{"id":19903,"date":"2010-07-26T10:40:38","date_gmt":"2010-07-26T16:40:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=19903"},"modified":"2010-07-26T10:41:11","modified_gmt":"2010-07-26T16:41:11","slug":"brother-of-abq-councilor-wants-to-run-for-house-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/07\/brother-of-abq-councilor-wants-to-run-for-house-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Brother of ABQ councilor wants to run for House seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19904\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19904\" title=\"Lewis, Tim\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/Lewis-Tim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Lewis<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/electtimlewis.com\/\">Tim Lewis<\/a>, the brother of Albuquerque City Councilor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabq.gov\/council\/councilors\/district-5\/district-5\">Dan Lewis<\/a>, has announced his candidacy for the District 60 House seat currently held by Democrat\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HTHOJ\">Jack Thomas<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not yet certain that Lewis will be the GOP candidate for the Rio Rancho-area House seat. The state GOP still has to meet on Aug. 5 to formally nominate a candidate. No others have made public announcements that they plan to seek the GOP nomination for the seat.<\/p>\n<p>The nomination is up for grabs because the previous Republican candidate, Tonia Harris, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/07\/gop-candidate-withdraws-from-state-house-race\/\">dropped out of the race<\/a> last week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen it comes to improving lives, I\u2019ve learned through the years that government can often do more harm than good, especially when the judgments of elected officials are guided by political expediency rather than simple common sense,\u201d Lewis said in a news release announcing his candidacy. \u201cI want to bring commonsense leadership to the Legislature and stop the short-sighted decision-making that\u2019s impeding our prosperity and jeopardizing our children\u2019s future. With the right leadership in Santa Fe, we can turn things around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lewis is a high school teacher. He and his wife have four boys.<\/p>\n<p>In the NMPolitics.net monthly newsletter that goes to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/nmpolitics-net-needs-your-support\/\">qualifying donors<\/a>, I have listed Thomas at No. 4 on my list of most endangered incumbents in New Mexico this election cycle. I\u2019m not yet sure how this changes things, and I\u2019m going to wait to decide until the GOP formally nominates Lewis or someone else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Lewis, the brother of Albuquerque City Councilor Dan Lewis, has announced his candidacy for the House seat currently held by Democrat Jack Thomas.<\/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-19903","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\/19903","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=19903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}