{"id":18172,"date":"2010-06-02T13:27:36","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T19:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=18172"},"modified":"2024-05-11T13:56:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-11T19:56:36","slug":"romney-gives-to-new-mexico-gop-candidates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/06\/romney-gives-to-new-mexico-gop-candidates\/","title":{"rendered":"Romney gives to New Mexico GOP candidates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Potential 2012 GOP presidential candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mitt_Romney\">Mitt Romney<\/a> jumped into New Mexico politics today by announcing that his political committee is giving campaign contributions to his party\u2019s gubernatorial nominee, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanamartinez2010.com\/\">Susana Martinez<\/a>, and two congressional candidates.<\/p>\n<p>Romney\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freestrongamerica.com\/\">Free and Strong America PAC<\/a> is giving $5,000 to Martinez and $2,500 each to 1st Congressional District candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonbarela.com\/\">Jon Barela<\/a> and 2nd Congressional District candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleforpearce.com\/\">Steve Pearce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt a time when too many of our leaders are interested in growing the size of government, we need leaders who will stand up and say no to higher taxes and higher spending,\u201d Romney said in a news release. \u201cThis is why it is so important that we elect people like Susana Martinez, Jon Barela and Steve Pearce, who will work to get our economy back on track and make job creation a priority.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The PAC, according to the release, aims to elect \u201cconservative candidates who will work to lower taxes and spending, restore commonsense principles to healthcare and get our economy moving again.\u201d The PAC has endorsed candidates in several states.<\/p>\n<p>The news release hinted that more New Mexico endorsements might follow, stating that today\u2019s announcement represented its \u201cfirst wave of New Mexico endorsements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After losing the GOP presidential primary to John McCain in 2008, Romney twice came to New Mexico (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/09\/romney-visiting-new-mexico-today-to-help-pearce\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/romney-says-nm-voters-swinging-to-mccain-pearce\/\">here<\/a>) to campaign for McCain and Pearce, who was running for U.S. Senate at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potential 2012 GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney jumped into New Mexico politics today by announcing that his political committee is giving campaign contributions to his party\u2019s gubernatorial nominee, Susana Martinez, and two congressional candidates.<\/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":[108,156,107,116],"class_list":["post-18172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-2012-election","tag-roundhouse","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18172","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=18172"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932743,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18172\/revisions\/932743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}