{"id":23728,"date":"2010-11-19T08:48:31","date_gmt":"2010-11-19T15:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=23728"},"modified":"2010-11-19T08:48:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-19T15:48:34","slug":"national-gop-group-puts-martinez-on-leadership-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/11\/national-gop-group-puts-martinez-on-leadership-team\/","title":{"rendered":"National GOP group puts Martinez on leadership team"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23070\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23070  \" title=\"Martinez2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Martinez2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"190\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov.-elect Susana Martinez (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In a further sign of her rising national star power, Gov.-elect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martineztransition.com\">Susana Martinez<\/a> was chosen by her Republican peers on Thursday to be on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rga.org\/homepage\/\">Republican Governors Association\u2019s<\/a> leadership team.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com\/archives\/2010\/11\/christie-haley.php\">The National Journal<\/a>, Martinez will be an at-large member of the leadership committee.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s lots of new diversity among GOP governors, and they were quick to tout it at Thursday\u2019s meeting. From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/11\/19\/us\/politics\/19rga.html?_r=1&amp;partner=rss&amp;emc=rss\">The New York Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere was plenty of fanfare here for Ms. Haley and Ms. Martinez \u2014 and not just for their fiscal ideas. Mr. Pawlenty introduced them in a panel discussion, \u2018The New Face of the G.O.P.,\u2019 the group\u2019s not-so-subtle way of highlighting a burst of diversity in its ranks. With Mr. Jindal, an Indian-American, and Gov. Brian Sandoval of Nevada, there will be two Hispanic and two Indian-American Republican governors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 Later, Mr. Pawlenty called Ms. Martinez and Ms. Haley \u2018clear stars\u2019 in a new class of governors that reflected \u2018different walks of life.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Martinez continued to downplay her status as the first Hispanic woman to be elected governor anywhere in the United States. From The Times:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMs. Martinez\u2026 said that she embraced \u2018the responsibility of doing this right\u2019 as a role model for young girls who may follow in her footsteps.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Still, she seemed exasperated at the discussion of identity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I have said over and over again that being a woman and being Hispanic is only one of the small steps,\u2019 she said. \u2018Turning New Mexico around is what is going to be historical.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a further sign of her rising national star power, Gov.-elect Susana Martinez was chosen by her Republican peers on Thursday to be on the Republican Governors Association\u2019s leadership team.<\/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-23728","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\/23728","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=23728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}