{"id":1634,"date":"2007-04-25T11:39:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-25T17:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/domenici-has-two-lesser-known-challengers\/"},"modified":"2007-04-25T11:39:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-25T17:39:00","slug":"domenici-has-two-lesser-known-challengers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/domenici-has-two-lesser-known-challengers\/","title":{"rendered":"Domenici has two lesser-known challengers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Ri-So8C6yMI\/AAAAAAAACHg\/aDHJ9GBFc_A\/s1600-h\/Lehrman,+Leland.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Ri-So8C6yMI\/AAAAAAAACHg\/aDHJ9GBFc_A\/s200\/Lehrman,+Leland.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5057422138571147458\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In the absence of a prominent Democrat stepping forward to take on U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/domenici.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Domenici<\/a>, R-N.M., next year, two lesser-known candidates have announced that they\u2019re running.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I reported Tuesday about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jimhannan.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jim Hannan\u2019s<\/a> candidacy. I neglected to tell you about that of Leland Lehrman. Thanks to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqtrib.com\/news\/2007\/apr\/25\/dems-put-names-hat-domenici-job\/\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Tribune<\/a> for reporting on him today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lehrman, a Web designer who raises goats and chickens in Lamy, edits the New Mexico Sun-News, an alternative paper in <st1:place st=\"on\">Northern  New Mexico<\/st1:place>. He also publishes the online newsletter <a href=\"http:\/\/mothermedia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mother Media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He lists an extensive platform on Mother Media that includes ending the war in <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, impeaching the president and vice president, repealing the Patriot Act and dismantling the Homeland Security Department. He wants to repeal the North American Free Trade Agreement, end funding for nuclear weapons and replace it with a focus on renewable energy, institute universal health care, expand the propensity of organic food and farming, publicly finance elections and limit media monopolies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lehrman hasn\u2019t yet filed a declaration of candidacy or any finance reports with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fec.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Federal Election Commission<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the absence of a prominent Democrat stepping forward to take on U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., next year, two lesser-known candidates have announced that they\u2019re running. I reported Tuesday about Jim Hannan\u2019s candidacy. I neglected to tell you about that of Leland Lehrman. Thanks to the Albuquerque Tribune for reporting on him today. Lehrman, [&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-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","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=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}