{"id":19447,"date":"2010-07-13T14:34:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-13T20:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=19447"},"modified":"2010-07-20T08:01:40","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T14:01:40","slug":"both-guv-candidates-dodge-question-on-drivers%e2%80%99-licenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/07\/both-guv-candidates-dodge-question-on-drivers%e2%80%99-licenses\/","title":{"rendered":"Both guv candidates dodge question on drivers\u2019 licenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18240\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18240\" title=\"Martinez, Denish\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Martinez-Denish.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susana Martinez (left, courtesy photo) and Diane Denish (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Both gubernatorial candidates have said they would end the state\u2019s policy that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain driver\u2019s licenses, but neither was willing to tell the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newmexicoindependent.com\/\">New Mexico Independent<\/a> how they would deal with the fallout of doing that.<\/p>\n<p>The law was instituted to reduce the number of uninsured drivers on New Mexico\u2019s roads, and it has done just that. From the Independent:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe Independent asked Democrat\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianedenish.com\/home\">Diane Denish<\/a> and Republican\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanamartinez2010.com\/help-me-bring-bold-change-to-new-mexico\/\">Susana Martinez<\/a> how they would address a potential rise in the state\u2019s uninsured rate and the possible increase in non-licensed motorists on the state\u2019s highways and thoroughfares if the state stopped issuing licenses to illegal immigrants. \u2026 Neither answered the questions.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read that article <a href=\"http:\/\/newmexicoindependent.com\/59018\/gubernatorial-candidates-dont-know-or-wont-say-what-happens-after-nm-stops-issuing-drivers-licenses-to-immigrants\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez didn\u2019t provide a statement for that initial article. After the original article posted, Martinez provided a statement to the Independent. But she still didn\u2019t answer the question. Read about that <a href=\"http:\/\/newmexicoindependent.com\/59221\/martinez-like-denish-wont-talk-about-potential-consequences-of-drivers-license-decision?utm_campaign=twitter&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_source=twitter\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both gubernatorial candidates have said they would end the state\u2019s policy that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain driver\u2019s licenses, but neither was willing to tell the New Mexico Independent how they would deal with the fallout of doing that.<\/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":[108,140,183,107],"class_list":["post-19447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-border-and-immigration","tag-issues","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19447","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=19447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}