{"id":1699,"date":"2007-05-09T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T21:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/chavez-leaning-toward-running-for-city-council\/"},"modified":"2007-05-09T15:12:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T21:12:00","slug":"chavez-leaning-toward-running-for-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/chavez-leaning-toward-running-for-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Chavez leaning toward running for city council"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Isaac Chavez<\/a>, who failed in a bid to unseat state Rep. Andy Nu\u00f1ez<\/a> last year, is leaning toward running for a seat on the Las Cruces City Council in November. <\/p>\n

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He would run for the District 4 seat currently held by Steve Trowbridge<\/a>, who is not seeking re-election. No one has officially declared their candidacy for the seat.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m leaning towards it,\u201d Chavez said. \u201cA non-partisan race is pretty attractive to me. I can get a lot done. I\u2019m a loyal Republican, but I really do consider myself to be a Las Crucen first and foremost.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Chavez\u2019s wife is pregnant with their first child, who is due in about a month. In addition, they are in the process of selling a Laundromat they own. Chavez said he wants to sell the business and make sure the birth goes well before deciding whether to run.<\/p>\n

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He said he expects to make a decision by July. Candidates won\u2019t file for the Nov. 6 election until August.<\/p>\n

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But Chavez is clearly serious about a potential run. He has been attending meetings of the council and other city boards for a couple of months.<\/p>\n

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Chavez ran a competitive race against Nu\u00f1ez last year, raising almost $70,000 and coming within eight percent of beating the popular incumbent. If he doesn\u2019t run for city council, Chavez said he will probably run for Nu\u00f1ez\u2019s seat again in 2008.<\/p>\n

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Nu\u00f1ez, who was named chair of the Agriculture and Water Resources Committee this year, said he plans to seek re-election and welcomes another challenge from Chavez. He said Chavez needs to hold a position like city councilor to build credibility before he can be elected to the House.<\/p>\n

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One of the main issues in the city election will be Las Cruces<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>\u2019 rapid growth. Chavez, who has a commercial real estate license and is co-owner of a company that plans to fly people\u2019s ashes into space for a fee, said he is \u201cpro-growth.\u201d However, Chavez is also a fifth-generation Las Crucen who has seen family members lose farmland to the city\u2019s rapid expansion. He said he is \u201cstuck in the middle\u201d of the controversial debate about how Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> should grow.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI want the city to grow, but I want it to grow in the right way,\u201d Chavez said.<\/p>\n

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Chavez\u2019s father is a first cousin of Las Cruces Mayor Pro-Tem Dolores Connor<\/a>, but Chavez said that won\u2019t be a factor in whether he runs. He said Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is a small town, and many public officials are related to other public officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Isaac Chavez, who failed in a bid to unseat state Rep. Andy Nu\u00f1ez last year, is leaning toward running for a seat on the Las Cruces City Council in November. He would run for the District 4 seat currently held by Steve Trowbridge, who is not seeking re-election. No one has officially declared their candidacy […]<\/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-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","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=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}