{"id":14626,"date":"2010-03-15T23:15:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T05:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=14626"},"modified":"2010-03-15T23:15:38","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T05:15:38","slug":"campos-says-he%e2%80%99s-staying-in-the-race-for-lieutenant-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/03\/campos-says-he%e2%80%99s-staying-in-the-race-for-lieutenant-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Campos says he\u2019s staying in the race for lieutenant governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14627\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14627\" title=\"Campos, Jose\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Campos-Jose.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Campos<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Democratic Lt. Gov. candidate\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/jerryfornewmexico.com\/\">Joe Campos <\/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>\u201cThe delegate voting shows we have a tight race among the top candidates. In the weeks leading to the\u00a0June 1\u00a0primary, any one of the top candidates has the opportunity to break away from the pack and win the election,\u201d he wrote in an e-mail to supporters. \u201cMy campaign team has shifted into high gear and we aim to take the lead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;ve competed in some tough elections in the past. I have challenges ahead in the upcoming campaign, but my whole career as a public servant is about meeting challenges head-on and with gusto,\u201d he said.<\/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.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rael2010.org\/\">Lawrence Rael<\/a> finished second at 22.15 percent, while\u00a0Campos<a href=\"http:\/\/joecampos.org\/\"><\/a> finished with 19.69 percent, <a href=\"http:\/\/jerryfornewmexico.com\/\">Jerry Ortiz y Pino<\/a> finished with 18.87 percent, and\u00a0<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>Ortiz y Pino said <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/03\/ortiz-y-pino-says-he%E2%80%99s-staying-in-race-for-lieutenant-governor\/\">earlier today<\/a> that he\u2019s also staying in the race. Lopez hasn\u2019t responded to an e-mail asking whether she\u2019s staying in the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Lt. Gov. candidate Joe Campos 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-14626","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\/14626","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=14626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}