{"id":3029,"date":"2008-03-26T17:24:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/nader-says-n-m-will-be-first-state-with-him-on-ballot\/"},"modified":"2008-03-26T17:24:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-26T23:24:00","slug":"nader-says-n-m-will-be-first-state-with-him-on-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/nader-says-n-m-will-be-first-state-with-him-on-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Nader says N.M. will be first state with him on ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R-rbV4V6L_I\/AAAAAAAAFVA\/QTne2g3LpMk\/s1600-h\/Nader,+Ralph.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R-rbV4V6L_I\/AAAAAAAAFVA\/QTne2g3LpMk\/s200\/Nader,+Ralph.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182195490191192050\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Independent presidential candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.votenader.org\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Ralph Nader<\/a> expects <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> to be the first state where he qualifies for the ballot.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Nader said this week in an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.770kkob.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">770 KKOB\u2019s<\/a> political reporter Peter St. Cyr that he expects that to happen, and the campaign is also focused on making <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:state st=\"on\">Arizona<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> the second state where it qualifies for the ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Nader raised more than $12,000 in a couple of days earlier this month to send campaign workers to <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New   Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> to gather signatures and get him on the ballot. Nader needs some 7,000 signatures from registered voters in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:state st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> to appear on the ballot in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Nader has made <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New   Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> an early and primary focus of his campaign. Expect his candidacy to be part of the debate here this year. <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> continues to be one of the most interesting states for politics in 2008.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Nader also spoke with KKOB about <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>\u2019s strengths and challenges, and its governor. He talked about the presidential campaign and the Democratic and Republican candidates. And he shared his campaign platform.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You can listen to the full interview by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/download-v5.streamload.com\/93d7c1a9-28db-4e89-a431-bb3f4cd5701e\/peter_stcyr\/Hosted\/NADAR.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader expects New Mexico to be the first state where he qualifies for the ballot. Nader said this week in an interview with 770 KKOB\u2019s political reporter Peter St. Cyr that he expects that to happen, and the campaign is also focused on making Arizona the second state where it qualifies [&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-3029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029","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=3029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}