{"id":501,"date":"2006-08-24T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-24T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/breaking-news-macias-named-district-judge\/"},"modified":"2006-08-24T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-24T19:08:00","slug":"breaking-news-macias-named-district-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/breaking-news-macias-named-district-judge\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Macias named district judge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Macias%2C%20Fernando.5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Macias%2C%20Fernando.4.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><st1:placename st=\"on\">Former<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">State<\/st1:placetype> Sen. Fernando Macias has been named to fill a new district judgeship in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>, several sources confirmed today.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">An announcement is expected later today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Gov. Bill Richardson spent about two weeks considering Democrats Macias and Bernadette Sedillo before making the decision early this morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Macias will be one of two judges on the children\u2019s court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Macias was the more controversial of the two candidates, and the governor will take some heat for appointing him. Sources tell me Sedillo didn\u2019t interview well and <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> simply believed Macias was more qualified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Macias, however, hasn\u2019t practiced law in about a decade and doesn\u2019t have an active law license, though he can easily remedy that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The choice will likely be unpopular in Sunland Park, where residents are still upset over the arrest of their mayor by the county sheriff\u2019s department when Macias was county manager in the late 1990s, and a nasty legal battle over the locating of a landfill in their community in the 1980s by a company represented by Macias when he was a practicing attorney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The permanent stink is a constant reminder of their dislike for Macias.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Macias does, however, bring an impressive range of experience to the job. In addition to being an attorney, a former state senator and county manager, he was the director of the Mesilla Valley Economic Development Alliance and the head of a bi-national environmental agency based in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Ciudad Juarez<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. He is currently the director of New Mexico Legal Aid, which provides civil legal services to the poor, but said he would resign that position if appointed to the judgeship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Macias will make an annual salary of $96,581. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former State Sen. Fernando Macias has been named to fill a new district judgeship in Las Cruces, several sources confirmed today. An announcement is expected later today. Gov. Bill Richardson spent about two weeks considering Democrats Macias and Bernadette Sedillo before making the decision early this morning. Macias will be one of two judges on [&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-501","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501","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=501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/501\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}