{"id":2980,"date":"2008-03-15T15:21:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-15T21:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/wolfe-quits-first-congressional-district-race\/"},"modified":"2008-03-15T15:21:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-15T21:21:00","slug":"wolfe-quits-first-congressional-district-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/wolfe-quits-first-congressional-district-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfe quits First Congressional District race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jessicafornewmexico.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jessica Wolfe<\/a>, a former cabinet aide to Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a>, announced today that she\u2019s dropping her bid for Congress and will instead run for a state Senate seat this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Wolfe had been one of five Democrats seeking to replace <a href=\"http:\/\/wilson.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a> in Congress. She announced at the end of her speech at today\u2019s preprimary nominating convention in Rio Rancho that she was leaving the race. She plans instead to run for the <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/DistrictMaps\/2002SenateDistricts\/Senate21.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">District 21<\/a> state Senate seat currently held by <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=257&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Kent Cravens<\/a>, R-Albuquerque.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Her exit from the race leaves Democrats <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinheinrich.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Heinrich<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michellelujangrishamforcongress.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Lujan-Grisham<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/robertpidcockforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Pidcock<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccaforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Vigil-Giron<\/a> vying for the support of delegates at today\u2019s convention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Voting is currently underway at the Democratic convention in Rio Rancho and the GOP convention in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. I\u2019ll post results as soon as they are available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Wolfe, a former cabinet aide to Gov. Bill Richardson, announced today that she\u2019s dropping her bid for Congress and will instead run for a state Senate seat this year. Wolfe had been one of five Democrats seeking to replace Heather Wilson in Congress. She announced at the end of her speech at today\u2019s preprimary [&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-2980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980","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=2980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}