{"id":3030,"date":"2008-03-27T08:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/another-independent-candidate-jumps-into-cd3-race\/"},"modified":"2008-03-27T08:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-27T14:01:00","slug":"another-independent-candidate-jumps-into-cd3-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/another-independent-candidate-jumps-into-cd3-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Another independent candidate jumps into CD3 race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A second independent candidate is making a bid to replace <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomudall.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Udall<\/a> in the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ron Simmons, 62, told the <a href=\"http:\/\/steveterrell.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/roundhouse-round-up-coin-flips.html\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a> that he\u2019s in the race. And he has set up a campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simmons08.com\/meetthecandidate.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Web site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI know I\u2019m unknown, but I\u2019m serious,\u201d he told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Simmons, of <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Santa   Fe<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, said he was a lifelong Democrat until he left the party earlier this year because he was upset with the superdelegate system in the presidential race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He joins independent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.carolmillercongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carol Miller<\/a> and six Democrats and two Republicans in seeking to take Udall\u2019s place in the House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Independents in the Third Congressional District have to gather almost 6,000 signatures of registered voters by June 4 to appear on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Simmons states on his Web site that he supports \u201cnational budget priority for education, health care and renewable energy development; economic policies that support wage-earners and small businesses; return of all U.S. troops from Iraq and return of sovereignty to Iraq; civilian aid, non-violent mediation and support for self-determination as strategies to resolve terror; one person, one vote; elimination of all money from politics except limited contributions by individuals to election campaigns; a balanced budget; (and) enforcing or creating policies that protect our environment.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second independent candidate is making a bid to replace Tom Udall in the U.S. House of Representatives. Ron Simmons, 62, told the Santa Fe New Mexican that he\u2019s in the race. And he has set up a campaign Web site. \u201cI know I\u2019m unknown, but I\u2019m serious,\u201d he told the newspaper. Simmons, of Santa [&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-3030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030","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=3030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}