{"id":29661,"date":"2011-06-01T11:58:58","date_gmt":"2011-06-01T17:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=29661"},"modified":"2011-06-01T11:59:04","modified_gmt":"2011-06-01T17:59:04","slug":"councilor-thomas-won%e2%80%99t-seek-another-term","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/06\/councilor-thomas-won%e2%80%99t-seek-another-term\/","title":{"rendered":"Councilor Thomas won\u2019t seek another term"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_20579\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-20579\" title=\"Thomas, Sharon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Thomas-Sharon.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sharon Thomas<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Las Cruces City Councilor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.las-cruces.org\/Government\/Legislative\/City%20Council\/District%206.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Sharon Thomas<\/a> says she won\u2019t run for mayor this year and will give up her seat in 2013 rather than seeking another term.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas, who represents District 6 on the council, made the announcement in a recent e-mail to constituents. Asked by NMPolitics.net about her decision to not seek another term, she said this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI turned 70 last year and will be 73 in 2013. That\u2019s too old to keep up this pace. Also, my kids used to live in Las Cruces or, at least, in N.M.\u00a0Now, the\u00a0one who lived in Las Cruces has moved to Albuquerque and the one who lived in Santa Fe has moved\u00a0to Livingston, Mt. I want to have time to spend with family, to travel, etc. Too difficult to do that with a meeting every week.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.las-cruces.org\/Government\/Legislative\/Mayor.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Miyagishima<\/a> is seeking re-election later this year. District 2 Councilor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.las-cruces.org\/Government\/Legislative\/City%20Council\/District%202.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Dolores Connor<\/a> is running against him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Cruces City Councilor Sharon Thomas says she won\u2019t run for mayor this year and will give up her seat in 2013 rather than seeking another term.<\/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":[145],"class_list":["post-29661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-las-cruces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29661","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=29661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}