{"id":7744,"date":"2009-10-13T09:21:24","date_gmt":"2009-10-13T15:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=7744"},"modified":"2009-10-13T09:21:24","modified_gmt":"2009-10-13T15:21:24","slug":"city-council-candidate-forum-being-held-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/10\/city-council-candidate-forum-being-held-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"City council candidate forum being held tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-6734\" title=\"Las Cruces logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Las-Cruces-logo.jpg\" alt=\"Las Cruces logo\" width=\"116\" height=\"107\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Las Cruces City Council candidates will participate in another forum this evening.<\/p>\n<p>The forum, sponsored by the League of Women Voters, will be held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Munson Senior Center, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=munson+center,+las+cruces&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=47.215051,60.205078&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=munson+center,&amp;hnear=Las+Cruces,+NM&amp;z=15&amp;iwloc=A\">975 S. Mesquite Street<\/a> in Las Cruces. All six council candidates are expected to attend. They\u2019ll be asked questions that are submitted in writing by audience members.<\/p>\n<p>There are six candidates vying for three seats on the council in the Nov. 3 election.<\/p>\n<p>In the District 3 race, Mayor Pro-Tem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.las-cruces.org\/council\/district3.shtm\">Dolores C. Archuleta<\/a> is being challenged by <a href=\"http:\/\/olgapedroza.org\/\">Olga Pedroza<\/a>. In the District 5 race, Councilor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giljonesforcouncil.com\/\">Gil Jones<\/a> is being challenged by Gill M. Sorg. In the District 6 race, Councilor <a href=\"http:\/\/councilorsharonthomas.com\/\">Sharon K. Thomas<\/a> is being challenged by <a href=\"http:\/\/citizensforharbison.com\/views.html\">James W. Harbison<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Absentee voting by mail is underway, and in-person absentee voting begins Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Las Cruces City Council candidates will participate in another forum this evening. The forum, sponsored by the League of Women Voters, will be held from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Munson Senior Center, 975 S. Mesquite Street.<\/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":[145],"class_list":["post-7744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-las-cruces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744","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=7744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}