{"id":15963,"date":"2010-04-15T11:28:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=15963"},"modified":"2010-04-15T11:30:39","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T17:30:39","slug":"anthony-trustee-pulls-gun-on-opponent%e2%80%99s-husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/04\/anthony-trustee-pulls-gun-on-opponent%e2%80%99s-husband\/","title":{"rendered":"Anthony trustee pulls gun on opponent\u2019s husband"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15964\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15964  \" title=\"Scott, James\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Scott-James.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A screen shot of the online video of Anthony Trustee James Scott talking to a News Channel 9 reporter.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Thought the days of politicians pulling guns on each other in the Wild West were a thing of the past? Think again.<\/p>\n<p>A man who was elected Tuesday to be one of four members of the Town of Anthony\u2019s Board of Trustees apparently pulled a gun on the husband of another trustee candidate two days before the election.<\/p>\n<p>News Channel 9 in El Paso has the full story. You can watch it by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktsm.com\/news\/anthony-trustee-candidate-allegedly-pulls-gun\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Basically, James Scott, who was elected to the board of trustees on Tuesday, accused Municipal Judge candidate Ann Francis Hernandez of knocking down one of his wife\u2019s campaign signs on Sunday. Peggy Sue Scott was running against \u2013 and ended up defeating \u2013 Hernandez on Tuesday.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After the sign incident on Sunday, Hernandez was on her way to a party at the home of trustee candidate Eva Rangel, who lives next door to the Scotts. Rangel, who lost the election, told the TV station her husband went next door to tell the Scotts that Hernandez was coming over, and when he knocked on the door James Scott answered with a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Rangel told the TV station James Scott pointed the gun at her husband.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason I pulled the firearm was because I didn\u2019t know who I was dealing with. There were a bunch of people that I didn\u2019t know who didn\u2019t look like they were the most upstanding citizens hanging around,\u201d James Scott told the TV station.<\/p>\n<p>News Channel 9 reported that police are investigating, and quoted James Scott as saying the gun wasn\u2019t loaded and police won\u2019t charge him because he was threatened on his own property.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/04\/anthony-election-results\/\">here<\/a> for the full results from Tuesday\u2019s election, the first for the newly incorporated town. Note: The TV station\u2019s video report incorrectly called James Scott a mayoral candidate, rather than a trustee candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man who was elected Tuesday to be one of four members of the Town of Anthony\u2019s Board of Trustees apparently pulled a gun on the husband of another trustee candidate two days before the election.<\/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":[173],"class_list":["post-15963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-anthony"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15963","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=15963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}