{"id":5919,"date":"2009-09-09T01:28:27","date_gmt":"2009-09-09T07:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=5919"},"modified":"2009-09-09T01:28:27","modified_gmt":"2009-09-09T07:28:27","slug":"damron-enters-lieutenant-governors-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/09\/damron-enters-lieutenant-governors-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Damron enters lieutenant governor&#8217;s race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5920\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5920\" title=\"Damron, JR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Damron-JR.jpg\" alt=\"J.R. Damron\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">J.R. Damron<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Santa Fe radiologist and former gubernatorial candidate J.R. Damron jumped into the lieutenant governor\u2019s race Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.santafenewmexican.com\/Local%20News\/Damron-seeks-GOP-nod-as-lieutenant-governor\">The Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a> has the goods on the Republican Damron\u2019s announcement in Santa Fe:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cHaving practiced medicine in Santa Fe since 1984, Damron said he brings a unique perspective on a timely topic. \u2018Health care is very timely right now and I\u2019d be glad to talk about that. But it won\u2019t be just that, it will be the economy of our state, education, corruption,\u2019 Damron, 65, said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I feel there\u2019s been way too much corruption and scandals that have really tainted our state,\u2019 he said. \u2018I think there should have been ethics laws enacted seven years ago and that hasn\u2019t happened,\u2019 he said.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Damron made his announcement at the Santa Fe Imaging Center. In addition to practicing there, he works at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center, Los Alamos Medical Center and the Santa Fe Indian Health Service Hospital, The New Mexican reported.<\/p>\n<p>Damron ran for governor in 2006 but <a href=\"..\/2006\/06\/damron-says-he-quit-because-campaign-needs-to-move-%E2%80%98in-a-different-direction%E2%80%99\/\">withdrew in mid-June<\/a> during a closed-door state GOP meeting. He was replaced on the ballot at that meeting by John Dendahl, who went on to be steamrolled by the Gov. Bill Richardson re-election train.<\/p>\n<p>According to The New Mexican, Damron \u201cdescribes himself as a conservative Republican, has been treasurer of the Santa Fe County Republican Party and serves on the county\u2019s Central Committee. In addition, he is on the State Republican Executive Committee and State Central Committee.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The only other declared Republican lieutenant governor candidate is former state Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianmoorenm.com\/\">Brian Moore<\/a> of Clayton, who entered the race <a href=\"..\/2009\/09\/former-rep-moore-running-for-lieutenant-governor\/\">last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Santa Fe radiologist and former gubernatorial candidate J.R. Damron joined former state Rep. Brian Moore of Clayton in the Republican primary race for lieutenant governor on Tuesday.<\/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-5919","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\/5919","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=5919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}