{"id":2857,"date":"2008-02-11T11:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-11T17:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/02\/county-gop-chair-steps-down-cites-personal-reasons\/"},"modified":"2008-02-11T11:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-11T17:47:00","slug":"county-gop-chair-steps-down-cites-personal-reasons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/02\/county-gop-chair-steps-down-cites-personal-reasons\/","title":{"rendered":"County GOP chair steps down, cites personal reasons"},"content":{"rendered":"

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After three years at the helm, Sid Goddard resigned Saturday from the position of chair of The Republican Party of Do\u00f1a Ana County<\/a>, citing personal reasons.<\/p>\n

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The party\u2019s vice chair, Mark Van Dyke, has been named interim chair, and hopes to have the \u201cinterim\u201d stripped from his title when the party elects a new chair at its March 8 meeting.<\/p>\n

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Goddard, who had a year left on his second, two-year term as party chair, notified Republicans of his resignation during the party\u2019s Saturday meeting.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy reasons are personal and beyond that I will say nothing to anyone,\u201d Goddard said in an interview. \u201cIt did not have anything to do with being disgruntled or upset or anything like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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During Goddard\u2019s tenure, the party became more visible and active in the community, becoming a member of the Greater Las Cruces Chamber of Commerce and Hispano Chamber of Commerce de Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, updating its Web site<\/a> and moving to a new office on Wyatt Drive<\/st1:address><\/st1:street>. The party also increased the numbers of Hispanics and young people who are registered Republicans, Goddard said.<\/p>\n

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Goddard was also active in pushing the Do\u00f1a Ana County Board of Commissioners<\/a> in recent years to take steps to improve county elections. His call for action helped lead the commission in 2006 to form a task force to study problems with elections and recommend solutions.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think standing up before the commission and recommending that they form a bipartisan group, I thought that was something that I did in a nonpartisan way that has paid dividends for the residents of the county,\u201d Goddard said. \u201cVery proud of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

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During that process, Clerk Rita Torres hired Lynn Ellins to run the elections bureau. Goddard said Ellins has done a good job and it has been \u201ca lot of fun\u201d to work with the elections bureau under Ellins\u2019 leadership.<\/p>\n

<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Van Dyke praised Goddard\u2019s involvement in the county election-reform process.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI truly think his legacy of pushing for election reform, which germinated into the election task force, resulted in kind of a new way of doing business here in the county,\u201d Van Dyke said. <\/p>\n

<\/o:p><\/p>\n

He said there is more to do, but he is pleased with the direction of the county\u2019s party.<\/p>\n

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Goddard said he doesn\u2019t know whether anyone besides Van Dyke will seek the chairmanship, and he didn\u2019t endorse Van Dyke\u2019s candidacy, but he did say Van Dyke \u201chas always had my complete confidence. He\u2019s done a great job.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After three years at the helm, Sid Goddard resigned Saturday from the position of chair of The Republican Party of Do\u00f1a Ana County, citing personal reasons. The party\u2019s vice chair, Mark Van Dyke, has been named interim chair, and hopes to have the \u201cinterim\u201d stripped from his title when the party elects a new chair […]<\/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-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","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=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}