{"id":4159,"date":"2009-01-21T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T23:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/01\/kilmer-sounds-confident-about-2010-chances\/"},"modified":"2009-01-21T17:19:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T23:19:00","slug":"kilmer-sounds-confident-about-2010-chances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/01\/kilmer-sounds-confident-about-2010-chances\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilmer sounds confident about 2010 chances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SXiOh0vZBRI\/AAAAAAAAKmM\/jPVUBZuK6H0\/s1600-h\/Kilmer.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SXiOh0vZBRI\/AAAAAAAAKmM\/jPVUBZuK6H0\/s1600\/Kilmer.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5294138073718261010\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.valekilmer.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Val Kilmer<\/a> is sounding quite confident in his most recent comments about his potential run for governor of New Mexico, like he believes the job is his &#8212; if he decides he wants it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThere are a lot of actors who become politicians,\u201d Kilmer said on Tuesday, citing Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwarzenegger as examples. \u201cAnd they always win, so I guess we&#8217;ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kilmer was speaking to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/celebrity\/articles\/2009\/01\/21\/a_star_spangled_day\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Globe<\/a> at an inauguration party in Washington.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The actor, who lives on a ranch near Pecos, has been openly considering running for governor in 2010. He\u2019s been registered but never voted in New Mexico, and only recently became a Democrat, but his entry into the 2010 primary would shift the dynamic that currently favors Lt. Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ltgovernor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Diane Denish<\/a>. On the Republican side, former U.S. Reps. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heather_Wilson\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Pearce\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a> are talked about as possible candidates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kilmer also talked about his potential gubernatorial campaign on Tuesday with the D.C. publication <a href=\"http:\/\/mobile.thehill.com\/leading-the-news\/actor-val-kilmer-mulls-n.m.-gubernatorial-run-2009-01-20.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Hill<\/a>, saying his answer was a \u201cstrong maybe\u201d when asked if he\u2019s running. He said \u201cthey\u201d have asked him to run for governor, but didn\u2019t specify who he was talking about.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Val Kilmer is sounding quite confident in his most recent comments about his potential run for governor of New Mexico, like he believes the job is his &#8212; if he decides he wants it. \u201cThere are a lot of actors who become politicians,\u201d Kilmer said on Tuesday, citing Ronald Reagan, Clint Eastwood and Arnold Schwarzenegger [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159","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=4159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}