{"id":959,"date":"2006-12-06T14:26:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-06T20:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/12\/papen-wants-consistent-use-of-seniority-in-senate\/"},"modified":"2006-12-06T14:26:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-06T20:26:00","slug":"papen-wants-consistent-use-of-seniority-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/12\/papen-wants-consistent-use-of-seniority-in-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Papen wants consistent use of seniority in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RXcn7YuEyZI\/AAAAAAAAACE\/hNL16y0qmZk\/s1600-h\/Papen,+Mary+Kay.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RXcn7YuEyZI\/AAAAAAAAACE\/hNL16y0qmZk\/s200\/Papen,+Mary+Kay.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5005513412047063442\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Sen. Mary Kay Papen of <st1:city st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:city> spoke with me today about the news that Senate leaders are proposing putting Tim Jennings of <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Roswell<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> in charge of the Finance Committee instead of John Arthur Smith of Deming, its current vice chair.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The position is open because of the retirement of Joe Fidel of Grants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Jennings<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> has more seniority than Smith, and Senate President Pro Tem Ben Altimirano is citing seniority as the criteria for committee assignments this year. Papen has been a close ally of Smith, but has also worked well with <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Jennings<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It\u2019s been suggested that Smith might chair the Education Committee. That could bump either Cynthia Nava of <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, that committee\u2019s current chair, or Papen, the vice chair, from committee leadership.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWhat I\u2019m hoping is that, however this works out, it is a fair process and that it is a consistent process,\u201d Papen said. \u201cIf we\u2019re going to use seniority, I want it to be consistent.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Mary Kay Papen of Las Cruces spoke with me today about the news that Senate leaders are proposing putting Tim Jennings of Roswell in charge of the Finance Committee instead of John Arthur Smith of Deming, its current vice chair. The position is open because of the retirement of Joe Fidel of Grants. Jennings [&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-959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959","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=959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}