Sen. @Craig4NM shed some light on what happened this morning in the Senate Tax, Business and Transportation Committee with the doctors. #nmleg
"Apparently there's some rumors going around about that ... so I think it's time to nip some of these rumors in the bud," he said.
After the committee got through its first bill, @Craig4NM said he asked for a moment of personal privilege. "I made a statement introducing our doctors and thanking them and talking about" medical malpractice.
"Our doctors stood up and clapped. That was it. That's what happened. They did not disrupt the committee. They didn't break the committee. They didn't make the committee stop," he said.
"What made the committee stop is that we couldn't get but one Democrat in the room and could not make a quorum. That was what made the committee stop," @Craig4NM said. "All four of us as Republicans were there."
"We waited for about 30 minutes as the acting chair at the time put us on a break to try to reestablish a quorum. We never could reestablish a quorum, so the committee was canceled," he said.
"The doctors didn't disrupt it. The doctors didn't force the committee to be canceled. I'd really like the rumor mill to stop," he said.
"I just want to clear that up and if the sergeant-at-arms would like to talk to me about it, I would be glad to talk to her about it," @Craig4NM. "But let's stop the rumor. Let's stop treating the doctors rudely. They have saved our lives over the last three years."

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"People go for a lot of different reasons," he said. "Well, I go there, you know, to be uplifted spiritually and I go have this private conversation with God and I ask for the courage and the strength to be a better person and to be good to my neighbors."
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