{"id":2865,"date":"2008-02-13T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-13T07:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/02\/candidates-file-for-u-s-house-senate-races\/"},"modified":"2008-02-13T01:28:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-13T07:28:00","slug":"candidates-file-for-u-s-house-senate-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/02\/candidates-file-for-u-s-house-senate-races\/","title":{"rendered":"Candidates file for U.S. House, Senate races"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/o:p>Three New Mexicans who had previously announced their candidacies for federal offices didn\u2019t file to run on Tuesday, putting an end to their short-lived campaigns. <\/p>\n

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Democrat Lehland Lehrman<\/a> and Republican Tom Benavides<\/a>, who had announced their candidacies for U.S. Senate, failed to file and gave no indication of why they hadn\u2019t collected the signatures to get on the ballot. Republican Bob Cornelius<\/a>, who had announced his candidacy for the Second Congressional District House seat, announced shortly before Tuesday\u2019s 5 p.m. filing deadline that he was ending his campaign.<\/p>\n

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In dropping out, Cornelius endorsed Terry Marquardt<\/a>, one of 28 Democrats and Republicans who did file on Tuesday to run this year for one of New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>\u2019s four open seats in Congress \u2013 one in the Senate and three in the House. There were no other surprises on filing day. Here\u2019s the list of those who filed to run:<\/p>\n

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U.S.<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> Senate<\/span><\/p>\n

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Democrats<\/span>
\u2022 Tom Udall<\/a>, U.S.<\/st1:country-region> representative<\/p>\n

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Republicans<\/span>
\u2022 Steve Pearce<\/a>, U.S.<\/st1:country-region> representative
\u2022 Heather Wilson<\/a>, U.S.<\/st1:country-region> representative<\/p>\n

First Congressional District<\/span><\/p>\n

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Democrats<\/span>
\u2022 Martin Heinrich<\/a>, former Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> city councilor
\u2022 Michelle Lujan-Grisham<\/a>, former state health secretary
\u2022 Robert Pidcock<\/a>, Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> attorney
\u2022 Rebecca Vigil-Giron<\/a>, former secretary of state
\u2022 Jessica Wolfe<\/a>, former cabinet aide to Gov. Bill Richardson<\/p>\n

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Republicans<\/span>
\u2022 Joe Carraro<\/a>, state senator
\u2022 Darren White<\/a>, Bernalillo<\/st1:placename> County<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> sheriff<\/p>\n

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Second Congressional District<\/span><\/p>\n

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Democrats<\/span>
\u2022 Al Kissling<\/a>, retired Presbyterian pastor
\u2022 Bill McCamley<\/a>, Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> Ana<\/st1:placename> County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> commissioner
\u2022 Frank McKinnon<\/a>, Roswell<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> businessman and retired teacher
\u2022 Harry Teague<\/a>, former Lea<\/st1:placename> County<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> commissioner<\/p>\n

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Republicans<\/span>
\u2022 Aubrey Dunn Jr.<\/a>, rancher and retired banker
\u2022 C. Earl Greer<\/a>, former Sierra County GOP chair
\u2022 Terry Marquardt<\/a>, former state representative
\u2022 Monty Newman<\/a>, Hobbs<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> mayor
\u2022 Greg Sowards<\/a>, owner of several Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> daycare centers
\u2022 Ed Tinsley<\/a>, restaurant-chain owner and rancher<\/p>\n

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Third Congressional District<\/span><\/p>\n

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Democrats<\/span>
\u2022 Jon Adams<\/a>, attorney
\u2022 Ben R. Luj\u00e1n<\/a>, Public Regulation Commission chairman
\u2022 Rudy Martin<\/a>, Dixon<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> attorney
\u2022 Harry Montoya<\/a>, Santa Fe<\/st1:placename> County<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place> commissioner
\u2022 Benny Shendo Jr.<\/a>, former cabinet secretary for the state\u2019s Indian Affairs Department
\u2022 Don Wiviott<\/a>, green builder <\/p>\n

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Republicans<\/span>
\u2022 Marco Gonzales<\/a>, attorney
\u2022 Daniel East<\/a>, Rio Rancho contractor<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three New Mexicans who had previously announced their candidacies for federal offices didn\u2019t file to run on Tuesday, putting an end to their short-lived campaigns. Democrat Lehland Lehrman and Republican Tom Benavides, who had announced their candidacies for U.S. Senate, failed to file and gave no indication of why they hadn\u2019t collected the signatures to […]<\/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-2865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865","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=2865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}