Session Ends With Work Undone

Michael Sanchez



NMPolitics - The first 2011 special session of the New Mexico Legislature ended Saturday with no deals on at least most redistricting plans and a looming court battle. Lawmakers failed to even pass a plan for congressional redistricting after a handful of Southern New Mexico Democrats in the House refused to go with their party’s plan that would have essentially abandoned the southern 2nd Congressional District to Republicans.

Ben Lujan

Without the votes to pass the plan most House Democrats wanted, the House adjourned Saturday without approving a congressional redistricting plan. That came after the Senate passed its own congressional redistricting plan – one the southern Democrats in the House opposed – and adjourned earlier Saturday. Lawmakers did pass redistricting plans for state House and Senate seats on party-line votes, but they did so with pledges of vetoes from Gov. Susana Martinez. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Session Ends With Work Undone