{"id":3096,"date":"2008-04-15T08:48:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T14:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/judge-lets-vigil-giron-stay-in-cd1-race\/"},"modified":"2008-04-15T08:48:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T14:48:00","slug":"judge-lets-vigil-giron-stay-in-cd1-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/judge-lets-vigil-giron-stay-in-cd1-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge lets Vigil-Giron stay in CD1 race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SATAWWLiVWI\/AAAAAAAAFdg\/FYiIuTlFLn4\/s1600-h\/Vigil-Giron,+Rebecca.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SATAWWLiVWI\/AAAAAAAAFdg\/FYiIuTlFLn4\/s200\/Vigil-Giron,+Rebecca.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189484160781276514\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinheinrich.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Heinrich<\/a> must be smiling right now.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A judge in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Santa Fe<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> on Monday rejected a petition to kick <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rebeccaforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rebecca Vigil-Giron<\/a> out of the First Congressional District Democratic primary race. The lawsuit alleged she hadn\u2019t collected enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Apparently, she did collect enough signatures. Should we really have expected anything less from the former secretary of state?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That leaves Heinrich, the frontrunner, facing two female candidates \u2013 Vigil-Giron and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michellelujangrishamforcongress.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Lujan-Grisham<\/a> \u2013 and a fourth Democratic candidate, <a href=\"http:\/\/robertpidcockforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Pidcock<\/a>. It was supporters of Lujan-Grisham who challenged Vigil-Giron\u2019s signatures. They knew she needed to be the only woman in the race. That\u2019s why they went after the other woman.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The road ahead is now very difficult for any of the other candidates trying to challenge Heinrich\u2019s frontrunner status in this race. He\u2019s been in the race longer and raised more money than the other candidates. He has more endorsements. He has run a credible, active campaign with energy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It\u2019s difficult to know the exact status of the race because no polling has been released by any candidate or independent group. You would think Heinrich would have polling that reveals his frontrunner status, and the only kink in the conventional wisdom that he is the frontrunner is the fact that he hasn\u2019t released any polling to prove it. Perhaps that\u2019s coming soon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Perhaps not. But if polling doesn\u2019t show him with a strong lead, you would think another candidate would release those numbers to tear him down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Heinrich must be smiling right now. A judge in Santa Fe on Monday rejected a petition to kick Rebecca Vigil-Giron out of the First Congressional District Democratic primary race. The lawsuit alleged she hadn\u2019t collected enough valid signatures to qualify for the ballot. Apparently, she did collect enough signatures. Should we really have expected [&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-3096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096","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=3096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}