{"id":2996,"date":"2008-03-17T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T21:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/mckinnon-wont-try-to-stay-in-cd2-race\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T21:01:00","slug":"mckinnon-wont-try-to-stay-in-cd2-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/mckinnon-wont-try-to-stay-in-cd2-race\/","title":{"rendered":"McKinnon won&#8217;t try to stay in CD2 race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R97caWamegI\/AAAAAAAAFQo\/xFH5rW8bgBQ\/s1600-h\/McKinnon,+Frank.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R97caWamegI\/AAAAAAAAFQo\/xFH5rW8bgBQ\/s200\/McKinnon,+Frank.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178818966774512130\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankmckinnonforcongress.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Frank McKinnon<\/a> won\u2019t attempt to stay in the race to replace <a href=\"http:\/\/pearce.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a> in Congress after receiving only 1 percent of the vote at Saturday\u2019s Democratic preprimary nominating convention.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cIt looks like Pete Domenici and George W. Bush have succeeded in helping the nuclear industry buy all Democratic candidates for the congressional seat of <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>\u2019s District 2,\u201d McKinnon wrote in an e-mail and a posting on his campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankmckinnonforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Web site<\/a>. \u201cHaving Tom Udall as a senator may be enough to override any damage that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billmccamley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill McCamley<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harryteagueforcongress08.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Teague<\/a> may do. I hope so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">McKinnon said his campaign Web site would be taken down in the next couple of weeks.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">While McKinnon secured only 1 percent of the vote, McCamley won 49 percent, Teague won 36 percent and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kisslingforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Al Kissling<\/a> received about 13 percent of the vote. McKinnon would have had to submit the signatures of 1,184 registered Democrats living in the Second Congressional District to continue in the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Frank McKinnon won\u2019t attempt to stay in the race to replace Steve Pearce in Congress after receiving only 1 percent of the vote at Saturday\u2019s Democratic preprimary nominating convention. \u201cIt looks like Pete Domenici and George W. Bush have succeeded in helping the nuclear industry buy all Democratic candidates for the congressional seat of New [&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-2996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996","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=2996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}