{"id":1604,"date":"2007-04-18T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-18T21:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/former-gallup-mayor-appointed-to-house-seat\/"},"modified":"2007-04-18T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-18T21:15:00","slug":"former-gallup-mayor-appointed-to-house-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/former-gallup-mayor-appointed-to-house-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Gallup mayor appointed to House seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> has appointed former <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Gallup<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> mayor John Pe\u00f1a to fill the House seat vacated when Irvin Harrison retired last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Pe\u00f1a, a Democrat, is an accountant. He will serve the remainder of <st1:place st=\"on\">Harrison<\/st1:place>\u2019s term and has to run for election next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cJohn Pe\u00f1a is very familiar with the diverse communities that make up this district,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said in a news release. \u201cI am confident that he will aggressively represent the people of McKinley and <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">San Juan<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> counties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Pe\u00f1a, a graduate of Gallup High School and the University of New Mexico, also serves as trustee for Rehoboth McKinley Christian Health Care Services and director of the Ceremonial Association. He is a founding member of Big Brothers-Big Sisters and is a member of the Northwest New Mexico Council of Governments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson has appointed former Gallup mayor John Pe\u00f1a to fill the House seat vacated when Irvin Harrison retired last month. Pe\u00f1a, a Democrat, is an accountant. He will serve the remainder of Harrison\u2019s term and has to run for election next year. \u201cJohn Pe\u00f1a is very familiar with the diverse communities that make [&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-1604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604","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=1604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}