{"id":24763,"date":"2011-01-05T08:19:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T15:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=24763"},"modified":"2011-01-05T08:19:14","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T15:19:14","slug":"wilson-considering-senate-run-and-%e2%80%98other-opportunities%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/01\/wilson-considering-senate-run-and-%e2%80%98other-opportunities%e2%80%99\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson considering Senate run and \u2018other opportunities\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_16589\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16589 \" title=\"Wilson\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Wilson-300x244.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Wilson-300x244.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Wilson.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heather_Wilson\">Heather Wilson<\/a> says she\u2019s considering running for U.S. Senate in 2012 and \u201cother opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to the D.C. publication <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollcall.com\/news\/-202015-1.html\">Roll Call<\/a>, which quoted the Republican Wilson as saying this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI am considering running for the Senate, as well as other opportunities. A number of factors go into that. Ultimately it\u2019s a decision about what is the best use of my talents and gifts.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/bingaman.senate.gov\">Jeff Bingaman<\/a>, D-N.M., hasn\u2019t announced whether he will seek another term in 2012, but he held a fundraiser last month and raised about $400,000. His spokesman says he\u2019s expected to announce his plans\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/11\/expect-bingaman-to-announce-2012-plans-in-march\/\">in March<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Two less-known Republicans \u2013 Greg Sowards and William S. English \u2013 have already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/12\/sowards-announces-candidacy-for-senate\/\">announced their candidacies<\/a> for the Senate seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson says she\u2019s considering running for U.S. Senate in 2012 and \u201cother 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":[156,116],"class_list":["post-24763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2012-election","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24763","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=24763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24763\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}