{"id":23899,"date":"2010-11-30T15:46:24","date_gmt":"2010-11-30T22:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=23899"},"modified":"2010-12-01T09:51:42","modified_gmt":"2010-12-01T16:51:42","slug":"gop-leaders-want-newman-to-be-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/11\/gop-leaders-want-newman-to-be-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP leaders want Newman to be chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_23900\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-23900 \" title=\"Newman, Monty\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/Newman-Monty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Monty Newman (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Gov.-elect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martineztransition.com\">Susana Martinez<\/a> and other top elected Republican officials sent a letter today to members of their party\u2019s state central committee urging them to make former Hobbs Mayor Monty Newman the next party chairman.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/Documents\/NewmanEndorsementLetter.pdf\">endorsement letter<\/a> is designed to leave no doubt about who will lead the Republican Party of New Mexico for the next two years.\u00a0It\u2019s also signed by Congressman-elect <a href=\"http:\/\/peopleforpearce.com\/\">Steve Pearce<\/a>, Albuquerque Mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabq.gov\/mayor\/\">Richard Berry<\/a>, Secretary of State-elect <a href=\"http:\/\/www.diannaduran2010.com\/\">Dianna Duran<\/a>, House Minority Leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HTAYT\">Tom Taylor<\/a>, and Senate Minority Leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SINGL\">Stuart Ingle<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur next chairman must organize and finance a statewide grassroots effort to counter the millions of dollars that will be spent by Barack Obama and far-left special interests in the 2012 election,\u201d the letter states.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith redistricting forthcoming and a presidential election around the corner, we believe Monty Newman has what it takes to be an effective servant and leader in our party. Monty shares our conservative values, he has been a successful leader in large organizations, and he is a proven fundraiser who will ensure that we have the resources to stand toe-to-toe with the Democrat Party machine in 2012,\u201d it states.<\/p>\n<p>Newman, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2008, is also a past vice president of the National Association of Realtors. He\u2019s running for Republican Party chair against Nina Martinez, who is currently the party\u2019s first vice chair.<\/p>\n<p>Newman hasn\u2019t returned a call seeking comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov.-elect Susana Martinez and other top elected GOP officials sent a letter today to members of their party\u2019s state central committee urging them to make former Hobbs Mayor Monty Newman the party chairman.<\/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":[156,194],"class_list":["post-23899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2012-election","tag-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23899","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=23899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}