{"id":4404,"date":"2009-03-25T14:39:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T20:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/guv-to-sign-veterans-museum-bill-in-las-cruces\/"},"modified":"2009-03-25T14:39:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T20:39:00","slug":"guv-to-sign-veterans-museum-bill-in-las-cruces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/03\/guv-to-sign-veterans-museum-bill-in-las-cruces\/","title":{"rendered":"Guv to sign veteran’s museum bill in Las Cruces"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Gov. Bill Richardson<\/a> will be in Las Cruces on Friday to sign a bill that would create a state veteran\u2019s museum and establish Las Cruces as its home.<\/p>\n

Richardson will sign House Bill 59<\/a>, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Steinborn<\/a>, D-Las Cruces, during a ceremony at the Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum<\/a>. The event is scheduled to begin at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n

The governor also plans to spend two hours — from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. — holding five-minute meetings about legislation with state residents at his Las Cruces satellite office, which is located at the museum. The meetings are on a first-come, first-served basis. Those who want to meet with the governor must present a valid New Mexico driver\u2019s license and have the name and number of the bill they want to talk about.<\/p>\n

They can check in at the information desk at the museum.<\/p>\n

The veteran\u2019s museum proposal passed the Legislature for the first time in 2008, with Richardson supporting it and two of his cabinet secretaries testifying on its behalf. But a controversy ensued<\/a> when Richardson vetoed that bill after its Republican sponsor — Leonard Lee Rawson<\/a> of Las Cruces — became Richardson\u2019s most vocal critic on other issues during the 2008 session.<\/p>\n

Richardson then convened a task force<\/a> to decide on the best location for the museum. His task force reiterated what was in the 2008 bill — that Las Cruces was the best spot. Richardson agreed with the task force\u2019s recommendation last fall.<\/p>\n

The Legislature easily approved the bill in the session that ended on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gov. Bill Richardson will be in Las Cruces on Friday to sign a bill that would create a state veteran\u2019s museum and establish Las Cruces as its home. Richardson will sign House Bill 59, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Steinborn, D-Las Cruces, during a ceremony at the Farm and Ranch Heritage Museum. The event is scheduled […]<\/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-4404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404","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=4404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}