{"id":479,"date":"2006-08-18T13:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-18T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/republican-magistrate-hopeful-faces-uphill-climb\/"},"modified":"2006-08-18T13:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-18T19:23:00","slug":"republican-magistrate-hopeful-faces-uphill-climb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/republican-magistrate-hopeful-faces-uphill-climb\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican magistrate hopeful faces uphill climb"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Republican candidate for the magistrate judge Division II seat in Do\u00f1a<\/st1:PlaceName> Ana<\/st1:PlaceName> County<\/st1:PlaceName><\/st1:place> has a tough road ahead.<\/p>\n

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The first hit to his campaign came in April, when the U.S. Office of Special Counsel began looking into whether Foldy and Sheriff Todd Garrison were in violation of the Hatch Act, which prevents some public employees whose jobs involve federal money from running for office while holding those jobs.<\/p>\n

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Foldy is a corporal in the sheriff\u2019s department. He\u2019s also the only Republican running against any of the county\u2019s five incumbent Democratic judges this year.<\/p>\n

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When the feds began looking into the situation, Foldy stopped volunteering for overtime jobs such as DWI enforcement that are funded by federal grants.<\/p>\n

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The feds ruled within a couple of weeks that Garrison was not in violation, but left Foldy in limbo for more than two months.<\/p>\n

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The second hit came at the beginning of June, when Gov. Bill Richardson appointed Foldy\u2019s opponent, Democrat Joseph Guillory, to the judgeship. The position became available when former Magistrate Judge Susana Chaparro announced on candidate filing day that she would not run again and was resigning.<\/p>\n

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Then, at the end of June, the feds finally gave Foldy an answer: He could keep his job while running for office as long as he didn\u2019t work on any programs that involve federal money. Essentially, Foldy said, he can\u2019t even be involved in discussions about applying for federal grants. And he can\u2019t work any of the overtime he was hoping would earn him extra money for his campaign.<\/p>\n

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That, he said, adds up to thousands of dollars he could have spent campaigning.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019m writing about this today because I neglected to report at the end of June that Foldy finally received an answer, and I was asked about it earlier this week.<\/p>\n

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Foldy said he had been prepared to quit his job if the feds told him such action was necessary in order to stay in the race. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Republican candidate for the magistrate judge Division II seat in Do\u00f1a Ana County has a tough road ahead. The first hit to his campaign came in April, when the U.S. Office of Special Counsel began looking into whether Foldy and Sheriff Todd Garrison were in violation of the Hatch Act, which prevents some public […]<\/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-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","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=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}