{"id":805,"date":"2006-11-03T16:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-03T22:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/an-analysis-of-area-prc-races\/"},"modified":"2006-11-03T16:40:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-03T22:40:00","slug":"an-analysis-of-area-prc-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/an-analysis-of-area-prc-races\/","title":{"rendered":"An analysis of area PRC races"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s my analysis of the two Public Regulation Commission races whose districts include parts of Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> Ana<\/st1:placename> County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>. <\/p>\n

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PRC District 5<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>In this race, Democrat Sandy Jones faces Republican Earl Greer. Jones knocked off incumbent E. Shirley Baca in the primary.<\/p>\n

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Both candidates are from Sierra<\/st1:placename> County<\/st1:placetype>, bucking the conventional wisdom that the commissioner from this 11-county district would most likely be from Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, the population center.<\/p>\n

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Both have run active campaigns and raised a lot of money. Greer has the name recognition that comes from a previous, failed run for Congress, and Jones is the chair of the New Mexico State Fair Commission. Jones has the advantage of being a Democrat in a district that encompasses the southwestern portion of the state, but Greer is half Hispanic and fluent in Spanish.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Jones carries a gold star for beating Baca in the primary. The problem is that the vote wasn\u2019t necessarily an endorsement of Jones. It was Baca\u2019s hometown of Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> that gave Jones the victory, and many were likely voting against her.<\/p>\n

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Greer faced two Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> opponents in the primary, so he\u2019ll have more support, at least from Republicans, than he did in the primary election.<\/p>\n

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Jones has received a lot of support from Gov. Bill Richardson, but both candidates are competent and active and visible around the district. Expect this race to be close.<\/p>\n

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PRC District 2<\/span><\/p>\n

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In this race, Democrat Stephanie DuBois is trying to unseat Republican incumbent David King. King carries the name recognition of being THAT King, and DuBois has a big hill to climb in this conservative district, which stretches west of Alamogordo<\/st1:city> into a bit of Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> Ana<\/st1:placename> County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n

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DuBois, to her credit, is trying out the state\u2019s new experiment in public financing of campaigns, and that has allowed her to keep up financially with King. The question is whether that will make a difference. Most I\u2019ve spoken with don\u2019t think it will. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here\u2019s my analysis of the two Public Regulation Commission races whose districts include parts of Do\u00f1a Ana County. PRC District 5 In this race, Democrat Sandy Jones faces Republican Earl Greer. Jones knocked off incumbent E. Shirley Baca in the primary. Both candidates are from Sierra County, bucking the conventional wisdom that the commissioner from […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","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=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}