{"id":23416,"date":"2010-11-12T11:02:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-12T18:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=23416"},"modified":"2010-11-17T09:33:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T16:33:33","slug":"herrera-says-she%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98at-peace%e2%80%99-with-loss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/11\/herrera-says-she%e2%80%99s-%e2%80%98at-peace%e2%80%99-with-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Herrera says she\u2019s \u2018at peace\u2019 with loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22179\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22179\" title=\"Herrera, Mary\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Herrera-Mary.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"239\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Herrera<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Outgoing Secretary of State <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.nm.us\/sos-SecBio.html\">Mary Herrera<\/a> says she\u2019s \u201cat peace\u201d with her blowout loss to Republican challenger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diannaduran2010.com\/\">Dianna Duran<\/a> in last week\u2019s election and she\u2019s \u201cready to move on to bigger and better opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThings happen for a reason,\u201d Herrera wrote in an unsolicited e-mail to NMPolitics.net. \u201cGod wants me somewhere else and I am looking forward to that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duran defeated Herrera 58 percent to 42 percent, at least in part because of media coverage of controversies that have plagued Herrera\u2019s tenure. But Herrera wrote in her e-mail that New Mexico \u201chad another great election\u201d on Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am leaving soon with a great audit, no findings, cut the budget in half from the day I took over in 2007, $6.2 million to $3.4 million, implemented a new campaign financial system, and had to take the hits that my staff are not qualified,\u201d Herrera wrote in her e-mail. \u201cAll of these great accomplishments would of never happened if the staff and myself were not qualified.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing Secretary of State Mary Herrera says she\u2019s \u201cat peace\u201d with her blowout loss to Republican challenger Dianna Duran in last week\u2019s election and she\u2019s \u201cready to move on to bigger and better opportunities.\u201d<\/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-23416","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\/23416","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=23416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}