{"id":30355,"date":"2011-06-29T10:36:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T16:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=30355"},"modified":"2011-10-10T08:34:16","modified_gmt":"2011-10-10T14:34:16","slug":"congressional-run-isn%e2%80%99t-likely-cote-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/06\/congressional-run-isn%e2%80%99t-likely-cote-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressional run isn\u2019t likely, Cote says"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10873\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10873\" title=\"Cote, Nate\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Cote-Nate.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nate Cote<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Former State Rep.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.natecote.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nate Cote<\/a> told NMPolitics.net in May that he was \u201cseriously\u201d considering running for Congress next year; he now tells the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/dona_ana_news\/ci_18361998?source=rss&amp;utm_source=twitterfeed&amp;utm_medium=twitter\" target=\"_blank\">Las Cruces Sun-News<\/a> that isn\u2019t likely.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s on the fourth, rear burner of a three-burner stove at this point,\u201d the newspaper quoted Cote as saying. \u201cUnless redistricting would bring about the possibility of where a Democrat would have a chance \u2013 I might reconsider.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cote, a Democrat, told the Sun-News he plans instead to try next year to recapture the state House seat he lost in 2010.<\/p>\n<p>All indications are that U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/pearce.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a>, R-N.M., plans to seek re-election to the congressional seat next year. Sunland Park Mayor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cospnm.org\/page3.php\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Resendiz<\/a>, a Democrat, says he\u2019s also running for the seat. So is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frankmckinnon.com\/campaign2012.html\" target=\"_blank\">Frank McKinnon<\/a>, a Democrat who ran for the seat in 2008 but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/mckinnon-wont-try-to-stay-in-cd2-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">failed to win the support<\/a> from party delegates to appear on the primary ballot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former State Rep. Nate Cote told NMPolitics.net in May that he was \u201cseriously\u201d considering running for Congress next year; he now tells the Las Cruces Sun-News that isn\u2019t likely.<\/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":[156,107,167,116],"class_list":["post-30355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-roundhouse","tag-sunland-park","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30355","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=30355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}