{"id":28633,"date":"2011-04-21T15:15:11","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T21:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=28633"},"modified":"2011-04-21T15:16:38","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T21:16:38","slug":"balderas-will-enter-senate-race-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/04\/balderas-will-enter-senate-race-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Balderas will launch Senate campaign next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8844\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8844\" title=\"Balderas, Hector\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Balderas-Hector.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"234\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">State Auditor Hector Balderas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>State Auditor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saonm.org\/about-hector-balderas\" target=\"_blank\">Hector Balderas<\/a> filed paperwork today declaring his candidacy for the U.S. Senate, and he plans to formally announce his campaign next week, NMPolitics.net has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The move was expected, and it means Balderas and U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinheinrich.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Heinrich<\/a> will square off in a hotly contested battle for the Democratic Party\u2019s U.S. Senate nomination. Also in the primary race is little-known community activist\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/abqnews\/abqnewseeker-mainmenu-39\/27497-community-activist-andres-valdez-plans-senate-bid.html\" target=\"_blank\">Andres Valdez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>On the Republican side, former U.S. Rep.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherwilson.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a> and two lesser-known candidates \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.senate2012.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Sowards<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.billenglish4senate.org\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">William S. English<\/a> \u2013 have entered the race. Lt. Gov.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltgovernor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Sanchez<\/a> is\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/03\/sanchez-is-%E2%80%98seriously-considering%E2%80%99-senate-run\/\" target=\"_blank\">seriously considering<\/a> entering the race, and U.S. Rep.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pearce.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a> says he\u2019s also considering running.<\/p>\n<p>Balderas, a rising star in the Democratic Party, was elected last year to serve a second four-year term as state auditor, so he doesn\u2019t have to give up that seat to run. If his Senate campaign isn\u2019t successful, he can continue serving as auditor.<\/p>\n<p>Heinrich, on the other hand, is giving up his House seat to run for Senate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Auditor Hector Balderas filed paperwork today declaring his candidacy for the U.S. Senate, and he plans to formally announce his campaign next week, NMPolitics.net has learned.<\/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-28633","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\/28633","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=28633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}