{"id":4016,"date":"2008-11-23T23:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T05:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/no-leadership-changes-for-house-democrats\/"},"modified":"2008-11-23T23:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T05:27:00","slug":"no-leadership-changes-for-house-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/no-leadership-changes-for-house-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"No leadership changes for House Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SSo7j8EoLDI\/AAAAAAAAJZ0\/bTe2g7wx55U\/s1600-h\/Stapleton,+Sheryl.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SSo7j8EoLDI\/AAAAAAAAJZ0\/bTe2g7wx55U\/s200\/Stapleton,+Sheryl.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5272091802397584434\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>House Democrats decided on Sunday to keep <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HSTAP\" target=\"_blank\">Sheryl Williams Stapleton<\/a> of Albuquerque as their whip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">She staved off a challenge from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HGART\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Garcia<\/a> of Ocate, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. The vote tally wasn\u2019t made public or released to caucus members.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Stapleton was the only leader challenged, which means Speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HLUJA\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Lujan<\/a> of Nambe, Majority Leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HMART\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Martinez<\/a> of Grants and caucus Chair <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HHEAT\" target=\"_blank\">John Heaton<\/a> of Carlsbad were elected on Sunday to continue in their leadership positions for another two years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats decided on Sunday to keep Sheryl Williams Stapleton of Albuquerque as their whip. She staved off a challenge from Thomas Garcia of Ocate, according to sources with knowledge of the situation. The vote tally wasn\u2019t made public or released to caucus members. Stapleton was the only leader challenged, which means Speaker Ben Lujan [&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-4016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016","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=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}