{"id":4603,"date":"2009-05-27T10:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T16:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/05\/gops-barela-may-challenge-heinrich-next-year\/"},"modified":"2009-05-27T10:16:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T16:16:00","slug":"gops-barela-may-challenge-heinrich-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/05\/gops-barela-may-challenge-heinrich-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP&#8217;s Barela may challenge Heinrich next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A Republican Party activist is preparing to form an exploratory committee as he considers challenging U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/heinrich.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Heinrich<\/a>, D-N.M., for the 1st Congressional District seat next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The potential challenger is Jon Barela, a former vice chairman of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopnm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Republican Party of New Mexico<\/a> and past president of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahcnm.org\/default.asp?CustComKey=260732&amp;CategoryKey=260733\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce<\/a>. A fundraiser will be held Saturday to help raise money for the exploratory committee, according to an e-mail invitation sent on Tuesday by the host of the event, GOP activist Kevin Reid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the e-mail to his \u201cclose friends,\u201d Reid wrote that he\u2019s supporting Barela because of his conservative and commonsense values. Reid is asking people to commit $2,300 for the primary to allow Barela to form the exploratory committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican Party activist is preparing to form an exploratory committee as he considers challenging U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., for the 1st Congressional District seat next year. The potential challenger is Jon Barela, a former vice chairman of the Republican Party of New Mexico and past president of the Albuquerque Hispano Chamber of Commerce. [&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-4603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603","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=4603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}