{"id":14584,"date":"2010-03-15T12:45:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-15T19:45:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=14584"},"modified":"2010-03-15T12:45:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-15T19:45:22","slug":"ortiz-y-pino-says-he%e2%80%99s-staying-in-race-for-lieutenant-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/03\/ortiz-y-pino-says-he%e2%80%99s-staying-in-race-for-lieutenant-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ortiz y Pino says he\u2019s staying in race for lieutenant governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5633\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5633\" title=\"Ortiz y Pino, Gerald\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Ortiz-y-Pino-Gerald1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jerry Ortiz y Pino<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Democratic Lt. Gov. candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/jerryfornewmexico.com\/\">Jerry Ortiz y Pino <\/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>\u201cI am not at all discouraged by this hurdle,\u201d Ortiz y Pino wrote in an e-mail to supporters.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz y Pino wrote that a \u201crace this close in the mainstream Democratic Party convention\u2026. is simply reinforcing the basic idea that we began this campaign with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat thought was that\u00a0this year provides a great opportunity to mobilize progressive\u00a0voters\u00a0and to recapture the\u00a0Democratic Party\u00a0for its base: the working families of this state,\u201d the e-mail states.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.electcolon.com\/\">Brian Col\u00f3n<\/a> finished first at the convention with the votes of 34.54 percent of delegates. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rael2010.org\/\">Lawrence Rael<\/a> finished second at 22.15 percent, while <a href=\"http:\/\/joecampos.org\/\">Joe Campos<\/a> finished with 19.69 percent, Ortiz y Pino finished with 18.87 percent, and <a href=\"http:\/\/votelindalopez.com\/default.aspx\">Linda Lopez<\/a> finished with 4.73 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>Campos and Lopez haven\u2019t yet responded to e-mails asking whether they are staying in the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Lt. Gov. candidate Jerry Ortiz y Pino 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-14584","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\/14584","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=14584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}