{"id":30300,"date":"2011-06-28T10:55:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T16:55:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=30300"},"modified":"2011-06-28T10:55:31","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T16:55:31","slug":"arnold-jones-sounding-more-like-a-cd1-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/06\/arnold-jones-sounding-more-like-a-cd1-candidate\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold-Jones sounding more like a CD1 candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7586\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7586 \" title=\"Arnold-Jones3\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Arnold-Jones3-300x249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Arnold-Jones3-300x249.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Arnold-Jones3.jpg 325w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Janice Arnold-Jones (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.janice2012.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Janice Arnold-Jones<\/a> is sounding more like a candidate for the 1st Congressional District seat in Congress with language she uses in a news release sent earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>Arnold-Jones, a former state lawmaker and gubernatorial candidate who has formed a congressional exploratory committee, announced today that she has added fundraising staffers to her committee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the coming weeks, as we work with our exploratory committee team and build toward the next level, we will announce more additions to the professional team,\u201d Arnold-Jones said in the release. \u201cAt this point we are proceeding with a businesslike approach to ensure all the pieces are in place when we decide to take the next logical step.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Notice that she said \u201cwhen\u201d she takes the next step, not \u201cif.\u201d And notice that she plans to hire more staffers. It appears that Arnold-Jones plans to run but isn\u2019t yet ready to formally declare her candidacy.<\/p>\n<p>She would join Albuquerque City Councilor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.danlewis2012.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dan Lewis<\/a> in the GOP primary for the Albuquerque-area seat in Congress. Economic Development Secretary\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jon_Barela\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Barela<\/a>, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2010, is also considering joining the race.<\/p>\n<p>On the Democratic side, State Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/griegoforcongress.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Griego<\/a> is the only declared candidate. Former Lt. Gov.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Diane_Denish\" target=\"_blank\">Diane Denish<\/a>, former Albuquerque Mayor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Martin_Ch%C3%A1vez\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Ch\u00e1vez<\/a>, and Terry Brunner, U.S. Sen.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bingaman.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Bingaman\u2019s<\/a> former state director who now heads USDA Rural Development in New Mexico, are considering running for the seat, which is being vacated by Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/heinrich.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Heinrich<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Janice Arnold-Jones is sounding more like a candidate for the 1st Congressional District seat in Congress with language she uses in a news release sent earlier today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[156,107,116],"class_list":["post-30300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-roundhouse","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30300","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=30300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}