{"id":4660,"date":"2009-06-17T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-17T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/barela-to-announce-decision-on-cd1-race-thursday\/"},"modified":"2009-06-17T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-17T19:42:00","slug":"barela-to-announce-decision-on-cd1-race-thursday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/barela-to-announce-decision-on-cd1-race-thursday\/","title":{"rendered":"Barela to announce decision on CD1 race Thursday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Republican Jon Barela will announce Thursday whether he will challenge U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/heinrich.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Heinrich<\/a>, D-N.M., in 2010.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That\u2019s according to a news release sent today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">All signs point to Barela entering the race. He held <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/gops-barela-may-challenge-heinrich-next.html\">a fundraiser<\/a> in May as he weighed getting into the race. He <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nictusa.com\/cgi-bin\/can_detail\/H0NM01163\/\" target=\"_blank\">filed notice<\/a> with the Federal Election Commission of his potential candidacy shortly thereafter. Today\u2019s news release ends with the notice, \u201cPaid for by Jon Barela for Congress.  Ben Spencer, Treasurer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">And, of course, the obvious: Why would you hold a news conference to announce that you\u2019re not running for office?<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Barela\u2019s news conference will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. at DRB Electric, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=DRB+Electric,+3601+2nd+Street+SW,+Albuquerque,+nm&amp;sll=37.509726,-95.712891&amp;sspn=46.445737,58.886719&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;t=h&amp;z=16\" target=\"_blank\">3601 2nd Street SW<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Barela, an Albuquerque businessman, is a former vice chairman of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopnm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Republican Party of New Mexico<\/a>, 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> and former member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/ww2.aps.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Public Schools<\/a> Board of Education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Jon Barela will announce Thursday whether he will challenge U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., in 2010. That\u2019s according to a news release sent today. All signs point to Barela entering the race. He held a fundraiser in May as he weighed getting into the race. He filed notice with the Federal Election Commission of [&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-4660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660","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=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}