{"id":2628,"date":"2007-12-11T11:54:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-11T17:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/12\/valdes-rodriguez-decides-against-congressional-run\/"},"modified":"2007-12-11T11:54:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-11T17:54:00","slug":"valdes-rodriguez-decides-against-congressional-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/12\/valdes-rodriguez-decides-against-congressional-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Valdes-Rodriguez decides against congressional run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R17PDrF275I\/AAAAAAAAEMo\/Cj_PoyDI5T4\/s1600-h\/Valdes-Rodriguez,+Alisa.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R17PDrF275I\/AAAAAAAAEMo\/Cj_PoyDI5T4\/s200\/Valdes-Rodriguez,+Alisa.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142775486517538706\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A nationally known fiction writer who was testing the waters for a run at the First Congressional District seat being vacated by <a href=\"http:\/\/wilson.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a> has decided against running and is instead endorsing the candidacy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinheinrich.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Heinrich<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alisavaldesrodriguez.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez<\/a>, author of the New York Times bestseller Dirty Girls Social Club and other books, wrote on <a href=\"http:\/\/alisavaldesrodriguez.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/decision.html\" target=\"_blank\">her blog<\/a> on Saturday that she has decided against running.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThere are a few reasons, but the main one is that I have decided to homeschool my six-year-old son,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThat said, I want to publicly put my support behind Martin Heinrich in the race. He would do an outstanding job, and he\u2019d look good doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI have not ruled out someday running for public office,\u201d Valdes-Rodriguez wrote. \u201cI have only ruled it out for now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On the Democratic side, Heinrich is joined in the race by attorney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonadamsforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Adams<\/a>, teacher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.call4democracy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Call<\/a> and former state Health Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michellelujangrishamforcongress.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Lujan Grisham<\/a>. Republicans running are state Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senatorcarraro.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Carraro<\/a> and Bernalillo County Sheriff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenwhiteforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darren White<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nationally known fiction writer who was testing the waters for a run at the First Congressional District seat being vacated by Heather Wilson has decided against running and is instead endorsing the candidacy of Martin Heinrich. Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, author of the New York Times bestseller Dirty Girls Social Club and other books, wrote on [&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-2628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628","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=2628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}