{"id":2994,"date":"2008-03-17T12:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T18:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/marquardt-says-he-plans-to-stay-in-cd2-race\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T12:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T18:38:00","slug":"marquardt-says-he-plans-to-stay-in-cd2-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/marquardt-says-he-plans-to-stay-in-cd2-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Marquardt says he plans to stay in CD2 race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R966vWameeI\/AAAAAAAAFQY\/H91_bCOQstU\/s1600-h\/Marquardt,+Terry.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R966vWameeI\/AAAAAAAAFQY\/H91_bCOQstU\/s200\/Marquardt,+Terry.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178781944156420578\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrymarquardt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Terry Marquardt<\/a> plans to stay in the race to replace <a href=\"http:\/\/pearce.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a> in Congress despite getting the votes of only two delegates at Saturday\u2019s Republican preprimary nominating convention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThe campaign moves forward,\u201d he said in an e-mail. \u201cAt this point, we have much work ahead of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Marquardt said he needs to submit 817 signatures by March 25 to stay in the race. My calculations are that he needs 804 signatures, based on information I was provided by the Secretary of State\u2019s Office. Either way, Marquardt says he has already gathered more than enough signatures to stay on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/aubreydunn.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aubrey Dunn Jr.<\/a> won Saturday\u2019s Republican Second Congressional District preprimary nominating contest with 30 percent of the vote. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earlgreer.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">C. Earl Greer<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edtinsleyforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Tinsley<\/a> each had 24 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Of the candidates who didn\u2019t reach the 20-percent threshold needed to qualify for the ballot, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montyforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Monty Newman<\/a> had just under 19 percent of the vote, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shortbaldhonest.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Sowards<\/a> tied Marquardt. Each had two votes, or about 1 percent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"font-style: italic;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">A prior version of this posting incorrectly stated that Dunn won 40 percent of the vote at the preprimary convention. He won 40 votes, which was 30 percent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Terry Marquardt plans to stay in the race to replace Steve Pearce in Congress despite getting the votes of only two delegates at Saturday\u2019s Republican preprimary nominating convention. \u201cThe campaign moves forward,\u201d he said in an e-mail. \u201cAt this point, we have much work ahead of us.\u201d Marquardt said he needs to submit 817 signatures [&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-2994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994","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=2994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}