{"id":3090,"date":"2008-04-14T07:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T13:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/hearing-on-vigil-girons-signatures-is-today\/"},"modified":"2008-04-14T07:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T13:40:00","slug":"hearing-on-vigil-girons-signatures-is-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/hearing-on-vigil-girons-signatures-is-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing on Vigil-Giron&#8217;s signatures is today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SANfI2LiVRI\/AAAAAAAAFc4\/Ecs3uHke6pU\/s1600-h\/Vigil-Giron,+Rebecca.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SANfI2LiVRI\/AAAAAAAAFc4\/Ecs3uHke6pU\/s200\/Vigil-Giron,+Rebecca.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189095801248437522\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A challenge to the petition signatures collected by would-be First Congressional District Democratic candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccaforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Vigil-Giron<\/a> may be decided in court today.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A hearing on the matter is scheduled for 2 p.m. in the court of District Judge Daniel Sanchez in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Santa   Fe<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI hope to be on the ballot,\u201d Vigil-Giron said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Vigil-Giron has filed a motion to dismiss the challenge, which was filed earlier this month by three supporters of another Democratic First Congressional District candidate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michellelujangrishamforcongress.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Lujan-Grisham<\/a>. It alleges that Vigil-Giron submitted more than 600 signatures that weren\u2019t valid, which would leave her 100 short of the 1,214 required to qualify for the ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Vigil-Giron, a former secretary of state, is the only federal Democratic or Republican candidate from <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> whose candidacy is being challenged in court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A challenge to the petition signatures collected by would-be First Congressional District Democratic candidate Rebecca Vigil-Giron may be decided in court today. A hearing on the matter is scheduled for 2 p.m. in the court of District Judge Daniel Sanchez in Santa Fe. \u201cI hope to be on the ballot,\u201d Vigil-Giron said. Vigil-Giron has filed [&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-3090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090","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=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}