{"id":6959,"date":"2014-02-10T16:15:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T16:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/02\/10\/nm-senate-panel-to-examine-fairgrounds-casino-deal\/"},"modified":"2014-02-10T16:15:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T16:15:44","slug":"nm-senate-panel-to-examine-fairgrounds-casino-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/2014\/02\/10\/nm-senate-panel-to-examine-fairgrounds-casino-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"NM Senate panel to examine fairgrounds casino deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Original Post Content --><br \/>\nSANTA FE, N.M. (AP) \u2013 A Senate committee plans to take a look at operations of the State Fair and the award of a 25-year lease by Republican Gov. Susana Martinez\u2019s administration to a racetrack company to build a larger casino at the fairgrounds.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe Senate Rules Committee is scheduled Monday to hear from former State Fair Commissioner Charlotte Rode, who has spoken out against the handling of the 2011 lease that allowed the construction of the larger casino by the Downs at Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<p>\tMartinez critics contend the lease was rushed through to benefit Martinez political supporters. However, the governor\u2019s office has said political contributions didn\u2019t influence decisions on the fairgrounds lease.<\/p>\n<p>\tThe committee chairwoman is Sen. Linda Lopez of Albuquerque, who is among five Democrats running for governor against Martinez this week.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>Replies:<\/h3>\n<p>No replies were posted for this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) \u2013 A Senate committee plans to take a look at operations of the State Fair and the award of a 25-year lease by Republican Gov. Susana Martinez\u2019s administration to a racetrack company to build a larger&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latest-casino-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6959\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumarchives.tmsites.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}