{"id":2316,"date":"2007-10-03T20:23:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-04T02:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/10\/madrid-still-considering-senate-race\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T20:23:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T02:23:00","slug":"madrid-still-considering-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/10\/madrid-still-considering-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Madrid still considering Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Patricia Madrid<\/a>, a former state attorney general, said tonight she is considering whether to run for the open seat in the U.S. Senate following news that the GOP\u2019s Pete Domenici<\/a> is retiring next year. <\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m getting calls from all over the state,\u201d the prominent Democrat said. \u201cIt\u2019s very complex. I am, of course, talking to my husband of 35 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In addition, Madrid<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> is considering the fact that she is working for a \u201clucrative\u201d law firm and her job is \u201ccertainly more enjoyable than getting beaten up on television for a year.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Still, Madrid<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> said the Democrats will need a strong candidate with statewide name recognition who can raise millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere are very few of us in the state, and I\u2019ve done it,\u201d she said. \u201cThis is an opportunity. I will consider every option.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Madrid<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> said earlier this year she was considering running against Domenici in 2008.<\/p>\n

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She took a job earlier this year as a consultant for Dickstein Shapiro LLP<\/a>, a firm that represents some of the companies she took to court as the state\u2019s attorney general. She is also traveling around the nation promoting John Edwards\u2019<\/a> campaign for president. Madrid<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> said she would have to give up helping the Edwards campaign to run for Senate.<\/p>\n

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\u201cCertainly that enters into my thinking as well,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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The other factor, Madrid<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> said, is Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> next move. Though Richardson<\/st1:city> and his campaign continue to insist that he\u2019s not interested in the Senate race, Madrid<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> sounds skeptical.<\/p>\n

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\u201cOf course, we\u2019re all waiting to see what our governor does. And he\u2019s got a choice on his hands,\u201d she said. \u201cDoes he stick it out to get VP or secretary of state, or does he get in to the Senate race?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Madrid<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> ran unsuccessfully against U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson<\/a>, R-N.M., last year, losing by 861 votes out of more than 211,000. It was a bitter campaign, and Madrid<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> took several months to rest after the loss.<\/p>\n

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Madrid<\/st1:state> seemed to believe Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> will run for Senate. She pointed out that Wilson<\/st1:city> has never run in a statewide race, and she beat Wilson<\/st1:city> last year in Albuquerque<\/st1:city> and Sandoval<\/st1:placename> County<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>. Madrid<\/st1:state> also said Wilson<\/st1:city> wouldn\u2019t beat her in Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, where she grew up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Patricia Madrid, a former state attorney general, said tonight she is considering whether to run for the open seat in the U.S. Senate following news that the GOP\u2019s Pete Domenici is retiring next year. \u201cI\u2019m getting calls from all over the state,\u201d the prominent Democrat said. \u201cIt\u2019s very complex. I am, of course, talking to […]<\/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-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316","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=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}