{"id":14719,"date":"2010-03-18T07:26:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-18T13:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=14719"},"modified":"2010-03-18T09:28:15","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T15:28:15","slug":"two-gop-lawmakers-endorse-arnold-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/03\/two-gop-lawmakers-endorse-arnold-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Two GOP lawmakers endorse Arnold-Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Janice Arnold-Jones (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n

Days after she failed to secure the votes<\/a> of 20 percent of delegates at the GOP\u2019s preprimary nominating convention, Republican gubernatorial candidate Janice Arnold-Jones<\/a> is trying to show that she has momentum by announcing the endorsements of two of her colleagues in the state House.<\/p>\n

The endorsements come from Rep. Kathy McCoy<\/a>, R-Cedar Crest, and Rep. Anna Crook<\/a>, R-Clovis and the House GOP caucus chair.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf ever New Mexican Republicans had an opportunity to win the governor\u2019s seat, it\u2019s this year.\u00a0We have outstanding candidates, all of whom bring specific talents to the table,\u201d McCoy said in a news release from the Arnold-Jones campaign. \u201cBut only one has the unique ability to hit the ground running without having to learn the job. That candidate is Janice Arnold-Jones.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cConsidering Representative Arnold-Jones was prohibited from fundraising and had serious limits on her ability to campaign throughout the regular and special sessions\u00a0of the Legislature, her campaign is in reality only four weeks old,\u201d Crook said. \u201cHer campaign\u2019s progress is remarkable and the momentum is with her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Arnold-Jones, herself a state representative from Albuquerque, was prohibited from fundraising during much of the last two months because she\u2019s a lawmaker and the Legislature was in session. The other candidates did not face a similar prohibition.<\/p>\n

Arnold-Jones said she was \u201chonored\u201d by the endorsement from Crook and \u201chumbled\u201d by the endorsement from McCoy.<\/p>\n

Crook and McCoy are the first Republican state legislators to endorse any GOP gubernatorial candidate other than Susana Martinez<\/a>, who has thus far picked up the endorsements of 11 state representatives and senators<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u2018In it to win it\u2019<\/h3>\n

At Saturday\u2019s convention, only two GOP gubernatorial candidates won the support of at least 20 percent of delegates. Martinez had 46.65 percent, while Allen Weh<\/a> had the support of 26.32 percent.<\/p>\n

Arnold-Jones finished third with 13.16 percent.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s significant because, 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 ever gone on to win the primary.<\/p>\n

In announcing following Saturday\u2019s convention that she already had the necessary signatures and was staying in the race, Arnold-Jones said her third-place finish was \u201ca more solid third than I expected\u201d and that she was \u201cdelighted.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery place I turn, we\u2019re making progress. People are listening to the message. They just may not have been the delegates,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

In announcing her endorsement of Arnold-Jones, Crook said the gubernatorial candidate \u201chas assured me she is in it to win it, and I am proud to stand with her.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs an entrepreneur, former business owner and a legislator, Rep. Arnold-Jones knows how to get the job done,\u201d Crook said. \u201cShe is clearly the only candidate in this race that can defeat\u00a0Diane Denish<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Days after she failed to secure the votes of 20 percent of delegates at the GOP\u2019s preprimary nominating convention, Republican gubernatorial candidate Janice Arnold-Jones is trying to show that she has momentum by announcing the endorsements of two of her colleagues in the state House.<\/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-14719","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\/14719","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=14719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14719\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}