{"id":13983,"date":"2010-03-02T11:07:23","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T18:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=13983"},"modified":"2010-03-02T23:35:13","modified_gmt":"2010-03-03T06:35:13","slug":"state-elections-director-resigns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/03\/state-elections-director-resigns\/","title":{"rendered":"State elections director resigns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With three months to go before the June primary, the state\u2019s elections director has resigned.<\/p>\n<p>A.J. Salazar resigned from the job as the state\u2019s top elections officer Friday, effectively immediately, according to James Flores, spokesman for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.nm.us\/\">Secretary of State\u2019s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no other information to offer at this time,\u201d Flores said.<\/p>\n<p>Salazar was hired <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/04\/santa-fe-lawyer-is-new-state-elections-director\/\">in April 2009<\/a> for a job that paid him an annual salary of $95,000.In addition to overseeing elections, his duties included concentrating on the 2010 census, redistricting of precinct boundaries, administrative rules and various other policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With three months to go before the June primary, the state\u2019s elections director has resigned.<\/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":[108,107],"class_list":["post-13983","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\/13983","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=13983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}