{"id":1142,"date":"2007-01-23T11:07:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-23T17:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/chavez-raising-cash-for-possible-gubernatorial-run\/"},"modified":"2007-01-23T11:07:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T17:07:00","slug":"chavez-raising-cash-for-possible-gubernatorial-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/chavez-raising-cash-for-possible-gubernatorial-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Ch\u00e1vez raising cash for possible gubernatorial run"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>If you think the 2008 presidential race is off to a fast start, what you should be watching is the 2010 New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> gubernatorial race. <\/p>\n

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Lt. Gov. Diane Denish has already announced<\/a> her intention to run in 2010, and made clear that she\u2019s ready to step in before that if Gov. Bill Richardson takes a job in Washington<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n

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Now comes the news, reported in today\u2019s Albuquerque Journal<\/a>, that Albuquerque Mayor Martin Ch\u00e1vez has filed paperwork to form the \u201cMarty Ch\u00e1vez for New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>\u201d committee and is having an \u201cexploratory kickoff event\u201d next week that costs $2,000 to attend.<\/p>\n

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Ch\u00e1vez, who like Denish is a Democrat, told the Journal that 2010 is far away and he isn\u2019t certain he\u2019ll run for governor \u2013 he might instead seek re-election to his current job \u2013 but Denish\u2019s early entry in the race has forced him to start raising money so he can keep up.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m opening doors,\u201d Ch\u00e1vez told the Journal. \u201cI love the job I have. I\u2019m not precluding running for re-election, but clearly the season is starting a little earlier this year, given the lieutenant governor\u2019s declaration and the fact that she\u2019s aggressively raising money.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Next week\u2019s Ch\u00e1vez fundraiser will be hosted by former U.S. Ambassador to Spain Ed Romero and his wife, but Romero said that doesn\u2019t mean he is picking sides.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThis means that I\u2019m just accommodating a friend, OK?\u201d the Journal quoted him as saying.<\/p>\n

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Ch\u00e1vez is in his third term as Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> mayor. He ran unsuccessfully against former Gov. Gary Johnson in 1998, with Denish as his running mate.<\/p>\n

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By the end of 2006, Denish had already raised $1 million for her 2010 gubernatorial campaign, the Journal reported.<\/p>\n

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Former Attorney General Patricia Madrid has said she might run for governor in 2010, further crowding the field of potential Democratic contenders. State Rep. Joseph Cervantes, D-Las Cruces, has also been mentioned as a possible candidate.<\/p>\n

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On the Republican side, politicos mentioned as possible gubernatorial candidates include U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, Do\u00f1a Ana County District Attorney Susana Martinez and Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you think the 2008 presidential race is off to a fast start, what you should be watching is the 2010 New Mexico gubernatorial race. Lt. Gov. Diane Denish has already announced her intention to run in 2010, and made clear that she\u2019s ready to step in before that if Gov. Bill Richardson takes a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}