{"id":4740,"date":"2009-07-16T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/07\/kokesh-will-run-as-a-republican-in-cd3\/"},"modified":"2009-07-16T13:46:00","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T19:46:00","slug":"kokesh-will-run-as-a-republican-in-cd3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/07\/kokesh-will-run-as-a-republican-in-cd3\/","title":{"rendered":"Kokesh will run as a Republican in CD3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Sl-EZERMDbI\/AAAAAAAAL8U\/-2_ALf0qkYo\/s1600-h\/Kokesh,+Adam.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Sl-EZERMDbI\/AAAAAAAAL8U\/-2_ALf0qkYo\/s200\/Kokesh,+Adam.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5359147647771610546\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Here\u2019s something I should have noticed in writing last night about <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/heinrich-teague-top-300k-in-2nd-quarter.html\">campaign finance reports<\/a>: When Iraq war veteran turned antiwar activist <a href=\"http:\/\/kokeshforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adam Kokesh<\/a> filed his <a href=\"http:\/\/query.nictusa.com\/cgi-bin\/fecimg\/?H0NM03037\" target=\"_blank\">statement of candidacy<\/a> with the Federal Election Commission on July 6, he stated that he will run as a Republican.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kokesh, who is challenging U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/lujan.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n<\/a>, D-N.M., next year, had not previously announced whether he would run as a member of any political party or as an independent. Many of his beliefs are fairly libertarian and he has been active in Ron Paul\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.campaignforliberty.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Campaign for Liberty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kokesh announced that he plans to run as a Republican today in a news release. The release states that Kokesh\u2019s platform is \u201cpost-partisan,\u201d so he has \u201cbeen approached my many parties.\u201d Kokesh, the release states, \u201ccomes from a long line of Republicans and has been registered as a Republican since he was old enough to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cOften a critic of the <a href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?et=1102641377066&amp;s=3086&amp;e=001WA1gaw2v8fP96SqbGyKZIyNKwKRfY29HpXWqYm0TQmO68FdA1FcewFlzbI3PqTwb8Ld6Y0-GOvkOTCv57mILlWrL8cJoZO8FcXqJ_GQ-9b56atZIuoQcFm0M0US-8utXTuE01QJ5EBvc7cyfbUWBQaAx0KdTAzAs4HPBFPI7M-u2gfPETn2-EFty74B1UHoqu0CArWDCaaorWAQU5C8zYw==\" target=\"_blank\">party leadership<\/a>, he believes the actual platform &#8212; limited government and lower taxes &#8212; is most aligned with his belief system, even though the Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/rs6.net\/tn.jsp?et=1102641377066&amp;s=3086&amp;e=001WA1gaw2v8fPGrMwF9axvV-tQJqHqsLCy6furqFnQ6V0brI9_WpxG2sjQvf5ZFq-DaxKVeAmSZ7ylGi3UxhLqx_LypOmQXSXO8ycEvVXwKbX6SgLfnQeNSWxmHer17w4K2nRrJLmr0dJHEaERNAPzX0ZfThcpCudQKIpbAdmhxZEoji3v8Rs3vxvAEXhgAJBQiPVzUmVlPzY=\" target=\"_blank\">office holders<\/a> have strayed far away from the party platform,\u201d the release states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s something I should have noticed in writing last night about campaign finance reports: When Iraq war veteran turned antiwar activist Adam Kokesh filed his statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission on July 6, he stated that he will run as a Republican. Kokesh, who is challenging U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n, D-N.M., [&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-4740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740","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=4740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}