{"id":9507,"date":"2009-11-18T12:11:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-18T19:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=9507"},"modified":"2009-11-18T12:11:16","modified_gmt":"2009-11-18T19:11:16","slug":"lyons-calls-guv%e2%80%99s-furlough-proposal-%e2%80%98cruel%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/11\/lyons-calls-guv%e2%80%99s-furlough-proposal-%e2%80%98cruel%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyons calls guv\u2019s furlough proposal \u2018cruel\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8327\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8327\" title=\"Lyons, Pat 2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Lyons-Pat-2.jpg\" alt=\"Patrick Lyons\" width=\"250\" height=\"210\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Patrick Lyons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\">Bill Richardson<\/a> puts forward a plan to furlough state workers for five days <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krqe.com\/dpp\/news\/politics\/furloughs-likely-for-nm-agencies\">over the holidays<\/a> and into next year, state Land Commissioner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmstatelands.org\/default.aspx?PageID=2\">Patrick Lyons<\/a> says his own smart fiscal decisions mean he doesn\u2019t have to do the same thing in his office.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(Richardson\u2019s) plan won\u2019t hurt the political appointees who take home over $100,000 a year, but the classified employees who earn a fraction of that will feel the crunch, especially around the holiday season,\u201d Lyons said in a news release blasting the governor. \u201cIt\u2019s cruel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s the governor\u2019s reckless\u00a0fiscal policy\u00a0that got us into this mess, and now state employees are expected to bail him out,\u201d Lyons said.<\/p>\n<p>Lyons pointed to his own, self-described \u201cconservative spending habits\u201d in the news release \u201cas the reason his employees won\u2019t go without this holiday season.\u201d From the release:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring his seven-year tenure as land commissioner, the Land Office has generated a record $3 billion for the trust beneficiaries; he has consistently requested a flat budget of $13 million; reverted $5.85 million in unspent budgeted monies; reduced staff by four full time equivalents (FTEs); and not paid any employee more than $100,000 annually.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Richardson can only furlough employees under his control by executive order, so his plan will not affect employees who work for other elected officials and the legislative and judicial branches of government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While Gov. Bill Richardson puts forward a plan to furlough state workers for five days over the holidays and into next year, state Land Commissioner Patrick Lyons says his own smart fiscal decisions mean he doesn\u2019t have to do the same thing in his office.<\/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-9507","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\/9507","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=9507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}