{"id":28492,"date":"2011-04-19T06:58:40","date_gmt":"2011-04-19T12:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=28492"},"modified":"2011-04-19T06:58:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-19T12:58:44","slug":"keller-won%e2%80%99t-run-for-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/04\/keller-won%e2%80%99t-run-for-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Keller won\u2019t run for Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_27867\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-27867\" title=\"Keller, Tim\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Keller-Tim.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Tim Keller (Photo by Peter St. Cyr)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>State Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SKELL\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Keller<\/a>, D-Albuquerque, announced today that he won\u2019t run for the U.S. House seat being vacated by <a href=\"http:\/\/heinrich.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Heinrich<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany thanks to all of you that have been encouraging me to run for Congress,\u201d Keller wrote early this morning in an e-mail to supporters. \u201cI greatly appreciate your enthusiasm!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLiz and I remain passionate about local public service, but rather than congress I will be running for re-election to the NM senate next year,\u201d he wrote. \u201cThank you again for your continued support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No Democrats have formally entered the race to replace Heinrich, but state Sen.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SGRIR\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Griego<\/a> of Albuquerque has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/04\/griego-expects-heinrich-to-run-for-senate-forms-exploratory-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\">formed an exploratory committee<\/a> as he considers the race. In addition, state Rep.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HMAES\" target=\"_blank\">Antonio \u201cMoe\u201d Maestas<\/a> of Albuquerque and Terry Brunner, U.S. Sen.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bingaman.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Bingaman\u2019s<\/a> former state director who now heads USDA Rural Development in New Mexico, say they are seriously considering running.<\/p>\n<p>On the Republican side, Albuquerque City Councilor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danlewis2012.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Lewis<\/a> has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/04\/lewis-formally-enters-congressional-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">entered the race<\/a>, and\u00a0former gubernatorial candidate and state Rep.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.janicearnoldjones.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Janice Arnold-Jones<\/a> of Albuquerque has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/03\/arnold-jones-forms-congressional-exploratory-committee\/\" target=\"_blank\">formed an exploratory committee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Heinrich is giving up the House seat to run for Bingaman\u2019s Senate seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Sen. Tim Keller, D-Albuquerque, announced today that he won\u2019t run for the U.S. House seat being vacated by Martin Heinrich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[156,107,116],"class_list":["post-28492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-roundhouse","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28492","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=28492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}