{"id":12450,"date":"2010-02-02T12:47:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T19:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=12450"},"modified":"2010-02-02T12:47:31","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T19:47:31","slug":"former-dona-ana-county-official-running-for-state-treasurer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/02\/former-dona-ana-county-official-running-for-state-treasurer\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Do\u00f1a Ana County official running for state treasurer"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12451\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12451\" title=\"Schoonover, Jim\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Schoonover-Jim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Schoonover<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former Do\u00f1a Ana County Treasurer Jim Schoonover, a Republican, is collecting signatures to run for state treasurer.<\/p>\n<p>Schoonover is the only Republican known to be planning to run against Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jamesblewis.net\/\">James Lewis<\/a> this year. The state Republican Party\u2019s spokeswoman said the GOP is excited about Schoonover\u2019s candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe believe Jim\u2019s going to be a strong candidate and are excited that he\u2019s going to be jumping into the race,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Reached by phone, Schoonover said he would be ready to talk about his candidacy \u201cin a couple of days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schoonover served one term as county treasurer but lost his re-election bid in 2008 to Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donaanacounty.org\/treasurer\/\">David Gutierrez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Schoonover\u2019s tenure was not without controversy. The county commission voted 4-1 in 2007 to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/02\/commission-formally-censures-treasurer-demands-restitution-for-illegal-use-of-county-resources\/\">formally reprimand him<\/a> for illegally using county staff and equipment to benefit the Elks Lodge and other issues. The commission also demanded that he reimburse the county $1,500.<\/p>\n<p>He also came under fire for purchasing 2,300 pencils with $700 in public money that were <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/county-treasurer-accused-of-several-improprieties\/\">similar to his campaign \u00a0materials<\/a> \u2013 money he later repaid to the county.<\/p>\n<p>And after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?s=burpo\">questions were raised<\/a> about county investments, the commission <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/07\/county-commission-creates-investment-committee\/\">created an investment committee<\/a> to keep a closer eye on the treasurer\u2019s office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Do\u00f1a Ana County Treasurer Jim Schoonover, a Republican, is collecting signatures to run for state treasurer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[108,115,107],"class_list":["post-12450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-dona-ana-county","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12450","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=12450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}