{"id":37381,"date":"2012-02-29T09:02:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T16:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=37381"},"modified":"2012-02-29T09:05:28","modified_gmt":"2012-02-29T16:05:28","slug":"profile-calls-nunez-unlikely-poster-child-for-a-rising-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/02\/profile-calls-nunez-unlikely-poster-child-for-a-rising-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile calls Nu\u00f1ez \u2018unlikely poster child for a rising right\u2019"},"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=\"Rep. Andy Nu\u00f1ez, I-Hatch\" width=\"250\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rep. Andy Nu\u00f1ez, I-Hatch<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The Santa Fe Reporter says Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HNUNE\" target=\"_blank\">Andy Nu\u00f1ez<\/a> has become \u201cthe unlikely poster child for a rising right\u201d in New Mexico politics.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s from a recent profile of the only registered independent in the House, the former Democrat from Hatch. You can read the profile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfreporter.com\/santafe\/article-6588-roundhouse-cowboy.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The core of the article is this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201c(House Speaker Ben) Luj\u00e1n\u2019s coming retirement marks the declining dominance of northern Democrats in state politics; conservatives from agricultural, oil-and-gas-dominated southern New Mexico are positioning themselves for greater influence. As a former Democrat turned independent and the champion of an effort to repeal the state law allowing foreign nationals to obtain driver\u2019s licenses, Nu\u00f1ez has become the unlikely poster child for a rising right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut like Luj\u00e1n, he\u2019s also a vestige of times past, when politics had more to do with internal compromise than with super PACs and robocalls. Through the combination of his stubborn individualism and conservative appeal, Nu\u00f1ez embodies both the end of one political era and the beginning of another for New Mexico.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfreporter.com\/santafe\/article-6588-roundhouse-cowboy.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Santa Fe Reporter says Rep. Andy Nu\u00f1ez is \u201cthe unlikely poster child for a rising right\u201d in N.M. politics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-37381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37381","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=37381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}