{"id":2540,"date":"2007-11-15T09:03:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-15T15:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/11\/griego-to-kick-off-campaign-to-unseat-state-senator\/"},"modified":"2007-11-15T09:03:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-15T15:03:00","slug":"griego-to-kick-off-campaign-to-unseat-state-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/11\/griego-to-kick-off-campaign-to-unseat-state-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"Griego to kick off campaign to unseat state senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Former Albuquerque City Councilor Eric Griego plans to kick off his campaign to unseat state Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=232&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">James Taylor<\/a>, D-Albuquerque, on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Griego plans to launch his campaign at the home of Ron Romero, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;time=&amp;date=&amp;ttype=&amp;q=1106+Santa+Fe+SW,+albuquerque&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=37.410045,61.171875&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=35.075702,-106.661024&amp;spn=0.009448,0.014935&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;om=1\" target=\"_blank\">1106 Santa Fe SW<\/a>, in <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/DistrictMaps\/2002SenateDistricts\/Senate14.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Senate District 14<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI believe we need leadership in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Santa Fe<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> that stands up to the specials interests,\u201d Griego said. \u201cI will fight for affordable health care for all, better schools for our kids and the resources our district needs for roads, parks and community facilities. With the right leadership, real progressive reform can happen at the state level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Griego is currently the executive director of the non-profit advocacy group <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmvoices.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Mexico Voices for Children<\/a>. Before starting that job, he worked for the state Economic Development Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Senate district follows the <st1:city st=\"on\">Rio Grande<\/st1:city> from southern <st1:city st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:city> through the <st1:placename st=\"on\">South<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">Valley<\/st1:placetype> and past Isleta <st1:city st=\"on\">Pueblo<\/st1:city> to <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Valencia<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Albuquerque City Councilor Eric Griego plans to kick off his campaign to unseat state Sen. James Taylor, D-Albuquerque, on Sunday. Griego plans to launch his campaign at the home of Ron Romero, 1106 Santa Fe SW, in Senate District 14. \u201cI believe we need leadership in Santa Fe that stands up to the specials [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540","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=2540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2540\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}