{"id":2998,"date":"2008-03-17T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T22:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/newman-says-its-full-steam-ahead-in-cd2-race\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T16:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T22:50:00","slug":"newman-says-its-full-steam-ahead-in-cd2-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/newman-says-its-full-steam-ahead-in-cd2-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Newman says it’s ‘full steam ahead’ in CD2 race"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Monty Newman<\/a> says his campaign to become the next representative of the Second Congressional District of New Mexico is moving forward even after he narrowly missed qualifying for the ballot at Saturday\u2019s Republican preprimary nominating convention. <\/p>\n

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\u201cWe expect to file at least 1,500 signatures when we officially qualify for the Republican primary in 10 days,\u201d Newman said in a news release. \u201cWe are ecstatic with the overwhelming support we\u2019ve gotten directly from the voters. When over 1,500 voters say \u2018We want you to run,\u2019 you have to listen. My record in Hobbs<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> and my sincere conservative message is resonating loud and clear.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Aubrey Dunn Jr.<\/a> won Saturday\u2019s contest with the support of 40 delegates, or 30 percent. C. Earl Greer<\/a> and Ed Tinsley<\/a> each qualified for the ballot with 33 votes, or 24 percent.<\/p>\n

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Newman fell two votes short of qualifying, getting 25 votes, or 18.5 percent. He\u2019ll need to submit the signatures of 804 registered Republicans living in the Second Congressional District by March 25 to appear on the June ballot.<\/p>\n

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Newman\u2019s campaign claimed in the news release that he \u201cexceeded all expectations\u201d at the convention, and revealed publicly for the first time that he has raised almost $200,000 for the race, \u201cwith most of the funds coming from registered voters within New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. This is in stark contrast to his two major opponents who have relied upon self-funding and out-of-state special interests to finance their campaigns.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve only been in the race for a few weeks,\u201d Newman said. \u201cAnd most of my opponents were predicting slam-dunk runaway victories. That didn\u2019t happen. We finished just eight votes behind candidates who have been campaigning for nearly six years for this seat and just two votes shy of the 20-percent mark. My campaign just started reaching out to delegates 10 days ago. Such a strong showing makes me confident in our campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cI have never lost an election,\u201d said Newman, the Hobbs<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> mayor. \u201cWhen voters see who I am, they realize that my values and beliefs are deeply rooted and do not sway with the wind. In the end, voters want a leader who will not bend to the polls and say anything to get elected. My sincerity will make the difference, and that\u2019s why I\u2019ve collected so many petitions and beat everyone\u2019s expectations at the state convention.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Monty Newman says his campaign to become the next representative of the Second Congressional District of New Mexico is moving forward even after he narrowly missed qualifying for the ballot at Saturday\u2019s Republican preprimary nominating convention. \u201cWe expect to file at least 1,500 signatures when we officially qualify for the Republican primary in 10 days,\u201d […]<\/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-2998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998","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=2998"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2998\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}