{"id":7305,"date":"2009-10-05T14:11:20","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T20:11:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=7305"},"modified":"2009-10-06T00:49:42","modified_gmt":"2009-10-06T06:49:42","slug":"special-session-will-start-oct-17-richardson-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/10\/special-session-will-start-oct-17-richardson-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Special session will start Oct. 17, Richardson says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5368\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5368\" title=\"Richardson-2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Richardson-2-300x229.jpg\" alt=\"Gov. Bill Richardson (Photo by Heath Haussamen)\" width=\"300\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Richardson-2-300x229.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Richardson-2-336x257.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Richardson-2.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Bill Richardson (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\">Bill Richardson<\/a> announced today that the special session to deal with the state\u2019s budget shortfall will begin at noon on Oct. 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter meeting with education leaders, I am more convinced than ever that we must fight against attempts to cut school spending,\u201d Richardson said in a statement, according to The Santa Fe New Mexican\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/greenchilechatter.blogspot.com\/2009\/10\/special-session-starts-oct-17.html\">Kate Nash<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe superintendents reiterated their strong opposition to drastic cuts that some legislators have proposed,\u201d Richardson said.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers are struggling to figure out how to plug a shortfall in the current fiscal year\u2019s budget currently estimated to be $433 million. Some say the shortfall could grow to <a href=\"..\/2009\/10\/prepare-for-substantial-cuts-to-all-of-state-government\/\">as much as $700 million<\/a>. Members of Richardson\u2019s staff have been working with a group of lawmakers to try to build consensus behind a plan, but no agreement has been reached.<\/p>\n<p>Richardson is not estimating how long the session will last, Nash is reporting. The governor had originally said he wanted it to be one day, but several lawmakers and the lieutenant governor have said that\u2019s not likely.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson announced today that the special session to deal with the state\u2019s budget shortfall will begin at noon on Oct. 17.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[118,107],"class_list":["post-7305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-economy","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305","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=7305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}