{"id":14577,"date":"2010-03-15T11:52:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T18:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=14577"},"modified":"2010-03-15T11:52:18","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T18:52:18","slug":"montoya-says-he%e2%80%99s-staying-in-land-commissioner-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/03\/montoya-says-he%e2%80%99s-staying-in-land-commissioner-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Montoya says he\u2019s staying in land commissioner race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12438\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12438\" title=\"Montoya, Harry\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Montoya-Harry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Harry Montoya<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Democratic Land Commissioner candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montoya2010.com\/index.html\">Harry Montoya<\/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>\u201cYes Heath, I am going to collect the signatures, already started yesterday!\u201d Montoya wrote in an e-mail.<\/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. Montoya came in second at 19.32 percent, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonesforlandcommissioner.com\/\">Sandy Jones<\/a> 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>Jones says he\u2019s also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/03\/jones-staying-in-land-commissioner-race\/\">staying in the race<\/a>. Anaya hasn\u2019t made a public announcement about his plans.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Land Commissioner candidate Harry Montoya 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-14577","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\/14577","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=14577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}