{"id":30787,"date":"2011-07-29T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=30787"},"modified":"2015-04-15T22:57:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-16T04:57:45","slug":"haussamen-named-one-of-politicos-50-to-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/07\/haussamen-named-one-of-politicos-50-to-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Haussamen named one of Politico\u2019s \u201850 to watch\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_30788\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-30788 \" title=\"Heath horizontal\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Heath-horizontal2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"256\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heath Haussamen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The well-read D.C. publication <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Politico<\/a> has named me one of 50 politicos across the nation\u00a0 \u201cwho will be a force to reckon with in the 2012 cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Those selected include consultants, fundraisers, candidates, television personalities, tweeters and four bloggers. I\u2019m one of the four.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStarting an all-politics website five years ago was not without risk for Heath Haussamen. Frustrated by budget cuts and what he calls \u2018the dumbing down of news,\u2019 he quit his newspaper job at the Las Cruces Sun-News in New Mexico with no real sense of whether the online venture would succeed,\u201d a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0711\/59954_Page2.html\" target=\"_blank\">Politico article about me<\/a> states.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNow NMPolitics.net \u2013 supported by advertising and donations \u2013 stands out in the Land of Enchantment for its smart, nonpartisan political coverage and analysis,\u201d it states. \u201cHaussamen still runs the multilayered site on his own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn 2008, he traversed the state covering the presidential race and gained a reputation for thoroughness and speed,\u201d the article states. \u201cExpect more of that in 2012, as the increasingly diverse state hosts open Senate and House contests, in addition to the presidential race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Politico says its intent with the \u201c50 politicos to watch\u201d feature was to take a look \u201cat the new generation of candidates, bloggers, fundraisers, consultants and media standouts who will be a force to reckon with in the 2012 cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can read Politico\u2019s article about the four bloggers it selected <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0711\/59954.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and find the homepage for its \u201c50 politicos to watch\u201d feature <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/50-politicos-to-watch-2011\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can learn more about me by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/haussamen\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and about NMPolitics.net <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The well-read D.C. publication has named Haussamen one of 50 politicos across the nation \u201cwho will be a force to reckon with in the 2012 cycle.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41791,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[134,137,116],"class_list":["post-30787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-media","tag-news-about-this-site","tag-washington","prominence-footer-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30787","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=30787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}