{"id":37912,"date":"2012-03-14T12:13:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T18:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=37912"},"modified":"2012-03-15T07:04:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-15T13:04:14","slug":"martinez-wants-to-voters-to-weigh-in-on-legislative-pensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/03\/martinez-wants-to-voters-to-weigh-in-on-legislative-pensions\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinez wants voters to weigh in on legislative pensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12657\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-12657 \" title=\"Martinez-Susana-300x263\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Martinez-Susana-300x2631.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Susana Martinez\" width=\"270\" height=\"237\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Susana Martinez<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\" target=\"_blank\">Susana Martinez<\/a> supports a proposed constitutional amendment that would let voters decide whether state lawmakers should continue receiving retirement benefits, the Albuquerque Journal is reporting.<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2012\/03\/14\/news\/governor-wants-ban-on-pensions-for-legislators.html\" target=\"_blank\">the article<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cGov. Susana Martinez supports a constitutional amendment \u2013 which would have to be approved by voters \u2013 to kill the retirement program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018Given the generosity of these legislative pensions, and the significant expansion of these benefits throughout the years, I believe that voters should have the chance to weigh in on this important issue and evaluate the appropriateness of these pension benefits,\u2019 Martinez said last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe governor made the comments while signing into law a bill to increase from $500 to $600 the annual amount that each legislator must contribute to the retirement plan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I am signing this bill based on my conviction that legislative member contributions are woefully inadequate in comparison to the taxpayer-funded benefits they generate,\u2019 Martinez said.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2012\/03\/14\/news\/governor-wants-ban-on-pensions-for-legislators.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Susana Martinez supports a proposed constitutional amendment that would let voters decide whether state lawmakers should continue receiving retirement benefits, the Albuquerque Journal is reporting.<\/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-37912","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\/37912","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=37912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}