{"id":25073,"date":"2011-01-13T14:36:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T21:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=25073"},"modified":"2011-01-13T14:37:56","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T21:37:56","slug":"cote-is-trying-to-get-back-to-santa-fe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/01\/cote-is-trying-to-get-back-to-santa-fe\/","title":{"rendered":"Cote is trying to get back to Santa Fe"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9314\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9314\" title=\"Cote, Nate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Cote-Nate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nate Cote<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Just over two months after losing his House seat in the November election, former state Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nathan_P._Cote\">Nate Cote<\/a> is trying to make his way back into the Legislature.<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Do\u00f1a Ana County Board of Commissioners have voted unanimously to recommend that Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.governor.state.nm.us\">Susana Martinez<\/a> appoint Cote to replace former State Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sos.state.nm.us\/\">Dianna Duran<\/a>, R-Tularosa, who became secretary of state earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The problem for Cote? He\u2019s a Democrat, and the governor is a Republican. The Senate district is located in both Do\u00f1a Ana and Otero counties, and the Otero County Board of Commissioners has recommended that Martinez appoint Republican Bill Burt of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.burtbroadcasting.net\/index.html\">Burt Broadcasting<\/a> to replace Duran.<\/p>\n<p>By law, Martinez must choose one of the candidates recommended by the county commissions.<\/p>\n<p>Cote is a realist, saying though he has some legislation drafted he knows his odds of winning the appointment are \u201cslim.\u201d But he points out that parts of the Senate district overlap with the House district he used to represent, and he\u2019s familiar with the area and its needs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve held my share of town hall meetings, know the city and county commissioners (even received a proclamation and had a day named after me by the city commission in December),\u201d Cote said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are at least giving the new governor a choice, and I am more than certain I could work with her,\u201d Cote said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just over two months after losing his House seat in the November election, former state Rep. Nate Cote is trying to make his way back into the Legislature.<\/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":[115,107],"class_list":["post-25073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-dona-ana-county","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25073","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=25073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}