{"id":2558,"date":"2007-11-26T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-26T21:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/11\/city-will-hold-district-6-special-election-on-jan-15\/"},"modified":"2007-11-26T15:08:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-26T21:08:00","slug":"city-will-hold-district-6-special-election-on-jan-15","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/11\/city-will-hold-district-6-special-election-on-jan-15\/","title":{"rendered":"City will hold District 6 special election on Jan. 15"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The City of Las Cruces<\/a> last week set Jan. 15 as the date for its special election to replace former District 6 Councilor Ken Miyagishima<\/a>, who was elected mayor earlier this month. <\/p>\n

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Only residents living in District 6<\/a> will be eligible to vote. The deadline for candidates to file is Dec. 4. Candidates must be registered voters living in the district and collect 25 signatures from qualified District 6 voters to run.<\/p>\n

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Absentee voting by mail begins Dec. 19. In-person early voting begins Dec. 26 and will be held at the City Clerk\u2019s office, located in the basement of City Hall, 200 North Church Street<\/a>. Early voting will be held Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. and on three Saturdays \u2013 Dec. 29, Jan. 5 and Jan. 12 \u2013 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.<\/p>\n

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Polls will be open on Election Day from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Precincts 67 and 102 will vote at Camino Real Middle School, 2961 Roadrunner Parkway<\/a>. Precincts 103 and 106 will vote at Desert Hills Elementary, 280 Roadrunner Parkway<\/a>. Precincts 68, 69 and 70 will vote at Hillrise Elementary, 1400 S. Curnutt Street<\/a>. Precincts 71 and 73 will vote at Good Samaritan, 3011 Buena Vida Circle<\/a>. Precinct 26 will vote at American Legion Post No. 10, 1185 E. Madrid Ave<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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For more information, call the city clerk at 541-2115.<\/p>\n

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Candidates considering running include Pat Curran, a former county magistrate judge; Edward Fernandez, a former Las Cruces Public Schools<\/a> administrator; Lawrence Joy<\/a>, who owns a direct-marketing business and is the announcer for the New Mexico State University marching band at Aggie football games; Sherry Thomas, head of the Quality Growth Alliance<\/a>; and Karen R. Trujillo<\/a>, a real-estate broker and president of the Hispano Chamber of Commerce de Las Cruces<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The City of Las Cruces last week set Jan. 15 as the date for its special election to replace former District 6 Councilor Ken Miyagishima, who was elected mayor earlier this month. Only residents living in District 6 will be eligible to vote. The deadline for candidates to file is Dec. 4. Candidates must be […]<\/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-2558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558","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=2558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}