{"id":1517,"date":"2007-04-03T14:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/voter-turnout-high-in-parts-of-oscar-butlers-district\/"},"modified":"2007-04-03T14:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-03T20:51:00","slug":"voter-turnout-high-in-parts-of-oscar-butlers-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/voter-turnout-high-in-parts-of-oscar-butlers-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Voter turnout high in parts of Oscar Butler&#8217;s district"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RhK-YgDZmYI\/AAAAAAAAB4A\/dlLNM3bX8GA\/s1600-h\/Butler,+Oscar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RhK-YgDZmYI\/AAAAAAAAB4A\/dlLNM3bX8GA\/s200\/Butler,+Oscar.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5049307460366080386\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Voter turnout is heavy \u2013 at least for an off-year, special election \u2013 in several rural communities to the north and west of <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Those communities all fall in the county commission district of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donaanacounty.org\/commissioners\/district1\" target=\"_blank\">Oscar Vasquez Butler<\/a>, the most outspoken opponent of the spaceport tax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Whether that means those voters oppose the tax isn\u2019t yet known. But <st1:placetype st=\"on\">county<\/st1:placetype> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Elections<\/st1:placename> Supervisor <st1:city st=\"on\">Lynn<\/st1:city> Ellins said there have already been 250 voters in Picacho Hills, more than 100 at a precinct at <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Picacho<\/st1:placename>  <st1:placetype st=\"on\">Middle School<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>, more than 90 at Fairacres Elementary and very heavy turnout in Radium Springs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">None of those communities are the rural colonias that make up the majority of <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Butler<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s district. They are communities in and around the edges of the <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> city limits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Butler<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said it\u2019s hard to predict what that means.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI hope they follow their leadership, and that\u2019s me,\u201d he said. \u201cBut this is really up to the voters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Butler<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> noted that most in Picacho Hills are Republicans, who are typically anti-tax. But in this case, the chair of the county\u2019s Republican Party and the only Republican on the commission have endorsed the spaceport tax.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">No matter what happens, <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Butler<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said, those communities with high voter turnout have \u201calready won.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cIt\u2019s empowered many communities,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s great to see that we\u2019re a worthy opponent. And that we\u2019re a worthy opponent means we\u2019ve won already. If we win the election, that\u2019s frosting on the cake.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Voter turnout is heavy \u2013 at least for an off-year, special election \u2013 in several rural communities to the north and west of Las Cruces. Those communities all fall in the county commission district of Oscar Vasquez Butler, the most outspoken opponent of the spaceport tax. Whether that means those voters oppose the tax isn\u2019t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","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=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}