{"id":16002,"date":"2010-04-15T15:39:25","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T21:39:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=16002"},"modified":"2010-04-15T15:39:27","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T21:39:27","slug":"afscme-endorses-colon-in-lieutenant-governor%e2%80%99s-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/04\/afscme-endorses-colon-in-lieutenant-governor%e2%80%99s-race\/","title":{"rendered":"AFSCME endorses Col\u00f3n in lieutenant governor\u2019s race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9077\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-9077 \" title=\"Colon, Brian\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Colon-Brian-300x252.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Colon-Brian-300x252.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Colon-Brian.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Brian Col\u00f3n (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/afscme.org\/\">American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees<\/a> announced today that it had endorsed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electcolon.com\/\">Brian\u00a0Col\u00f3n <\/a>in the lieutenant governor\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday evening, AFSCME New Mexico\u2019s political action committee voted 5-0 to endorse Col\u00f3n for, according to an AFSCME news release, \u201chis\u00a0understanding of the struggles New Mexicans are going through because he has been through hard times himself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Col\u00f3n knows it is irresponsible for Santa Fe to balance the budget on the backs of New Mexico\u2019s working families. The workers are the backbone of this state and we know Brian is the right person to be their voice,\u201d state employee Mary Gustin said in the AFSCME release.<\/p>\n<p>The union represents more than 12,000 city, county, state and university employees, along with home childcare professionals, so the endorsement could provide a significant boost to Col\u00f3n\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Col\u00f3n said he is honored by the endorsement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis election is about improving the lives of New Mexicans across our state by helping rebuild our economy and investing in our people,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees announced today that it had endorsed Brian Col\u00f3n in the lieutenant governor\u2019s race.<\/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-16002","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\/16002","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=16002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}