{"id":2921,"date":"2008-02-27T15:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-27T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/02\/community-leader-wants-to-replace-carraro-in-senate\/"},"modified":"2008-02-27T15:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-27T21:39:00","slug":"community-leader-wants-to-replace-carraro-in-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/02\/community-leader-wants-to-replace-carraro-in-senate\/","title":{"rendered":"Community leader wants to replace Carraro in Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Sander Rue, a community leader on Albuquerque\u2019s west side, announced today that he\u2019s running for the <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/DistrictMaps\/2002SenateDistricts\/Senate23.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">District 23<\/a> state Senate seat being vacated by <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=255&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Carraro<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Carraro is running for Congress and has said he won\u2019t seek re-election to the state Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI\u2019ve lived in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> for 45 years and in District 23 for 14 years, and I understand the challenges that our neighborhoods face,\u201d said Rue, 54 and a Republican. \u201cAs our next state senator, I\u2019ll fight to improve our roads, cut taxes to create more jobs and reduce overcrowding in our west-side schools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Rue, a small businessman, is the founding president and current vice president of the Rancho Sereno Neighborhood Association. He\u2019s also a member of the board of directors for Petroglyph Little League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Rue has served on the City of <st1:city st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:city>\u2019s open space and ethics boards and the City of <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Albuquerque\/Bernalillo County Unification Charter Commission<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. He has a bachelor\u2019s degree in business administration from the <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placetype st=\"on\">University<\/st1:placetype> of <st1:placename st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>, is married and has four children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sander Rue, a community leader on Albuquerque\u2019s west side, announced today that he\u2019s running for the District 23 state Senate seat being vacated by Joe Carraro. Carraro is running for Congress and has said he won\u2019t seek re-election to the state Senate. \u201cI\u2019ve lived in Albuquerque for 45 years and in District 23 for 14 [&hellip;]<\/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-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","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=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}