{"id":1871,"date":"2007-06-20T22:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T04:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/06\/celebration-of-gop-activists-life-to-be-held-july-14\/"},"modified":"2007-06-20T22:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-21T04:08:00","slug":"celebration-of-gop-activists-life-to-be-held-july-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/06\/celebration-of-gop-activists-life-to-be-held-july-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebration of GOP activist&#8217;s life to be held July 14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rnn539ANOVI\/AAAAAAAACo4\/py_yA9R6dLQ\/s1600-h\/Laurance,+Mike.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rnn539ANOVI\/AAAAAAAACo4\/py_yA9R6dLQ\/s200\/Laurance,+Mike.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5078364794500495698\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A celebration will be held next month in honor of longtime Republican Party leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zianet.com\/laurance\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Laurance<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Laurance died in May following a battle with cancer. He was 65.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The celebration of Laurance\u2019s life will be held on July 14 at 4 p.m. in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmsu.edu\/General\/Maps\/buildings\/milton.html\" target=\"_blank\">Creative Media Institute<\/a> auditorium on the New Mexico State University Campus in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Those who can\u2019t attend, but wish to contribute to a scholarship in Laurance\u2019s name, can make checks out to the Mike Laurance Memorial Scholarship Fund and mail them to The Mike Laurance Memorial Scholarship Fund, c\/o Jonathan Benson, NMSU Box 3001 MSC 3CMI, Las Cruces, NM  88003.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Laurance was a former chairman of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.donaanarepublicans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Do\u00f1a Ana County Republican Party<\/a> and former southern regional political director for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopnm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Republican Party of New Mexico<\/a>. He was instrumental in organizing the county party\u2019s effort to find and train watchers and challengers to staff every polling place. The new level of organization he brought helped expose problems with the 2002 primary election that led to the indictment and later conviction of then-county Clerk Ruben Ceballos, a Democrat, on five felonies related to mismanaging that election, which forced Ceballos from office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Laurance was also a professional photographer who had taught journalism classes at NMSU and helped establish the Creative Media Institute. You can read his obituary by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.webfh.com\/fh\/obituaries\/obituary.cfm?o_id=128563&#038;fh_id=10322&amp;s_id=BE9946A155FED7AA5C77FD111F6946A5\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A celebration will be held next month in honor of longtime Republican Party leader Mike Laurance. Laurance died in May following a battle with cancer. He was 65. The celebration of Laurance\u2019s life will be held on July 14 at 4 p.m. in the Creative Media Institute auditorium on the New Mexico State University Campus [&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-1871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871","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=1871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}