jennings\u2019 claim is false"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_25251\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-25251 \" title=\"McSorley, Cisco\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/McSorley-Cisco.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Cisco McSorley (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Senate Committee on Committees replaced Judiciary Chairman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SMCSO\">Cisco McSorley<\/a>, D-Albuquerque, with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SMARR\">Richard Martinez<\/a>, D-Espa\u00f1ola on Thursday. The move had been rumored for weeks, so it wasn\u2019t a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>What was surprising was the reason Senate President Pro-tem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SJENT\">Tim Jennings<\/a> gave for the move. From The Santa Fe New Mexican\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/roundhouseroundup.blogspot.com\/2011\/01\/mcsorley-dumped-as-judicial-chair.html\">Steve Terrell<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cJennings said the main reason for replacing McSorley was complaints about bills bottlenecking in the committee. There was a period during last year&#8217;s session when Judiciary didn&#8217;t meet at all, Jennings said.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But many would say the committee most known in the Senate for being a bottleneck is not the Judiciary Committee. It\u2019s the Rules Committee, which is chaired by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SLOPE\">Linda Lopez<\/a>, D-Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez is a more conservative lawmaker and more closely aligned with Senate leadership than the liberal McSorley. The ethics reform bills her committee has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/watching-the-grass-grow-again-in-senate-rules\/\">delayed and\/or stonewalled<\/a> in the past are bills Jennings and other leaders have generally opposed.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez remains chair of the Rules Committee.<\/p>\n<p>McSorley told NMPolitics.net that he is \u201cextremely disappointed\u201d by the statement from Jennings, which he said is false.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve known for a long time, since (Jennings) has come into office as the president, that the conservatives have wanted to remove me,\u201d McSorley said. \u201cI know he has the right and the power to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the fact that he would say things that aren\u2019t true instead of just speaking the truth is very disappointing, and I\u2019m not going to react in kind,\u201d he said. \u201c\u2026 I\u2019m going to rise above it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before Thursday, McSorley had served as chair or vice chair of the House or Senate judiciary committees for 24 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate President Pro-tem Tim Jennings says Cisco McSorley was stripped of his position as chairman of the Judiciary Committee because he wasn\u2019t moving bills quickly enough. But many would say the committee most known for such bottlenecking is the Rules Committee.<\/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-25250","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\/25250","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=25250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}