{"id":41387,"date":"2012-07-10T16:52:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T22:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=41387"},"modified":"2012-07-11T07:37:38","modified_gmt":"2012-07-11T13:37:38","slug":"ag-king-to-run-for-governor-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/07\/ag-king-to-run-for-governor-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"AG King to run for governor in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_34823\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-34823 \" title=\"king-gary-9\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/king-gary-9.jpeg\" alt=\"Attorney General Gary King\" width=\"270\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney General Gary King (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Attorney General <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmag.gov\/the_office\/executive-office\/biography-of-gary-king\" target=\"_blank\">Gary King<\/a> confirmed today that he plans to run for governor in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2012\/07\/10\/politics\/attorney-general-king-plans-race-for-gov.html\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cKing, a two-term attorney general and son of three-term New Mexico Gov. Bruce King, said today he plans to run for governor in 2014. He announced plans for the election bid on the Albuquerque radio station KANW.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As of publication of this article, KANW 89.1-FM doesn\u2019t have its report about King <a href=\"http:\/\/kanw.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">on its website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>King, a Democrat, could face Republican Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\" target=\"_blank\">Susana Martinez<\/a> if she seeks re-election. But he\u2019ll first have to wade through what could be a crowded Democratic primary. And following what many call <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/01\/abq-journal-calls-ag%e2%80%99s-record-%e2%80%98woefully-inadequate%e2%80%99\/\" target=\"_blank\">a lackluster tenure<\/a> as AG, there are many Democrats who don\u2019t want King to be the party\u2019s nominee.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, the son of a former governor carries clout and, as a statewide elected official, King has to be taken seriously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Attorney General Gary King confirmed today that he plans to run for governor in 2014.<\/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":[197,224,107],"class_list":["post-41387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2014-election","tag-gary-king","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41387","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=41387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}