{"id":10952,"date":"2010-01-07T09:19:56","date_gmt":"2010-01-07T16:19:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=10952"},"modified":"2010-01-07T19:45:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-08T02:45:37","slug":"domenici-jr-may-run-for-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/01\/domenici-jr-may-run-for-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Domenici Jr. may run for governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8030\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8030\" title=\"Roundhouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Roundhouse-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"The Roundhouse in Santa Fe (Photo by Peter St. Cyr)\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Roundhouse-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Roundhouse-336x252.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Roundhouse.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Roundhouse in Santa Fe (Photo by Peter St. Cyr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Pete Domenici Jr. &#8212; the 50- year-old son of retired U.S. Sen.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pete_Domenici\">Pete Domenici<\/a> &#8212; is seriously considering running for governor, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/072254213632newsstate01-07-10.htm\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a> is reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Domenici, who like his father is a Republican,\u00a0has been &#8220;contemplating a run since before the holiday season,&#8221; the Journal article states.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m looking very seriously at it,&#8221; the Journal quoted him as saying. &#8220;I&#8217;m going to make my decision in a few days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.domenicilaw.com\/\">Domenici<\/a>, an environmental and natural resources lawyer\u00a0\u00a0in Albuquerque, would become the fifth Republican in the 2010 race. He has not run for office before and, according to the Journal,\u00a0has not formed a campaign exploratory committee or rasied any money for the possible race.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_10963\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10963\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/peterjr1.bmp\" alt=\"Pete Domenci Jr \" width=\"200\" height=\"160\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pete Domenici Jr.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The other Republicans in the race are Albuquerque business owners\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.allenweh2010.com\/\">Allen Weh <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/turnerforgovernor.com\/\">Doug Turner<\/a>, state Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/janiceforgovernor.com\/\">Janice Arnold-Jones<\/a> of Albuquerque and Do\u00f1a Ana CountyDistrict Attorney <a href=\" susana Martinez governorTogether, we can make\">Susana Martinez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Gov.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianedenish.com\/multimedia\/video?id=0004\">Diane Denish<\/a>, a Democrat, is running unopposed &#8212; at least at this point &#8212; in her party&#8217;s primary.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update, 7:45 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scott Forrester, executive director of the Democratic Party of New Mexico, issued this statement:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFor Democrats, there is no question \u2013 we\u2019re united behind\u00a0Diane Denish because she is out there fighting for New Mexican families, helping small businesses create jobs and taking on the special interests.\u00a0Given that the current Republican candidates for governor haven\u2019t given New Mexicans a reason to be excited or inspired, it\u2019s not surprising to hear that party bosses are scrambling for alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Political insiders may enjoy these games of \u2018guess who\u2019, but the people of\u00a0New Mexico deserve a governor who is unquestionably ready to lead, and that\u2019s Diane Denish.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pete Domenici Jr. &#8212; the 50- year-old son of retired U.S. Senator Pete Domenici &#8212; is seriously considering running for governor, the Albuquerque Journal is reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[108,107],"class_list":["post-10952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}