Gil Jones
In an article that ran Sunday, the Las Cruces Sun-News incorrectly identified Gil Jones, the Las Cruces District 5 city councilor, as a Republican.
Jones is up for re-election in Tuesday’s contest, which is non-partisan in that the party affiliations of each candidate do not appear on the ballot. But in a city in which Republicans have lost election after election in recent years, such a mistake by the primary newspaper has the potential to affect a contest that’s expected to be close – especially since Jones has been telling people, when asked, that he’s a registered Democrat.
“I’m a conservative Democrat,” Jones said Sunday. “I’ve never been a Republican.”
Jones said he was registered as an independent for a time when he was 18, but he’s spent “virtually my whole life” as a Democrat.
The Sun-News corrected its error today. The error has also been corrected in the online version of the article.
Jones is being challenged by Gill M. Sorg, who is also a Democrat.