{"id":4186,"date":"2009-01-29T11:21:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-29T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/01\/a-great-article-on-nms-freshmen-in-d-c\/"},"modified":"2009-01-29T11:21:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T17:21:00","slug":"a-great-article-on-nms-freshmen-in-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/01\/a-great-article-on-nms-freshmen-in-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"A great article on NM’s freshmen in D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"

Want to see how New Mexico\u2019s three new members of the U.S. House are settling in? Check out today\u2019s fantastic article from Gwyneth Doland of the New Mexico Independent<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The article is packed with interesting observations and blunt, witty commentary. Check out this portion from her interview with the 3rd District\u2019s Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is a quick thinker, adept at responding to questions with answers that sound as polished as those in his press releases. Unfortunately, that means he\u2019s also hard to quote \u2026 because everything he says sounds like a press release,\u201d Doland wrote. \u201cConsider this: I ask him, \u2018Would you consider yourself more of a delegater or a micro-manager?\u2019 And without blinking or taking a breath, he says, \u2018Well, I would say I\u2019m a team player! We do things together and I encourage ideas \u2026 (I say) let\u2019s think outside the box and let\u2019s do it together.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Many journalists would have just quoted Luj\u00e1n as saying he\u2019s a team player and left it at that. But that would have made for a boring article. Doland makes her interview with the congressman come to life and gives us a sense of what it was like to talk to him.<\/p>\n

And I love this portion about the 2nd District\u2019s Harry Teague<\/a>, who Doland labels \u201cMr. Congeniality:\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHe founded a business with Johnny Cope<\/a>, the chairman of the New Mexico Transportation Commission and a prominent Richardson supporter<\/a>,\u201d Doland wrote. \u201cTeague says his relationship with Cope makes for a pleasant synergy with the congressman\u2019s new place on the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee (I\u2019m paraphrasing here; I\u2019m sure Teague would never use a Dilbert-y word like \u2018synergy.\u2019) And there\u2019s Gov. Bill Richardson, who owes Teague a few favors (and a bunch of money<\/a>) for lending out his corporate jet during Richardson\u2019s presidential campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

A Dilbert-y word? What a great description.<\/p>\n

This article is definitely worth your time. Click here<\/a> to read it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Want to see how New Mexico\u2019s three new members of the U.S. House are settling in? Check out today\u2019s fantastic article from Gwyneth Doland of the New Mexico Independent. The article is packed with interesting observations and blunt, witty commentary. Check out this portion from her interview with the 3rd District\u2019s Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n: \u201cHe […]<\/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-4186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186","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=4186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}