{"id":2344,"date":"2007-10-08T08:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-08T14:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/10\/lyons-not-any-closer-to-decision-on-senate-race\/"},"modified":"2007-10-08T08:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-10-08T14:57:00","slug":"lyons-not-any-closer-to-decision-on-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/10\/lyons-not-any-closer-to-decision-on-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyons ‘not any closer’ to decision on Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>New Mexico Land Commissioner Pat Lyons<\/a> said this morning he\u2019s still undecided on whether to run for U.S. Senate. <\/p>\n

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Lyons, a Republican, has been trying to reach U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce<\/a>, R-N.M., to discuss the situation before making a decision. Pearce is also seriously considering the race.<\/p>\n

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Lyons<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said he wasn\u2019t able to speak with Pearce this weekend, but the congressman is supposed to call him Tuesday or Wednesday \u2013 which may be an indicator of when Pearce plans to reveal his decision.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re not any closer,\u201d Lyons<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said. \u201cWe\u2019re still undecided right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The Pearce campaign told me today it had no news to report on whether the congressman is closer to making a decision on the Senate race.<\/p>\n

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Lyons<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said he\u2019ll also have to consider which Democrats get into the race, and noted that he\u2019s also considering whether to run for governor in 2010. The land commissioner is the only GOP statewide elected official in New Mexico<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> and will be forced by term limits to leave his current job at the end of 2010.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici\u2019s<\/a> retirement has injected a great deal of uncertainty into New Mexico<\/st1:state> politics, Lyons<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe whole political deck\u2019s been reshuffled here,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson<\/a> and political newcomer Spiro Vassilopoulos<\/a> have both announced they are running in the GOP primary for Senate.<\/p>\n

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Lyons<\/st1:city> said running to replace Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> in the House isn\u2019t an option. He lives in Northern New Mexico<\/st1:place>\u2019s Third Congressional District.<\/p>\n

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New Mexico Land Commissioner Pat Lyons said this morning he\u2019s still undecided on whether to run for U.S. Senate. Lyons, a Republican, has been trying to reach U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., to discuss the situation before making a decision. Pearce is also seriously considering the race. Lyons said he wasn\u2019t able to speak with […]<\/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-2344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344","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=2344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}