{"id":559,"date":"2006-09-08T17:57:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-08T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/09\/armijo-democratic-party-both-ask-district-judges-to-intervene-saturday-meeting-still-on\/"},"modified":"2006-09-08T17:57:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-08T23:57:00","slug":"armijo-democratic-party-both-ask-district-judges-to-intervene-saturday-meeting-still-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/09\/armijo-democratic-party-both-ask-district-judges-to-intervene-saturday-meeting-still-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Armijo, Democratic Party both ask district judges to intervene; Saturday meeting still on"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Democratic Party of New Mexico and Jeff Armijo have both filed lawsuits asking district judges to back their positions in the dispute over whether Armijo<\/st1:place> should be the party\u2019s candidate for state auditor. <\/p>\n

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The Democratic Party filed its complaint Friday afternoon in the First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. You can read the complaint by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Armijo\u2019s attorney, Paul M. Kienzle of Albuquerque<\/st1:city>, filed his complaint Friday in the Second Judicial District Court in Albuquerque<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>. You can read the complaint by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The dispute won\u2019t stop the Democratic Party from meeting Saturday to pick a candidate to replace Armijo<\/st1:place> on the ballot. Kienzle also filed a request for an injunction stopping Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron from removing Armijo\u2019s name from the ballot, and District Judge Geraldine Rivera in Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> has set a hearing for Tuesday at 4 p.m. \u2013 an hour before the deadline to put candidates\u2019 names on the ballot.<\/p>\n

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I couldn\u2019t reach officials with the Democratic Party to find out if a judge in Santa Fe<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> has set a hearing.<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n

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Armijo<\/st1:place> announced on Aug. 29 that he was dropping out of the race. That followed a meeting with Gov. Bill Richardson, who pressured him to get out.<\/p>\n

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Armijo had been plagued by allegations of making unwanted sexual advances toward a campaign volunteer \u2013 allegations that are under review by prosecutors in Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n

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Armijo<\/st1:place> never filed the paperwork normally required to withdraw. On Tuesday, the last day to withdraw, Armijo<\/st1:place> announced he was staying in the race. The Democratic Party and governor\u2019s office argued that it was too late and said his prior news release constituted a formal withdrawal. The attorney general\u2019s office agreed, and the secretary of state announced she had taken Armijo<\/st1:place>\u2019s name off the ballot, leading to today\u2019s court filings.<\/p>\n

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Update, 6:10 p.m.:<\/span> Democratic Party Chair John Wertheim said a hearing has not been set in Santa Fe<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> on his party\u2019s request. He said he\u2019s glad his party also filed a lawsuit, because Armijo\u2019s complaint names the secretary of state as a defendant but not the Democratic Party, which he said indicates that Armijo<\/st1:place> wanted to take away the party\u2019s ability to argue in the case.<\/p>\n

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He said there are other reasons his party filed the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe wanted to have an affirmative statement of confidence in our legal position,\u201d Wertheim said. \u201cOur party is very deeply affected by this issue.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been unable to reach Kienzle for comment.<\/p>\n

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The Democratic Party of New Mexico and Jeff Armijo have both filed lawsuits asking district judges to back their positions in the dispute over whether Armijo should be the party\u2019s candidate for state auditor. The Democratic Party filed its complaint Friday afternoon in the First Judicial District Court in Santa Fe. You can read the […]<\/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-559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559","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=559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/559\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}