{"id":3990,"date":"2008-11-17T01:37:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-17T07:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/gardner-replaces-foley-as-house-minority-whip\/"},"modified":"2008-11-17T01:37:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-17T07:37:00","slug":"gardner-replaces-foley-as-house-minority-whip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/gardner-replaces-foley-as-house-minority-whip\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardner replaces Foley as House minority whip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SSEfijjAOwI\/AAAAAAAAJWk\/6_T1MV1eK1Y\/s1600-h\/Gardner,+Keith.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SSEfijjAOwI\/AAAAAAAAJWk\/6_T1MV1eK1Y\/s200\/Gardner,+Keith.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269527717518260994\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Republicans in the state House of Representatives picked <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/LCS\/legdetails.asp?Name=312\" target=\"_blank\">Keith Gardner<\/a> to be their new minority whip this weekend.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">With that move, they replaced one Roswell politico &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=190&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Foley<\/a>, who lost his primary race in June &#8212; with another. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roswell-record.com\/main.asp?SectionID=49&amp;SubSectionID=112&amp;ArticleID=34906\" target=\"_blank\">Roswell Daily Record<\/a> reported that Gardner beat another House Republican to win the two-year term as the caucus\u2019 whip, but the opponent\u2019s name and the vote tally was not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">During the Saturday meeting in Albuquerque, the GOP caucus decided to keep <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=233\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Taylor<\/a> of Farmington as its minority leader and <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=189\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Crook<\/a> of Clovis as its caucus chair.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">House Republicans are turning their focus to the economy, announcing in a news release about the election of the leaders that they are preparing for what Taylor called \u201cserious budgeting challenges\u201d in the coming session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Gardner, who has held his seat since 2004, said in the release that, \u201cduring these difficult times, I am honored and humbled to have earned the support of my colleagues for this leadership position.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cLike most families and small businesses across New Mexico, we at the Legislature are going to have to focus on cost-cutting to pull through this,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans in the state House of Representatives picked Keith Gardner to be their new minority whip this weekend. With that move, they replaced one Roswell politico &#8212; Dan Foley, who lost his primary race in June &#8212; with another. The Roswell Daily Record reported that Gardner beat another House Republican to win the two-year term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990","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=3990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}