{"id":4507,"date":"2009-04-29T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/04\/rugby-is-out-sen-keller-is-doing-things-differently\/"},"modified":"2009-04-29T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T17:55:00","slug":"rugby-is-out-sen-keller-is-doing-things-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/04\/rugby-is-out-sen-keller-is-doing-things-differently\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby is out: Sen. Keller is doing things differently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SfiU2F9CnrI\/AAAAAAAALgk\/pGIjJIzPxhM\/s1600-h\/Keller,+Tim.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SfiU2F9CnrI\/AAAAAAAALgk\/pGIjJIzPxhM\/s200\/Keller,+Tim.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5330173816025030322\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SKELL\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Keller<\/a> wants you to know he\u2019s no <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetailsArchive.aspx?SponsorCode=SROBI+++++\" target=\"_blank\">Shannon Robinson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Keller, an Albuquerque Democrat who recently completed his first session, put out a news release today highlighting a big difference between him and the incumbent he unseated in last year\u2019s primary: Keller has redirected $1 million in capital outlay money Robinson had allocated for projects \u201cthat were either of tangential importance to our community, earmarked for special projects outside our district, no longer feasible or irresponsible,\u201d the release states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cTraditionally, capital outlay funds are used for community projects, schools, roads in legislator\u2019s respective districts and other projects the legislator deems important,\u201d Keller\u2019s news release states. \u201cHowever, upon investigation of historical District 17 capital outlay, approximately $1,057,000 was deemed not in line with community priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That included $656,000 Robinson had allocated for a \u201crugby field concession stand in Santa Fe,\u201d Keller\u2019s release states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So, in the session that ended last month, Keller redirected that $1 million to projects in his district including school buildings and equipment, street and lighting improvements and a veteran\u2019s integration center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI am proud to return these monies to the southeast heights community, our schools and projects important to our district,\u201d Keller said in the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Robinson took heat <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/another-lawmaker-proves-need-for-ethics.html\">on this site<\/a> and elsewhere during last year\u2019s primary for pumping taxpayer money into a college rugby club he coached and for failing to publicly disclose dozens of misdemeanor charges he has faced since 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Tim Keller wants you to know he\u2019s no Shannon Robinson. Keller, an Albuquerque Democrat who recently completed his first session, put out a news release today highlighting a big difference between him and the incumbent he unseated in last year\u2019s primary: Keller has redirected $1 million in capital outlay money Robinson had allocated for [&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-4507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507","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=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}