{"id":17078,"date":"2010-05-10T10:27:15","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T16:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=17078"},"modified":"2010-05-10T10:27:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T16:27:16","slug":"education-unions-back-powell-in-land-commissioner-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/05\/education-unions-back-powell-in-land-commissioner-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Education unions back Powell in land commissioner race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17079\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17079\" title=\"Powell, Ray\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Powell-Ray.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ray Powell<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Two large education unions have endorsed Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/raypowell4land.com\/\">Ray Powell<\/a> in the land commissioner race.<\/p>\n<p>The endorsements from the <a href=\"http:\/\/nm.aft.org\/\">American Federation of Teachers<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nea-nm.org\/\">National Education Association<\/a> were announced by Powell, who wrote in an e-mail that he is \u201cpleased to report\u201d the backing of the unions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s get Ray back at the Land Office,\u201d AFT-NM President Christine Trujillo said in a statement released by Powell. \u201cThe State Land Office matters so much to our schools and our kids. We\u2019re committed to doing all we can to make sure he\u2019s back at the helm come November.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Powell is a former land commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>Sharon Morgan, NEA-NM president, said her union is \u201cpleased to recommend\u201d that voters once again pick Powell for the job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has a proven record of caring and doing the right thing with our public lands when it comes to our school children, parents and education employees,\u201d Morgan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two large education unions have endorsed Democrat Ray Powell in the land commissioner 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-17078","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\/17078","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=17078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}