{"id":39991,"date":"2012-05-21T06:40:22","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T12:40:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=39991"},"modified":"2012-05-21T07:27:01","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T13:27:01","slug":"more-about-sullivan-castellano-and-griego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/05\/more-about-sullivan-castellano-and-griego\/","title":{"rendered":"More about Sullivan, Castellano and Griego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s more about the State Senate District 39 Democratic primary race and the candidates,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jacksullivanforsenate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Sullivan<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.votecastellano.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Castellano<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.friendsofsenatorphilgriego.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Griego<\/a>:<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To search campaign finance reports, click <a href=\"https:\/\/cfis.state.nm.us\/media\/ReportCandidates.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>District 39 includes portions of Torrance, Valencia, Santa Fe, Bernalillo, San Miguel and Lincoln counties. For a map, click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/Sessions\/11Redistricting\/188347\/SD_188347_1_Court_Map_letter_District_39.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Jack Sullivan<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Top issues:<\/span> creating quality jobs, improving education, ensuring affordable health care, and government ethics<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Government experience:<\/span> eight years as Santa Fe County commissioner<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Career:<\/span> owner and president of Sullivan Design Group, Inc., Consulting Engineers Santa Fe<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ideas:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support reducing pension of legislators found guilty of violating law<\/li>\n<li>Televise legislator committee meetings<\/li>\n<li>Explore incentives for agriculture to use water efficiently, rather than \u201cuse it or lose it\u201d policy<\/li>\n<li>Protect Medicare and Medicaid<\/li>\n<li>Reduce class size<\/li>\n<li>Pass a constitutional amendment to increase the amount of the Land Grant Permanent Fund that would go toward education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Nicole Castellano<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Top issues:<\/span> education, veterans, seniors and people with disabilities<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Government experience:<\/span> none<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Career:<\/span> Currently raising her sons, 4 and 6, and volunteering. Previously national retail manager for Bill Blass \u2013 Rose Cloak and general manager for Borders Books, Music and Cafe<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ideas:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support all farmer protection bills<\/li>\n<li>Support infrastructure projects, including telecom, wind and solar, to create local jobs, improve roads and increase standard of living for rural New Mexicans<\/li>\n<li>Increase funding and protect veteran and senior programs and services<\/li>\n<li>Create a one-stop shop for people who want to open a business<\/li>\n<li>Protect Medicare and Medicaid<\/li>\n<li>Hold New Mexico school districts accountable for reducing administrative costs while increasing teacher salaries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Phil Griego (Didn\u2019t return messages for comment)<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Top issues:<\/span>\u00a0job creation, economic development, health care, and water and agricultural issues, according to his campaign website<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Government experience:<\/span> District 39 senator since 1997<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Career:<\/span> realtor\/consultant, according to the New Mexico Legislature\u2019s website<\/p>\n<p>Return to the main article about the State Senate District 39 race by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/05\/complaint-against-griego-looms-large-in-state-senate-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s more about the State Senate District 39 Democratic primary race and the candidates, Phil Griego, Jack Sullivan and Nicole Castellano.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2777,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[156,107],"class_list":["post-39991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2012-election","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39991","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\/2777"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}