{"id":9296,"date":"2009-11-12T16:03:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-12T23:03:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=9296"},"modified":"2009-11-12T16:03:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-12T23:03:40","slug":"audio-budget-crisis-%e2%80%98more-painful-than-what-it-should-have-been%e2%80%99-smith-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/11\/audio-budget-crisis-%e2%80%98more-painful-than-what-it-should-have-been%e2%80%99-smith-says\/","title":{"rendered":"AUDIO: Budget crisis \u2018more painful than what it should have been,\u2019 Smith says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9299\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Smith-John-Arthur.jpg\" alt=\"John Arthur Smith\" title=\"Smith, John Arthur\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9299\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Arthur Smith<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SSMIT\">John Arthur Smith<\/a>, D-Deming and chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, has been warning for years of an impending budget crisis. The governor and others used to say he was blowing things out of proportion, but he doesn\u2019t hear that too much anymore.<\/p>\n<p>Several journalists talked with Smith today after the governor announced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/11\/guv-plans-to-cut-jobs-and-agency-budgets-orders-furloughs\/\">the action he\u2019s taking<\/a> to address the budget crisis. Listen to Smith\u2019s remarks here, courtesy of NMPolitics.net\u2019s Peter St. Cyr:<\/p>\n<p><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"350\" \theight=\"24\" \tallowfullscreen=\"true\" \tallowscriptaccess=\"always\" \tsrc=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/flow\/flowplayer.commercial-3.0.5.swf\" \tw3c=\"true\" \tflashvars='config={\"key\":\"#$b6eb72a0f2f1e29f3d4\",\"playlist\":[{\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Sen.JohnArthurSmith\/SmithOnGuvAction.mp3\",\"autoPlay\":false}],\"clip\":{\"autoPlay\":true},\"canvas\":{\"backgroundColor\":\"0x000000\",\"backgroundGradient\":\"none\"},\"plugins\":{\"audio\":{\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/flow\/flowplayer.audio-3.0.3-dev.swf\"},\"controls\":{\"playlist\":false,\"fullscreen\":false,\"gloss\":\"high\",\"backgroundColor\":\"0x000000\",\"backgroundGradient\":\"medium\",\"sliderColor\":\"0x777777\",\"progressColor\":\"0x777777\",\"timeColor\":\"0xeeeeee\",\"durationColor\":\"0x01DAFF\",\"buttonColor\":\"0x333333\",\"buttonOverColor\":\"0x505050\"}},\"contextMenu\":[{\"Item Sen.JohnArthurSmith at archive.org\":\"function()\"},\"-\",\"Flowplayer 3.0.5\"]}'> <\/embed><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several journalists talked with Sen. John Arthur Smith, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, today after the governor announced the action he\u2019s taking to address the budget crisis. Listen to Smith\u2019s remarks here.<\/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-9296","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\/9296","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=9296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}