{"id":2589,"date":"2007-12-03T11:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-03T17:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/12\/one-legislative-campaign-begins-another-ramps-up\/"},"modified":"2007-12-03T11:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-03T17:32:00","slug":"one-legislative-campaign-begins-another-ramps-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/12\/one-legislative-campaign-begins-another-ramps-up\/","title":{"rendered":"One legislative campaign begins, another ramps up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A GOP educator has formally announced his campaign to replace <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=212&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Brian Moore<\/a> in the New Mexico House, and a Democrat who has been in the race to unseat state Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=264&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Clinton Harden<\/a> for some time is ramping up his campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Dennis J. Roch, assistant superintendent for the Tucumcari Schools, announced his candidacy fro the <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/DistrictMaps\/2002HouseDistricts\/House67.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">District 67<\/a> House seat on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cDennis knows the district and the issues,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Moore<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said in a release from Roch. \u201cHe will make a superb representative for northeastern <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:state st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Roch plans to make education the centerpiece of his campaign, saying \u201c<st1:state st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:state> residents want decisions about their children\u2019s schools made by local boards of education, not by bureaucrats in <st1:city st=\"on\">Santa Fe<\/st1:city> or <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In addition to being a professional educator, Roch has been a member of the state Public Education Commission since 2004 and chaired it since 2006. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Roch also cited agriculture, respect for property rights and the Second Amendment as important issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A graduate of <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Eastern<\/st1:placename>  <st1:placename st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">University<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> in Portales, Roch served on the staffs of U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/domenici.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Domenici<\/a> and former U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bill_Redmond\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Redmond<\/a> before pursuing a career in public education.<span style=\"\">  <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.votejeffcarr.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Carr<\/a> has been campaigning for the <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/DistrictMaps\/2002SenateDistricts\/Senate7.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">District 7<\/a> Senate seat currently held by the Republican Harden for months. In a weekend e-mail to supporters, he sought to widen knowledge of his campaign and asked for contributions. Harden narrowly won re-election in 2004.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cMany of you have already seen me working hard on the campaign trail, and I hope that shows you I will work just as hard for you,\u201d Carr wrote. \u201cThis election is not about me. It is about us, the people of District 7 and <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:state st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>. I will put the interests of the people of this state first, just like I put my family, my students and my honor in serving this country in uniform before my own benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A GOP educator has formally announced his campaign to replace Brian Moore in the New Mexico House, and a Democrat who has been in the race to unseat state Sen. Clinton Harden for some time is ramping up his campaign. Dennis J. Roch, assistant superintendent for the Tucumcari Schools, announced his candidacy fro the District [&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-2589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589","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=2589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}