{"id":3004,"date":"2008-03-18T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-18T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/marquardt-changes-mind-drops-congressional-bid\/"},"modified":"2008-03-18T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-18T19:23:00","slug":"marquardt-changes-mind-drops-congressional-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/marquardt-changes-mind-drops-congressional-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Marquardt changes mind, drops congressional bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R-AW42amemI\/AAAAAAAAFRY\/Dcb0cU7oqjo\/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\/R-AW42amemI\/AAAAAAAAFRY\/Dcb0cU7oqjo\/s200\/Marquardt,+Terry.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5179164737411644002\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A day after <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/marquardt-says-he-plans-to-stay-in-cd2.html\">I reported<\/a> that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.terrymarquardt.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Terry Marquardt<\/a> was staying in the race to replace <a href=\"http:\/\/pearce.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a> in Congress, Marquardt announced today that he\u2019s changed his mind and is dropping out.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cOur goal to elect a proven conservative with a proven record of results as our next congressman did merit our efforts,\u201d the Republican Marquardt said today in an e-mail to supporters. \u201cHowever, I underestimated the disadvantages and difficulties that proved to be insurmountable with a late start. For this reason, after careful consideration and consultation with trusted advisers, I have decided to withdraw from the race for <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>\u2019s 2nd Congressional District.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Marquardt thanked his family and supporters, saying they \u201crefused to rest easy\u201d and \u201cused personal involvement to achieve the greater good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThe challenge of a statesman is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world, and the courage, persistence and the patience to turn that dream into reality,\u201d Marquardt wrote. \u201cI still have that vision, and I will continue to work with you to turn that dream into reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">After receiving two votes, or about 1 percent, at Saturday\u2019s preprimary nominating convention, Marquardt said in an e-mail to me over the weekend that he had already gathered more than enough signatures to stay in the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThe campaign moves forward,\u201d he said in that weekend e-mail. \u201cAt this point, we have much work ahead of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after I reported that Terry Marquardt was staying in the race to replace Steve Pearce in Congress, Marquardt announced today that he\u2019s changed his mind and is dropping out. \u201cOur goal to elect a proven conservative with a proven record of results as our next congressman did merit our efforts,\u201d the Republican Marquardt [&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-3004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004","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=3004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}