{"id":212167,"date":"2016-11-08T22:31:57","date_gmt":"2016-11-09T05:31:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=212167"},"modified":"2016-11-08T23:27:02","modified_gmt":"2016-11-09T06:27:02","slug":"nm-senate-majority-leader-sanchez-ousted-in-upset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2016\/11\/nm-senate-majority-leader-sanchez-ousted-in-upset\/","title":{"rendered":"NM Senate Majority Leader Sanchez ousted in upset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Susana Martinez and her political adviser Jay McCleskey have targeted Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez for years.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_61521\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 336px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61521\" src=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unnamed-11-336x235.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Sanchez\" width=\"336\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unnamed-11-336x235.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unnamed-11-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unnamed-11-771x540.jpg 771w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/unnamed-11.jpg 1088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 336px) 100vw, 336px\" \/><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Heath Haussamen \/ NMPolitics.net<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Sanchez, D-Belen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday,\u00a0Sanchez lost his Senate seat following\u00a0a campaign in which voters were inundated with paid media featuring the family members of crime victims urging voters to oust him.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez, D-Belen, was trailing Republican challenger Gregory Baca by 10 points, 55 percent to 45 percent, when\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.koat.com\/article\/gregory-baca-claims-senate-district-29-defeats-incumbent-michael-sanchez\/8261199\" target=\"_blank\">KOAT-TV in Albuquerque<\/a> declared Baca the winner. Sanchez has served in the Senate since 1993.<\/p>\n<p>Sanchez and his campaign manager couldn&#8217;t immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Advance New Mexico Now, a political action committee tied to Martinez, hammered Sanchez during the campaign with radio ads, mailers, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=OGM6eeH8XaQ&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\">a TV spot<\/a>. That TV ad featured\u00a0Nicole Chavez-Lucero and Veronica Garcia, the mothers of children shot and killed in 2015, who are advocating for tougher penalties for certain crimes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Senator Sanchez seems to lack the empathy and understanding&#8230; He&#8217;s cradling those criminals,&#8221; Chavez-Lucero says in the TV ad.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No empathy, no professionalism, nothing,&#8221; Garcia says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sanchez lost his Senate seat following a campaign in which voters were inundated with paid media featuring the family members of crime victims urging voters to oust him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[708,107],"class_list":["post-212167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2016-election","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212167","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=212167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}