{"id":2745,"date":"2008-01-15T22:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T04:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/01\/district-6-voters-overwhelmingly-pick-thomas\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T22:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T04:14:00","slug":"district-6-voters-overwhelmingly-pick-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/01\/district-6-voters-overwhelmingly-pick-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"District 6 voters overwhelmingly pick Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Sharon Thomas<\/a> secured more than 54 percent of the vote today in becoming the new District 6<\/a> representative on the Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> City Council. <\/p>\n

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Of 2,448 votes cast, Thomas had 1,322, or 54 percent, to Karen Trujillo\u2019s<\/a> 578 votes, or 24 percent.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think that people really want change and they went out and voted,\u201d Thomas said. \u201cPeople want the city to have some new leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Lawrence Joy<\/a> finished with 240 votes, or 10 percent, while Berchard Ray Shipley finished with 207 votes, or 8 percent, and Patrick J. Curran finished with 101 votes, or 4 percent.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Thomas spoke by phone from a volunteer appreciation party attended by 50-60 people. She said she has \u201clost count\u201d of how many people helped her campaign. She expected to come out ahead tonight, but didn\u2019t know if she would secure the 40 percent necessary to avoid a runoff.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI figured that I would win by a whole lot or it would be too close and it would be a runoff,\u201d she said. \u201cBut we were getting very good response.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Thomas\u2019 election means a well-organized group of activists \u2013 in the November election and tonight \u2013 have successfully convinced Las Cruces voters to make candidates they backed the majority on the council. Many of the people who helped Thomas are members of the Quality Growth Alliance<\/a> she helped found, and they were also instrumental in the November elections of former District 6 Councilor Ken Miyagishima<\/a> as mayor and of Miguel Silva<\/a> and Nathan Small<\/a> to the council.<\/p>\n

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Update, 10:05 p.m.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m planning an in-depth analysis piece on Thomas\u2019 victory, but if you want the quick version, you can listen to my interview with Radio Las Cruces by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Sharon Thomas secured more than 54 percent of the vote today in becoming the new District 6 representative on the Las Cruces City Council. Of 2,448 votes cast, Thomas had 1,322, or 54 percent, to Karen Trujillo\u2019s 578 votes, or 24 percent. \u201cI think that people really want change and they went out and voted,\u201d […]<\/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-2745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745","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=2745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}