{"id":4536,"date":"2009-05-06T00:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T06:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/05\/arnold-jones-considering-running-for-guv-congress\/"},"modified":"2009-05-06T00:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-06T06:15:00","slug":"arnold-jones-considering-running-for-guv-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/05\/arnold-jones-considering-running-for-guv-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Arnold-Jones considering running for guv, Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SgErnW2-oaI\/AAAAAAAALkM\/p_x8bUKRH7U\/s1600-h\/Arnold+Jones,+Janice.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SgErnW2-oaI\/AAAAAAAALkM\/p_x8bUKRH7U\/s200\/Arnold+Jones,+Janice.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332591388934447522\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">State Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HARNO\" target=\"_blank\">Janice Arnold-Jones<\/a>, R-Albuquerque, says she\u2019s seriously considering whether to run for governor, Congress or re-election to her legislative seat next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">And she knows the clock is ticking as <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/weh-forms-gubernatorial-exploratory.html\">others are making decisions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cPeople keep telling me every day that I don\u2019t make a decision is a day that I can\u2019t get back,\u201d Arnold-Jones said in an interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">She said she is weighing her chances of winning either of the high-profile races against the opportunity she currently has to push for change in the state Legislature.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWhile I would like to run for governor, there\u2019s a real practical issue here that I\u2019m weighing,\u201d Arnold-Jones said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Asked why she wants to run for governor, she said she is \u201cinterested in making sure that the system and the entities of state government serve people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Arnold-Jones considered running for the First Congressional District seat last year but ultimately <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2007\/12\/arnold-jones-will-seek-re-election-not.html\">opted to seek re-election<\/a> to her state House seat after she failed to raise as much money for a potential congressional run as she thought she needed to be successful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Arnold-Jones\u2019 stature increased earlier this year when she led the very public charge to bring webcasting to the state Legislature. For her work on that issue, the <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/looking-back-on-lady-sunlights.html\">Santa Fe Reporter<\/a> nicknamed her \u201cLady Sunlight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So what steps is Arnold-Jones taking to figure out what she\u2019s going to do?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI am asking questions, visiting folks and engaging in strategic thought processes about the offices in which I have an interest and weighing my ability to actually get elected to that office,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Stay tuned. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones, R-Albuquerque, says she\u2019s seriously considering whether to run for governor, Congress or re-election to her legislative seat next year. And she knows the clock is ticking as others are making decisions. \u201cPeople keep telling me every day that I don\u2019t make a decision is a day that I can\u2019t get back,\u201d [&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-4536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536","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=4536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}