{"id":37702,"date":"2012-03-06T18:53:26","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T01:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=37702"},"modified":"2012-03-08T08:48:23","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T15:48:23","slug":"join-liveblog-of-sunland-park-other-muni-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/03\/join-liveblog-of-sunland-park-other-muni-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Salinas wins in Sunland Park; challenge coming"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_37271\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37271 \" title=\"Salinas, Daniel\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Salinas-Daniel1.jpg\" alt=\"Sunland Park Mayor-elect Daniel Salinas\" width=\"270\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sunland Park Mayor-elect Daniel Salinas<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>Salinas opponent says he\u2019ll challenge election results.<\/h4>\n<p>Despite facing felony extortion charges, Daniel Salinas won Sunland Park\u2019s mayoral race this evening, but opponent Gerardo Hernandez says he\u2019ll challenge the results.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew this was going to be a tough race, combating\u00a0voter fraud\u00a0and extortion. It\u2019s hard to believe that someone who has attempted to sway the vote by intimidation and supported by illegal voter fraud is elected,\u201d Hernandez said. \u201cWhere the secretary of state and the district attorney were involved I was ahead 3 to 1. We will challenge since Salinas cannot fulfill the duties of mayor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read about that and more from the state\u2019s municipal elections in NMPolitics.net\u2019s liveblog archive by clicking on the box:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.coveritlive.com\/index2.php\/option=com_altcaster\/task=viewaltcast\/altcast_code=0cc58272c7\/height=600\/width=600\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"600px\" height=\"600px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Like our liveblogging? Support NMPolitics.net doing more of it by making a donation today! <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/contribute\" target=\"_blank\">nmpolitics.net\/contribute<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED: Despite facing felony extortion charges, Daniel Salinas won Sunland Park\u2019s mayoral race this evening. Read about that and more from the state\u2019s municipal elections in NMPolitics.net\u2019s liveblog archive by clicking on the headline.<\/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":[156,235,276,226,167],"class_list":["post-37702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-liveblogging","tag-municipal-elections","tag-presidential-race","tag-sunland-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37702","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=37702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}