{"id":4535,"date":"2009-05-05T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T02:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/05\/weh-forms-gubernatorial-exploratory-committee\/"},"modified":"2009-05-05T20:48:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T02:48:00","slug":"weh-forms-gubernatorial-exploratory-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/05\/weh-forms-gubernatorial-exploratory-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Weh forms gubernatorial ‘exploratory committee’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Allen Weh<\/a> can begin raising money to run for governor after he announced today that he\u2019s forming what he\u2019s calling an \u201cexploratory committee\u201d as he considers jumping into the 2010 race.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need to clean up the corruption in Santa Fe. We need to save jobs and make jobs, and move New Mexico in a better direction,\u201d Weh said in a news release sent shortly after he held a news conference in Albuquerque to announce the formation of the committee.<\/p>\n

Weh, the former chairman of the Republican Party of New Mexico<\/a>, said in the release that he is taking a \u201clong, hard look at this race.\u201d He was joined at the news conference by members of his family, former U.S. Rep. and Interior Secretary Manuel Lujan Jr., former Albuquerque City Council President Vickie Perea and several leaders in the business community. <\/p>\n

Today\u2019s announcement wasn\u2019t a surprise. Weh said in February<\/a> that he planned to form an exploratory committee soon after the legislative session ended in March.<\/p>\n

As the GOP chairman, Weh developed a reputation for being able to raise lots of cash for Republicans. Lujan said in Weh\u2019s news release that the potential gubernatorial candidate \u201chas the right qualifications to be governor. He is a straightforward businessman and a proven leader.\u201d<\/p>\n

Not surprisingly, Brian Col\u00f3n, chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico<\/a>, had a different take.<\/p>\n

\u201cWeh\u2019s tenure as head of the Republican Party consisted of intense infighting, contested and nasty primaries and catastrophic loses,\u201d Col\u00f3n said. \u201cWhy should New Mexicans think he\u2019ll do any better in the Roundhouse? Once again it appears we will see the circular firing squad that is the Republican Party of New Mexico at work during the 2010 primary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weh is the chief executive officer of CSI Aviation Services and a retired U.S. Marine Corps colonel. He holds bachelors and masters degrees from the University of New Mexico. He\u2019s married and has three children and four grandchildren.<\/p>\n

The other Republican who has already jumped into the gubernatorial race is Greg Zanetti<\/a>, an Albuquerque financial adviser and New Mexico National Guard brigadier general. On the Democratic side, the only announced 2010 candidate for governor is Lt. Gov. Diane Denish<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Allen Weh can begin raising money to run for governor after he announced today that he\u2019s forming what he\u2019s calling an \u201cexploratory committee\u201d as he considers jumping into the 2010 race. \u201cWe need to clean up the corruption in Santa Fe. We need to save jobs and make jobs, and move New Mexico in a […]<\/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-4535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535","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=4535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}