{"id":1976,"date":"2007-07-13T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-13T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/07\/another-dem-to-fight-for-right-to-take-on-wilson\/"},"modified":"2007-07-13T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-13T22:22:00","slug":"another-dem-to-fight-for-right-to-take-on-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/07\/another-dem-to-fight-for-right-to-take-on-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Dem to fight for right to take on Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Democratic Party insider Bryon Paez has decided to jump into the race for the Democratic nomination to take on U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/wilson.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a>, R-N.M., next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A native of <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Las   Vegas<\/st1:city>, <st1:state st=\"on\">N.M.<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>, Paez has worked for Gov. Bill Richardson, the national Democrats and several statewide Democratic candidates. He\u2019s never run for office before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He\u2019s a Marine Corps veteran and, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqtrib.com\/news\/2007\/jul\/12\/veteran-paez-run-us-house-seat\/\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Tribune<\/a>, served in <st1:country-region st=\"on\">Somalia<\/st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The entrance of a Hispanic who is well-known to party insiders makes this race interesting. There are two other Democrats in the race \u2013 frontrunner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinheinrich.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Heinrich<\/a>, an <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> city councilor who raised $181,000 during the last fundraising quarter, and attorney Jon Adams, who just entered the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I\u2019m out of time on this Friday afternoon, so check back Monday and I\u2019ll tell you about the new Democrat who has entered the race for the party\u2019s nomination to take on U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/pearce.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a>, R-N.M., next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Party insider Bryon Paez has decided to jump into the race for the Democratic nomination to take on U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., next year. A native of Las Vegas, N.M., Paez has worked for Gov. Bill Richardson, the national Democrats and several statewide Democratic candidates. He\u2019s never run for office before. He\u2019s a [&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-1976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976","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=1976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}