{"id":289498,"date":"2017-02-14T21:12:43","date_gmt":"2017-02-15T04:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=289498"},"modified":"2017-02-14T21:14:41","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T04:14:41","slug":"rep-jim-trujillo-of-santa-fe-in-denver-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2017\/02\/rep-jim-trujillo-of-santa-fe-in-denver-hospital\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Jim Trujillo of Santa Fe in Denver hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"

State Rep. Jim Trujillo, D-Santa Fe, remained in a Denver hospital Tuesday<\/span><\/span> for treatment of a heart condition. Trujillo, 77, was flown to Denver last week.<\/p>\n

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Jim Trujillo<\/p><\/div>\n

He couldn’t be reached for comment, but House Speaker Brian Egolf said Tuesday<\/span><\/span> that Trujillo is out of the intensive care unit and is “up walking and talking.”<\/p>\n

“My understanding is that he is doing well and should be out of the hospital this week,” said Egolf, D-Santa Fe. “I am not sure when he will be back in Santa Fe, but we are hoping in the next 10 days or so.”<\/p>\n

Trujillo is chairman of the House Taxation and Revenue Committee. In his absence, Egolf has appointed Rep. Carl Trujillo, D-Santa Fe, as acting chairman of that committee. Carl Trujillo is Jim Trujillo’s nephew.<\/p>\n

Jim Trujillo has been a House member since being appointed to fill a vacancy in the south-side Santa Fe district in January 2003. He has since been elected six times.<\/p>\n

This legislative session has been hard on older lawmakers from Northern New Mexico. In late January, Rep. Nick Salazar, D-Ohkay Owingeh, was treated at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center for an unspecified illness. The 87-year-old lawmaker, who has been in office since 1973, has since returned to the Capitol.<\/p>\n

And former Rep. Luciano “Lucky” Varela, a Santa Fe Democrat who retired last year after serving 30 years in the House of Representatives, was admitted in January to Christus St. Vincent’s intensive care unit, where doctors placed a stent in his heart. Varela is 81.<\/p>\n

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Contact Steve Terrell at (505) 986-3037 or sterrell@sfnewmexican.com<\/a>. Read his political blog at santafenewmexican.com\/news\/blogs\/politics<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trujillo, 77, was flown to Denver last week for treatment of a heart condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":289505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[3329,107],"class_list":["post-289498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2017-legislative-session","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289498","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=289498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}