{"id":4736,"date":"2009-07-15T17:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T23:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/07\/susana-martinez-confirms-gubernatorial-bid\/"},"modified":"2009-07-15T17:13:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T23:13:00","slug":"susana-martinez-confirms-gubernatorial-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/07\/susana-martinez-confirms-gubernatorial-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Susana Martinez confirms gubernatorial bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Sl5jFdl2wZI\/AAAAAAAAL7k\/LjYM_BvG5Xo\/s1600-h\/Martinez,+Susana.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Sl5jFdl2wZI\/AAAAAAAAL7k\/LjYM_BvG5Xo\/s200\/Martinez,+Susana.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358829552111370642\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Do\u00f1a Ana County District Attorney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.da.state.nm.us\/districts\/third\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Susana Martinez<\/a>, a Republican, confirmed today in a brief interview that she\u2019s running for governor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">She didn\u2019t say much, but confirmed what <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/game-changer-da-martinez-is-running-for.html\">I reported earlier today<\/a> &#8212; that she will announce her decision to run at a news conference at <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=robertos+mexican+food,+las+cruces&amp;sll=32.308689,-106.769245&amp;sspn=0.047951,0.062828&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=32.311219,-106.769257&amp;spn=0.046136,0.062828&amp;t=h&amp;z=14&amp;iwloc=A\" target=\"_blank\">Roberto\u2019s<\/a> restaurant in Las Cruces at 5:30 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI really want to wait until Friday for the formal announcement,\u201d Martinez said in response to questions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">She wouldn\u2019t talk about how she plans to raise money beyond saying she has \u201ca plan,\u201d and she said she didn\u2019t want to comment on whether she has hired staff or reveal<span style=\"\">  <\/span>the names of people who are helping her campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Martinez did reveal that she\u2019s been seriously considering running for higher office for some time in confirming that she closed her district attorney campaign account in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI\u2019ve always had aspirations for higher politics,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It\u2019s true. Martinez has hinted to me since <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2006\/11\/da-martinez-might-be-headed-for-higher.html\">at least 2006<\/a> that she might someday run for governor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do\u00f1a Ana County District Attorney Susana Martinez, a Republican, confirmed today in a brief interview that she\u2019s running for governor. She didn\u2019t say much, but confirmed what I reported earlier today &#8212; that she will announce her decision to run at a news conference at Roberto\u2019s restaurant in Las Cruces at 5:30 p.m. Friday. \u201cI [&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-4736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736","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=4736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}