{"id":5402,"date":"2009-08-24T16:20:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-24T22:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=5402"},"modified":"2009-08-25T09:42:20","modified_gmt":"2009-08-25T15:42:20","slug":"martinez-mailer-touts-ability-to-win-crossover-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/08\/martinez-mailer-touts-ability-to-win-crossover-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinez touts history of winning crossover votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5403\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5403\" title=\"Martinez1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Martinez1-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"Martinez, shown here announcing her gubernatorial campaign in July. (Photo by Heath Haussamen)\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Martinez1-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Martinez1-336x259.jpg 336w, https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/Martinez1.jpg 420w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Martinez, shown here announcing her gubernatorial campaign in July. (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Republican gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/susanamartinez2010.com\/\">Susana Martinez<\/a> has sent out <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/Uploads\/SMBioFinal.pdf\">a mailer<\/a> that promotes her history of winning the crossover votes of Democrats and others in the four times she\u2019s won election as a district attorney.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDo\u00f1a Ana County has 2 registered Democrats for every registered Republican. It is a tough place for a Republican to win,\u201d the mailer states. \u201cBut Susana has proven she can win tough elections in a Democrat county. Even when the top of the ticket fails, she succeeds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mailer, which a source close the campaign said was sent to \u201ca couple thousand Republicans\u201d around the state earlier today, then goes on to point out that, even as GOP presidential candidates lost the county in 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008, Martinez defeated Democratic opponents.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first major attempt to reach Republicans around the state by a regionally known candidate who many believe has the ability and r\u00e9sum\u00e9 to compete heavily in the GOP primary.<\/p>\n<p>There are several other Republicans running or considering running for governor. State Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/janiceforgovernor.com\/\">Janice Arnold-Jones<\/a> has already declared her candidacy. Public relations professional <a href=\"http:\/\/turnerforgovernor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Doug Turner<\/a> appears to be about to formally jump into the race, and former state GOP Chairman <a href=\"http:\/\/allenweh2010.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allen Weh<\/a> has formed an exploratory committee. Former U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Heather_Wilson\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a> says she\u2019s thinking about running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez has sent out a mailer that promotes her history of winning the crossover votes of Democrats and others in the four times she\u2019s won election as a district attorney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[108,115,107],"class_list":["post-5402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-dona-ana-county","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402","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=5402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}