{"id":14569,"date":"2010-03-15T10:34:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=14569"},"modified":"2010-03-15T10:34:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T17:34:54","slug":"jones-staying-in-land-commissioner-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/03\/jones-staying-in-land-commissioner-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones staying in land commissioner race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14570\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14570\" title=\"Jones, Sandy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Jones-Sandy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sandy Jones<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Democratic Land Commissioner candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonesforlandcommissioner.com\/\">Sandy Jones<\/a> says he\u2019s staying in the race even though he didn\u2019t get 20 percent at the party\u2019s preprimary nominating convention on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiterally two minutes after the results came in we were getting phone calls,\u201d Jones said. \u201cWe\u2019re in. We got inundated with people calling and telling us to make sure we stayed in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jones said he\u2019ll have the necessary signatures to stay in the race \u201cin the next couple of days.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/raypowell4land.com\/\">Ray Powell<\/a> easily won the land commissioner vote at the convention, winning the support of 44.43 percent of delegates. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montoya2010.com\/index.html\">Harry Montoya<\/a> came in second at 19.32 percent, while Jones finished third at 18.64 percent and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikeanaya.org\/index.html\">Mike Anaya<\/a> came in fourth at 17.61 percent.<\/p>\n<p>By law, those who fail to get 20 percent at the convention have to collect twice as many signatures as those who do get 20 percent if they want to appear on the ballot. And no candidate who has failed the organizational test of getting 20 percent at the convention has gone on to win the primary.<\/p>\n<p>Jones doesn\u2019t sound intimidated by that fact, pointing out that Powell won the Democratic Party\u2019s convention in 2006 and went on to lose the land commissioner primary to Jim Baca.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of the calls that we got last night, not many people thought Ray could win this thing,\u201d Jones said. \u201cThere are people who weren\u2019t really actively supporting us (before) who climbed on board last night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Montoya and Anaya haven\u2019t yet announced their plans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Land Commissioner candidate Sandy Jones says he\u2019s staying in the race even though he didn\u2019t get 20 percent at the party\u2019s preprimary nominating convention on Saturday.<\/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-14569","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\/14569","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=14569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}