{"id":4394,"date":"2009-03-21T22:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-22T04:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/public-confrontation-colors-end-of-session\/"},"modified":"2009-03-21T22:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-22T04:35:00","slug":"public-confrontation-colors-end-of-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/public-confrontation-colors-end-of-session\/","title":{"rendered":"Public confrontation colors end of session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/ScXASsAGEFI\/AAAAAAAALPw\/G9fCIuVyFvA\/s1600-h\/2009Legislature.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 100px; height: 150px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/ScXASsAGEFI\/AAAAAAAALPw\/G9fCIuVyFvA\/s200\/2009Legislature.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5315866362462474322\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The talk among the state\u2019s politicos is of a very public confrontation between House Speaker <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HLUJA\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Lujan<\/a> and Senate Finance Chairman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SSMIT\" target=\"_blank\">John Arthur Smith<\/a> that occurred moments after the legislative session ended earlier today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In fact, the confrontation on the Senate floor was so public that it was witnessed by a number of other lawmakers and recorded by two journalists who were interviewing Smith when Lujan arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Want to know more? Click <a href=\"http:\/\/newmexicoindependent.com\/23010\/house-speaker-lujan-calls-sen-smith-racist-for-questioning-amendment\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to read about it from the New Mexico Independent and <a href=\"http:\/\/greenchilechatter.blogspot.com\/2009\/03\/done-done-and-done.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> from The Santa Fe New Mexican\u2019s Kate Nash. If profanity offends you, you might not want to click on the links. Both take you to articles that include audio recordings of the exchange.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The talk among the state\u2019s politicos is of a very public confrontation between House Speaker Ben Lujan and Senate Finance Chairman John Arthur Smith that occurred moments after the legislative session ended earlier today. In fact, the confrontation on the Senate floor was so public that it was witnessed by a number of other lawmakers [&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-4394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394","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=4394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}