{"id":4385,"date":"2009-03-21T00:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T06:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/one-suncal-tidd-bill-fails-future-uncertain\/"},"modified":"2009-03-21T00:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T06:42:00","slug":"one-suncal-tidd-bill-fails-future-uncertain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/one-suncal-tidd-bill-fails-future-uncertain\/","title":{"rendered":"One SunCal TIDD bill fails; future uncertain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This article has been updated for clarity.<\/span><\/p>\n

A proposal to provide a controversial method of public financing for an Albuquerque development failed twice on tie votes in the House tonight despite a huge lobbying effort.<\/p>\n

The first 33-33 tie vote that left Senate Bill 249<\/a> dead on the floor shocked both supporters and opponents of the tax increment development district (TIDD) proposal. When a motion to reconsider was brought up moments later and also failed on a 33-33 vote (with some members changing their votes), jaws dropped even further.<\/p>\n

Only one motion to reconsider is allowed, so the bill, which would provide some $408 million for the west-side SunCal<\/a> development, is effectively dead.<\/p>\n

But that doesn\u2019t mean the SunCal TIDD is dead. Though the Senate bill, sponsored by Linda Lopez<\/a>, D-Albuquerque, can\u2019t be brought up for another vote, supporters of the TIDD made sure there was a second bill, just in case. It\u2019s House Bill 470<\/a>, sponsored by Ed Sandoval<\/a>, D-Albuquerque.<\/p>\n

Whether that bill will be brought up for a vote is not immediately clear. In addition to needing to pass the House, it would also need to pass the Senate. The session ends at noon.<\/p>\n

The vote on SB 249 followed hours of debate on the controversial proposal. SunCal hired a dream team of lobbyists and covered the state in advertising to promote the TIDD proposal.<\/p>\n

Locally, two representatives\u2019 votes — or lack thereof — on SB 249 were noteworthy. Rep. Joni Gutierrez<\/a>, D-Mesilla, didn\u2019t vote the first time but voted for the unsuccessful motion to reconsider the bill the second time. And Rep. Nate Cote<\/a>, D-Las Cruces, voted against the bill the first time but didn\u2019t vote the second time on the motion to reconsider.<\/p>\n

Cote, reached by cell phone after the vote, said he didn\u2019t take a walk because of political pressure between votes. He has a contractual obligation to teach a course at Fort Bliss in El Paso at 8 a.m., he said, and he had to leave.<\/p>\n

That fact, Cote said, was known for weeks. He stuck around until midnight so he could vote on the SunCal TIDD bill, he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI did not take a walk. I\u2019m entering Albuquerque now and I\u2019ve got a long drive ahead of me,\u201d Cote said at 12:30 a.m. \u201cHad I known what was going to occur, I would have stayed longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

In 2008, the SunCal TIDD proposal died on a filibuster in the Senate as the session expired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article has been updated for clarity. A proposal to provide a controversial method of public financing for an Albuquerque development failed twice on tie votes in the House tonight despite a huge lobbying effort. The first 33-33 tie vote that left Senate Bill 249 dead on the floor shocked both supporters and opponents of […]<\/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-4385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385","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=4385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}