{"id":5915,"date":"2009-09-09T01:06:46","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T07:06:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=5915"},"modified":"2009-09-09T07:41:31","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T13:41:31","slug":"sen-lopez-makes-lieutenant-governor-candidacy-official","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/09\/sen-lopez-makes-lieutenant-governor-candidacy-official\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Lopez makes lieutenant governor candidacy official"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SLOPE\">Linda Lopez<\/a>, D-Albuquerque, made her run for lieutenant governor official this weekend at an event in Albuquerque. Here\u2019s video of the speech she gave there, courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/mrycllns\">Mary Collins<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GLn9O9QPkeA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"344\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/GLn9O9QPkeA&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Lopez faces lots of competition in the primary. Others who have declared their candidacies are Santa Fe County Sheriff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.solanoltgov.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Solano<\/a>, state Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/LCS\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SORTI\" target=\"_blank\">Gerald Ortiz y Pino<\/a> of Albuquerque, State Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/joecampos.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jose Campos<\/a> of Santa Rosa, former state Democratic Party Chairman <a href=\"http:\/\/www.electcolon.com\/\">Brian Col\u00f3n<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrcog-nm.gov\/content\/view\/233\/269\/\">Lawrence Rael<\/a>, executive director of the Mid-Region Council of Governments.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracyfornewmexico.com\/democracy_for_new_mexico\/2009\/07\/matthew-padilla-pondering-run-for-new-mexico-lt-governor.html\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Padilla<\/a>, a law student and former U.S. Navy officer, and Espa\u00f1ola Mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cityofespanola.org\/mayor-biography.html\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Maestas<\/a> say they are considering running.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Sen. Linda Lopez, D-Albuquerque, made her run for lieutenant governor official this weekend at an event in Albuquerque. Here\u2019s video of the speech she gave there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[108,107],"class_list":["post-5915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915","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=5915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}