{"id":2102,"date":"2007-08-15T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-15T15:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/08\/romero-to-run-for-county-commission-next-year\/"},"modified":"2007-08-15T09:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-15T15:05:00","slug":"romero-to-run-for-county-commission-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/08\/romero-to-run-for-county-commission-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Romero to run for county commission next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RsMWb0uF4mI\/AAAAAAAADHY\/FanTLeqIcKg\/s1600-h\/DonaAnaCounty.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RsMWb0uF4mI\/AAAAAAAADHY\/FanTLeqIcKg\/s200\/DonaAnaCounty.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5098943870377779810\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Backed by a weighty endorsement, Democrat Vicente \u201cVince\u201d Romero has announced that he\u2019ll seek the Do\u00f1a Ana County District 5 commission seat next year.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The seat is currently held by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billmccamley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill McCamley<\/a>, a Democrat who is running for Congress, leaving the commission seat open in next year\u2019s election. McCamley has publicly endorsed Romero\u2019s candidacy to represent a district that encompasses most of the City of <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las   Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> on the county commission.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/news\/ci_6625307\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a>, Romero is a former worker in the Department of Justice who is an advocate for the elderly and at-risk youth. He\u2019s a veteran of the Army and Navy. He has served on several community boards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There\u2019s a good chance Romero is going to have to fight a primary battle before he faces a GOP opponent in next year\u2019s general election. The district is largely Democratic and not always united. But the divide is sometimes between what many Democrats refer to as the \u201cold guard\u201d and the \u201cnew guard,\u201d so the endorsement of the young McCamley certainly carries a lot of weight in a primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backed by a weighty endorsement, Democrat Vicente \u201cVince\u201d Romero has announced that he\u2019ll seek the Do\u00f1a Ana County District 5 commission seat next year. The seat is currently held by Bill McCamley, a Democrat who is running for Congress, leaving the commission seat open in next year\u2019s election. McCamley has publicly endorsed Romero\u2019s candidacy to [&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-2102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102","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=2102"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2102\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}