{"id":32221,"date":"2011-09-28T10:39:54","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T16:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=32221"},"modified":"2011-10-08T21:44:32","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T03:44:32","slug":"fleming-announces-candidacy-for-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/09\/fleming-announces-candidacy-for-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Fleming announces candidacy for mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newspaper carrier Michael Fleming has announced his candidacy for Las Cruces mayor.<\/p>\n<p>The deliverer of the Las Cruces Sun-News wrote in an e-mail that he\u2019s running on a conservative platform and is seeking \u201cgood stewardship\u201d of taxpayers\u2019 money and a realization \u201cthat the citizens of Las Cruces are the employers.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fleming is 51 and has lived in Las Cruces since 1992. He\u2019s been a newspaper carrier for more than 19 years and said being a private contractor has taught him that \u201cfinancial discipline is an absolute must.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was born and raised in Alamogordo and graduated from the N.M. School for the Visually Handicapped as valedictorian in 1979. He earned bachelor\u2019s degrees in English and Spanish from Western New Mexico University in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>Fleming is one of three challengers to incumbent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/08\/miyagishima-formally-announces-re-election-bid\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Miyagishima<\/a> in the Nov. 8 mayoral race. The others are District 2 Councilor\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/01\/connor-enters-las-cruces-mayoral-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dolores Connor<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/06\/huerta-enters-las-cruces-mayoral-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Ray Huerta<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newspaper carrier Michael Fleming has announced his candidacy for Las Cruces mayor.<\/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":[145,214],"class_list":["post-32221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-las-cruces","tag-las-cruces-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32221","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=32221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}