{"id":6158,"date":"2009-09-14T18:26:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T00:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=6158"},"modified":"2009-09-14T18:26:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-15T00:26:10","slug":"abq-nurse-says-she%e2%80%99s-running-for-lieutenant-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/09\/abq-nurse-says-she%e2%80%99s-running-for-lieutenant-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"ABQ nurse says she\u2019s running for lieutenant governor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bea Sheridan<\/p><\/div>\n

A registered nurse and Republican said today she\u2019s joining the race for lieutenant governor.<\/p>\n

Bea Sheridan said in a news release that she is running \u201cbecause we are failing our children by remaining silent.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI will be a leader for the future of our children so they will not inherit the mess we have created by our silence,\u201d she said. \u201cI am no longer silent. I am no longer willing to sit by and let this state government ruin our children\u2019s future.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sheridan said in the release that she is \u201ca former business owner, author of two books on medicine, and currently is a registered nurse who runs the Pain Clinic at Lovelace Rehabilitation Hospital.\u201d She\u2019s also a mother of three and a grandmother of one. She\u2019s lived in Albuquerque for 38 years and says she has served on the Bernalillo County GOP\u2019s central committee and as a ward chairman.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs lieutenant governor, I will look past the labels that identify us as being different from one another, and focus on the solutions to bring positive change for everyone,\u201d Sheridan said in the release. \u201cThere are many problems this state has failed to address. We are spending over half of our budget on education, yet are near the bottom in performance in every category. With a 46 percent dropout rate, we need to address the issues that are causing\u00a0our children\u00a0to leave school.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said it\u2019s difficult to create new jobs until education is improved, but she also favors \u201caddressing the current tax code and rules and regulations that are causing businesses to move elsewhere, or not come here in the first place.\u201d<\/p>\n

On health care, Sheridan said she\u2019s \u201ca believer in personal responsibility with assistance when necessary\u201d and said she will \u201cfocus on making good health methods available to all our citizens.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI believe in medical savings accounts and catastrophic insurance that will cover major illnesses and accidents,\u201d she said. \u201cI do not believe in the total takeover of health care by the government, at a state or national level. We need to make health care choices for our families and ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

And Sheridan said she believes people must \u201cwork together to regain our freedoms promised us in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Many have fought to protect these freedoms, and we cannot stand by and allow them to have died in vain.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two other Republicans have declared their candidacies for lieutenant governor — Santa Fe radiologist and former gubernatorial candidate J.R. Damron<\/a> and former state Rep. Brian Moore<\/a> of Clayton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A registered nurse and Republican said today she\u2019s joining the race for lieutenant governor. Bea Sheridan said in a news release that she is running \u201cbecause we are failing our children by remaining silent.\u201d<\/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-6158","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\/6158","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=6158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}