{"id":25293,"date":"2011-01-21T08:23:12","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T15:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=25293"},"modified":"2011-01-21T11:20:55","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T18:20:55","slug":"nunez-might-become-an-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/01\/nunez-might-become-an-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"Nu\u00f1ez might become an independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23309\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23309\" title=\"Nunez, Andy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Nunez-Andy1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Andy Nu\u00f1ez, D-Hatch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After losing the chairmanship of the House Agriculture and Water Resources Committee on Thursday, Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HNUNE\">Andy Nunez<\/a> says he might leave the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>Nu\u00f1ez headed to his home in Hatch on Thursday after House Speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HLUJA\">Ben Luj\u00e1n<\/a> announced new committee assignments. Nunnez told NMPolitics.net that he\u2019s going to \u201clet it cool down for a week, and we\u2019ll see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But he confirmed he is thinking about switching his party registration to declined to state.<\/p>\n<p>Nu\u00f1ez was quoted by the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/las_cruces-news\/ci_17155666\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a> as saying he would \u201cnever become a Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In addition to stripping Nu\u00f1ez of his chairmanship and removing him from the agriculture committee, Luj\u00e1n also removed Nu\u00f1ez from the Energy Committee, instead assigning him to be a member of the Education and Transportation committees.<\/p>\n<p>Nu\u00f1ez has said he views the changes as retaliation. He was the most vocal Democrat who backed the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/01\/lujan-keeps-job-as-speaker\/\">unsuccessful, bipartisan effort<\/a> earlier this week to replace Luj\u00e1n with Rep.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HCERV\">Joseph Cervantes<\/a>, D-Las Cruces.<\/p>\n<p>Luj\u00e1n has not returned a call seeking comment on the committee changes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After losing the chairmanship of the House Agriculture and Water Resources Committee on Thursday, Rep. Andy Nunez says he might leave the Democratic Party.<\/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-25293","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\/25293","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=25293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}