{"id":32234,"date":"2011-09-28T12:23:26","date_gmt":"2011-09-28T18:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=32234"},"modified":"2011-10-08T21:44:41","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T03:44:41","slug":"a-couple-of-surprises-on-cruces-candidate-filing-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/09\/a-couple-of-surprises-on-cruces-candidate-filing-day\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple of surprises on Cruces candidate filing day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6734\" title=\"Las Cruces logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Las-Cruces-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"116\" height=\"107\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were a couple of surprises on Tuesday when Las Crucens filed their declarations of candidacy for various seats up for grabs in the Nov. 8 election.<\/p>\n<p>Clinton R. Lanier, who had <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/07\/lanier-announces-candidacy-for-cruces-city-council\/\" target=\"_blank\">announced his candidacy<\/a> for the District 2 seat being vacated by Dolores Connor, didn\u2019t file and won\u2019t appear on the ballot. And in District 4, Ryan Matthew Dailey, who was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/09\/cruces-council-candidate-arrested-for-dwi\/\" target=\"_blank\">arrested for DWI<\/a> earlier this month in Las Cruces and also had an outstanding warrant for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/09\/cruces-council-candidate-also-wanted-for-dwi-in-virginia\/\" target=\"_blank\">a separate DWI charge<\/a> in Virginia, did file to run.<\/p>\n<p>Dailey had announced his candidacy before the arrest and had not said since his arrest whether he would stay in the race.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the full list of candidates who filed to run. Their candidacies must still be certified by the city clerk, who will do so on Oct. 4.<\/p>\n<h3>Mayor<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Dolores Connor<\/li>\n<li>Michael E. Fleming<\/li>\n<li>Michael R. Huerta<\/li>\n<li>Ken Miyagishima, incumbent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Council District 1<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Natalie R. Chadborn<\/li>\n<li>Miguel G. Silva, incumbent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Council District 2<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Fred Barela Espinosa<\/li>\n<li>Charles B. Scholz<\/li>\n<li>Gregory Z. Smith<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Council District 4<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ryan M. Dailey<\/li>\n<li>Aaron Henry Diaz<\/li>\n<li>Nathan P. Small, incumbent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Presiding municipal judge<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Frank Norman Chavez<\/li>\n<li>Melissa Miller-Byrnes, incumbent<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can find contact information for each candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/Documents\/2011DeclaredLCCandidates.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and important dates in the election process <a href=\"http:\/\/las-cruces.org\/en\/Departments\/Legal\/Services\/City%20Clerk\/Municipal%20Elections.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>Update, 12:35 p.m.<\/h3>\n<p>Lanier explained his decision to drop out of the race <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/crlanier\/posts\/2448618496605\" target=\"_blank\">on Facebook<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cTomorrow the Las Cruces Sun News will undoubtedly publish the list of those running in the upcoming election in November. My name won\u2019t be on that list.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I decided to enter the race almost two months ago, I did so because I believed the city needed conservative, pro-businesses leaders on the Council. I still feel that way. But about three weeks ago a native Las Crucen, retired from the Air Force, named Fred Espinosa entered the race for District 2. Like me Fred is a conservative and believes in working to try to bring industry and jobs to Las Cruces, and we share many of the same ideals and values.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt makes no sense that two conservatives would run in this election for the same seat, and I quickly realized that it would only serve to dilute the number of conservative votes between us and ensure neither of us won. Thus, I decided to end my campaign, and support Fred. Thank you to those of you who expressed your support for me, I sincerely appreciate it.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED: There were a couple of surprises on Tuesday when Las Crucens filed their declarations of candidacy for various seats up for grabs in the Nov. 8 election.<\/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-32234","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\/32234","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=32234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}