{"id":2553,"date":"2007-11-26T08:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/11\/grant-county-commissioner-appointed-to-legislature\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T08:58:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T14:58:00","slug":"grant-county-commissioner-appointed-to-legislature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/11\/grant-county-commissioner-appointed-to-legislature\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant county commissioner appointed to Legislature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> on Wednesday appointed Grant County Commission Chairman and Bayard Mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grantcountynm.com\/ctycomm.html?\" target=\"_blank\">Rodolpho \u201cRudy\u201d Martinez<\/a> to replace Manuel Herrera as the <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/DistrictMaps\/2002HouseDistricts\/House39.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">District 39<\/a> representative in the New Mexico House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cRodolpho Martinez is a proven and trusted leader, I am confident that he will serve the constituents of Grant and <st1:state st=\"on\">Hidalgo<\/st1:state> counties well,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said in a news release. \u201cHis legislative experience will be a valuable asset to the New Mexico House of Representatives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Herrera died in October following a long battle with cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Martinez<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is the facility services manager for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmprc.state.nm.us\/cgi-bin\/prcdtl.cgi?2574887+GEO+CARE+INC\" target=\"_blank\">GEO Care, Inc.<\/a> and a volunteer firefighter. He also worked for Chino Mines for more than 30 years. He has a bachelor\u2019s degree from <st1:placename st=\"on\">Western<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">University<\/st1:placetype>, is a graduate of <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Cobre<\/st1:placename>  <st1:placetype st=\"on\">High School<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> in Bayard and is an Air Force veteran.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Martinez<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s term began Wednesday. He\u2019ll have to seek re-election next year if he wants to keep the seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson on Wednesday appointed Grant County Commission Chairman and Bayard Mayor Rodolpho \u201cRudy\u201d Martinez to replace Manuel Herrera as the District 39 representative in the New Mexico House. \u201cRodolpho Martinez is a proven and trusted leader, I am confident that he will serve the constituents of Grant and Hidalgo counties well,\u201d Richardson said [&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-2553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553","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=2553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}