{"id":1248,"date":"2007-02-12T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-12T15:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/02\/longtime-county-treasurer-clerk-dead-at-81\/"},"modified":"2007-02-12T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-12T15:39:00","slug":"longtime-county-treasurer-clerk-dead-at-81","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/02\/longtime-county-treasurer-clerk-dead-at-81\/","title":{"rendered":"Longtime county treasurer, clerk dead at 81"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A longtime <st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename> treasurer and clerk died Thursday in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las   Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Delia Garcia Barncastle, who remained active in the Republican Party even after she left office in 1998, died after a long illness, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/news\/ci_5199126?source=email\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a> reported. She was 81.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Barncastle served as treasurer from 1969 to 1972 and 1989 to 1994, and was clerk from 1977 to 1980, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cShe worked long and hard,\u201d current Clerk Rita Torres told the newspaper. \u201cIt was impressive that she could handle so many tasks and implement so many things in the treasurer\u2019s office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Barncastle, the newspaper reported, was nicknamed \u201cLandslide Lil\u201d for her ability to win elections by huge margins \u2013 a rarity for a Republican in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename>  <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Barncastle also worked for several years for Sen. Pete Domenici and former Rep. Joe Skeen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI am saddened by Delia\u2019s death,\u201d Domenici told the newspaper. \u201cShe faithfully served me in my early years as senator, and I have always been deeply appreciative of her efforts on my behalf and on behalf of the people of <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename>  <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A longtime Do\u00f1a Ana County treasurer and clerk died Thursday in Las Cruces. Delia Garcia Barncastle, who remained active in the Republican Party even after she left office in 1998, died after a long illness, the Las Cruces Sun-News reported. She was 81. Barncastle served as treasurer from 1969 to 1972 and 1989 to 1994, [&hellip;]<\/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-1248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248","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=1248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}