{"id":37406,"date":"2012-02-29T18:34:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-01T01:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=37406"},"modified":"2012-03-01T06:55:40","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T13:55:40","slug":"third-sunland-park-mayoral-candidate-speaks-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/02\/third-sunland-park-mayoral-candidate-speaks-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Sunland Park mayoral hopeful emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37407\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37407\" title=\"Hernandez, Jose Luis\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Hernandez-Jose-Luis.jpg\" alt=\"A website screen shot from KFOX-TV\u2019s interview with Jose Luis Hernandez.\" width=\"270\" height=\"185\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">A website screen shot from KFOX-TV\u2019s interview with Jose Luis Hernandez.<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>Though he shares the same last name as Gerardo Hernandez, another mayoral candidate, Jose Luis Hernandez insisted he didn\u2019t get his name on the ballot to help the third mayoral candidate, Daniel Salinas, by confusing voters.<\/h4>\n<p>Jose Luis Hernandez is running for mayor in the March 6 Sunland Park municipal election, but he hasn\u2019t been very visible \u2013 until now.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez emerged today to give <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfoxtv.com\/news\/news\/third-sunland-park-mayoral-candidate-speaks-out\/nK8Q8\/\" target=\"_blank\">an interview<\/a> to El Paso\u2019s KFOX-14.<\/p>\n<p>Though he shares the same last name as Gerardo Hernandez, another mayoral candidate, Jose Luis Hernandez insisted he didn\u2019t get his name on the ballot to help the third mayoral candidate, Daniel Salinas, by confusing voters.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But the interview is quite interesting. Jose Luis Hernandez is told by the reporter conducting the interview that his mother didn\u2019t know he was running until the media alerted her. The reporter also pointed out that his mother had a Salinas sign at her home.<\/p>\n<p>He said he hadn\u2019t told his parents about his candidacy because of his father\u2019s illness, but said his siblings knew.<\/p>\n<p>Jose Luis Hernandez said he hasn\u2019t been running an active campaign \u201cfor lack of funds,\u201d but said now is the time for him to speak up, with Salinas facing criminal charges and Gerardo Hernandez having been shown on El Paso television with a topless dancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s why I\u2019m making the announcement public,\u201d Jose Luis Hernandez said.<\/p>\n<p>Salinas is currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/02\/sunland-park-officials-deny-guilt-remain-jailed\/\" target=\"_blank\">jailed on extortion charges<\/a> stemming from allegations that he used a lap-dance video to try to force Gerardo Hernandez from the race.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Jose Luis Hernandez\u2019s full interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfoxtv.com\/videos\/news\/entire-interview-third-sunland-park-mayoral\/vGFts\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and KFOX-TV\u2019s report on the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kfoxtv.com\/news\/news\/third-sunland-park-mayoral-candidate-speaks-out\/nK8Q8\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jose Luis Hernandez is running for mayor in the scandal-plagued March 6 Sunland Park municipal election, but he hasn\u2019t been very visible \u2013 until now.<\/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":[142,114,167],"class_list":["post-37406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-crime","tag-public-corruption","tag-sunland-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37406","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=37406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37406\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}