{"id":39157,"date":"2012-04-20T15:16:33","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T21:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=39157"},"modified":"2012-04-20T15:16:38","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T21:16:38","slug":"sunlands-mayor-elect-is-a-democrat-not-an-independent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/04\/sunlands-mayor-elect-is-a-democrat-not-an-independent\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunland\u2019s mayor-elect is a Democrat, not an independent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_39046\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-39046 \" title=\"Perea, Javier\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Perea-Javier-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"Javier Perea (Screen shot from KFOX-TV\u2019s website)\" width=\"270\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Perea-Javier-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Perea-Javier-336x226.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/04\/Perea-Javier.jpg 406w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 270px) 100vw, 270px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Javier Perea (Screen shot from KFOX-TV\u2019s website)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Sunland Park Mayor-elect Javier Perea was quoted in a recent news article as saying he claimed no party affiliation and was an \u201cindependent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the exact wording of the relevant paragraph in an article NMPolitics.net <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/04\/meet-sunland-parks-new-mayor-elect\/\" target=\"_blank\">published earlier today<\/a> that was authored by <a href=\"http:\/\/frontera.nmsu.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Frontera NorteSur\u2019s<\/a> Kent Paterson:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe son of a woman with a work history in the Sunland Park Police Department, Perea told FNS he claimed no political party affiliation and was an \u2018independent.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But a check of the county voter rolls reveals that Perea is a Democrat \u2013 and has been since he registered to vote in January 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunland Park Mayor-elect Javier Perea was quoted in a recent news article as saying he claimed no party affiliation and was an \u201cindependent.\u201d But he&#8217;s actually a registered Democrat.<\/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":[167],"class_list":["post-39157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-sunland-park"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39157","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=39157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}