{"id":4461,"date":"2009-04-14T09:20:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-14T15:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/04\/obama-organization-kicks-off-nm-work-in-las-cruces\/"},"modified":"2009-04-14T09:20:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-14T15:20:00","slug":"obama-organization-kicks-off-nm-work-in-las-cruces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/04\/obama-organization-kicks-off-nm-work-in-las-cruces\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama organization kicks off NM work in Las Cruces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SeSqbvcpthI\/AAAAAAAALYg\/DcDYnGC4TrM\/s1600-h\/Obama,+Barack.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SeSqbvcpthI\/AAAAAAAALYg\/DcDYnGC4TrM\/s200\/Obama,+Barack.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5324568053028599314\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> new political action committee <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Organizing for America<\/a> has hired a director to work in New Mexico, and the organization is kicking off its activity in the state with the first of several listening-tour events today in Las Cruces.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The event will be held at 7 p.m. at the headquarters of the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=1400+S.+Solano+Drive,+las+cruces,+nm&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=46.27475,58.710937&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=A\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic Party of Do\u00f1a Ana County<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The group, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Organizing_for_America\" target=\"_blank\">Wikipedia<\/a>, is run by the <a href=\"http:\/\/democrats.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic National Committee<\/a> and \u201cseeks to mobilize Obama supporters to elect other political candidates and support President Obama\u2019s legislative agenda.\u201d The group uses the contact information of the 13 million Americans who signed up to receive information from Obama in 2008 during the presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cAt Listening Tour meetings, you\u2019ll get a chance to meet new state staff members, hear about some lessons learned during the general election, and offer your thoughts on how we can organize New Mexico going forward,\u201d Luis Hernandez, the group\u2019s state director, wrote in an e-mail to that list of people. \u201cYour ideas will be used to write a New Mexico-specific plan for Organizing for America in 2009 and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He wrote that the campaign \u201cbrought an unprecedented number of new voices into the process &#8212; we need to make sure those voices remain at the center of the debate as the President and Congress work on providing solutions for our economy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Barack Obama\u2019s new political action committee Organizing for America has hired a director to work in New Mexico, and the organization is kicking off its activity in the state with the first of several listening-tour events today in Las Cruces. The event will be held at 7 p.m. at the headquarters of the Democratic [&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-4461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461","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=4461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}