{"id":24043,"date":"2010-12-04T15:04:49","date_gmt":"2010-12-04T22:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=24043"},"modified":"2010-12-06T08:40:13","modified_gmt":"2010-12-06T15:40:13","slug":"newman-elected-state-gop-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/12\/newman-elected-state-gop-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"Newman elected state GOP 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>Republicans picked former Hobbs Mayor Monty Newman today to become the new chairman of the state GOP.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c2010 was a good year for Republicans, but there is still a lot of work to be done,\u201d Newman said in a news release. \u201cI am honored to have earned the privilege to lead the party as we look forward to 2012, and I am committed to working alongside the Republicans we elected in 2009 and 2010 to increase party membership, recruit talented candidates, and ensure we continue to elect Republicans both locally and nationally.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newman defeated Nina Martinez, currently the <a href=\"http:\/\/gopnm.com\/\">Republican Party of New Mexico\u2019s<\/a> first vice chair, for the position.<\/p>\n<p>Newman, a realtor, is a former congressional candidate and former vice president of the National Association of Realtors. \u00a0He had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/12\/nina-martinez-isn%E2%80%99t-backing-down-in-gop-chair-race\/\">the backing<\/a> of Gov.-elect Susana Martinez, Congressman-elect Steve Pearce and other GOP officials.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In addition to electing Newman, the GOP\u2019s state central committee also elected the following officers to serve a 2-year term beginning\u00a0Sunday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First vice chair \u2013 John Billingsley of Alto<\/li>\n<li>Second vice chair \u2013 Robert Perea of Albuquerque<\/li>\n<li>CD1 vice chair \u2013 Rick Abraham of Albuquerque<\/li>\n<li>CD2 vice chair \u2013 Alice Eppers of Roswell<\/li>\n<li>CD3 vice chair \u2013 Rube Render of Clovis<\/li>\n<li>Secretary \u2013 Peter Shams-Avari of Albuquerque<\/li>\n<li>Treasurer \u2013 Bill Redmond of Los Alamos<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans picked former Hobbs Mayor Monty Newman today to become the new chairman of the state GOP.<\/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":[194],"class_list":["post-24043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-republican-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24043","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=24043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}