{"id":32309,"date":"2011-09-30T12:00:08","date_gmt":"2011-09-30T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=32309"},"modified":"2011-10-08T21:44:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T03:44:59","slug":"dailey-defends-decision-to-stay-in-cruces-council-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/09\/dailey-defends-decision-to-stay-in-cruces-council-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Dailey defends decision to stay in Cruces council race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31374\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31374\" title=\"Dailey, Ryan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Dailey-Ryan.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Dailey<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ryan Dailey says he \u201cwill not back down\u201d from his bid to become the District 4 city councilor in Las Cruces despite being arrested recently for drunken driving.<\/p>\n<p>Dailey wrote in an e-mail to NMPolitics.net that the charges are misdemeanors and said he\u2019s innocent until proven guilty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I\u2019m guilty I\u2019ll pay my dues, but I will be an am innocent until proven guilty,\u201d he wrote in the e-mail.<\/p>\n<p>Dailey was\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/09\/cruces-council-candidate-arrested-for-dwi\/\" target=\"_blank\">arrested for DWI<\/a>\u00a0earlier this month in Las Cruces, but has pleaded not guilty to the charges. He\u2019s also facing\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/09\/cruces-council-candidate-also-wanted-for-dwi-in-virginia\/\" target=\"_blank\">a separate DWI case<\/a>\u00a0in Virginia stemming from an incident in 2009.<\/p>\n<p>In the Las Cruces case he\u2019s charged with aggravated drunken driving, improper lane usage and lack of due care. In Virginia, he faces one count of driving under the influence and one count for carrying a 10-inch knife hidden in his vehicle. All charges are misdemeanors.<\/p>\n<p>Dailey faces incumbent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/09\/councilor-small-announces-re-election-bid\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nathan Small<\/a> and another challenger, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/08\/diaz-enters-cruces-city-council-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Henry Diaz<\/a>, in the Nov. 8 election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ryan Dailey says he \u201cwill not back down\u201d from his bid to become the District 4 city councilor in Las Cruces despite being arrested recently for drunken driving.<\/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":[142,145,214],"class_list":["post-32309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crime","tag-las-cruces","tag-las-cruces-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32309","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=32309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}