{"id":7909,"date":"2009-10-15T11:42:35","date_gmt":"2009-10-15T17:42:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=7909"},"modified":"2009-10-15T11:43:27","modified_gmt":"2009-10-15T17:43:27","slug":"farmington%e2%80%99s-mullins-announces-run-for-cd3-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/10\/farmington%e2%80%99s-mullins-announces-run-for-cd3-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmington\u2019s Mullins announces run for CD3 seat"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tom Mullins<\/p><\/div>\n

Tom Mullins<\/a>, an engineer in Farmington, announced today that he\u2019s running as a Republican for the 3rd Congressional District seat held by Democrat Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cNew Mexicans of all parties have the Common Sense which tells them we can no longer spend our way to prosperity on the backs and wages of our children\u00a0or our neighbor\u2019s children,\u201d he states on his campaign Web site<\/a>. \u201cWe each must take upon ourselves more individual responsibility rather than depend upon the state, no matter who\u00a0may be in power.\u00a0I look forward to listening to your concerns as I travel our large district.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mullins will face the Ron Paul-backed Adam Kokesh<\/a> in a primary. Kokesh had set a goal of raising $100,000 to \u201cclear the field\u201d in the primary, and announced days ago that he met that goal<\/a>, but he\u2019ll apparently have an opponent anyway.<\/p>\n

Mullins will make a formal announcement on Saturday at 9:15 a.m. in the rotunda at the Roundhouse<\/a> in Santa Fe, then will hold a \u201ckickoff petition signing announcement event\u201d at the civic center<\/a> in Farmington at 3:30 p.m., according to a news release announcing his candidacy.<\/p>\n

From Mullins\u2019 news release:<\/p>\n

\u201cMullins, a political newcomer, a professional engineer, small business owner, resident of Farmington for over 18 years, and father of two, has announced he will join the race as a Republican.<\/p>\n

\u201cMullins believes that we are all called to serve our country in different ways and at different times in our lives and is prepared to serve the citizens of New Mexico in the 3rd Congressional District. He looks forward to people sharing their ideas and concerns on how to improve our great nation\u2026\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Mullins, an engineer in Farmington, announced today that he\u2019s running as a Republican for the 3rd Congressional District seat held by Democrat Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n. He’ll face Adam Kokesh in the GOP primary.<\/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":[108,116],"class_list":["post-7909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909","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=7909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}