{"id":8861,"date":"2009-11-03T16:41:40","date_gmt":"2009-11-03T22:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=8861"},"modified":"2009-11-03T16:41:40","modified_gmt":"2009-11-03T22:41:40","slug":"gardner-endorses-martinez-for-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/11\/gardner-endorses-martinez-for-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardner endorses Martinez for governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8862\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8862\" title=\"Gardner, Keith\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Gardner-Keith.jpg\" alt=\"Keith Gardner\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Keith Gardner<\/p><\/div>\n<p>House Minority Whip <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HGARD\">Keith Gardner<\/a>, R-Roswell, put his support behind <a href=\"http:\/\/susanamartinez2010.com\/\">Susana Martinez\u2019s<\/a> campaign for governor today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe it\u2019s important that Republicans support the one candidate who not only shares our conservative values, but can also defeat\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianedenish.com\/\">Diane Denish<\/a>,\u201d Gardner said in a news release. \u201cThat person is clearly Susana Martinez.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has won elections in a county where Republicans are outnumbered nearly three to one,\u201d he said. \u201cNew Mexicans will not be fooled by candidates attempting to dramatically re-invent themselves for this election.\u00a0Susana Martinez is authentic and has a proven record fighting for New Mexicans.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martinez said she\u2019s proud to have Gardner\u2019s support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs an elected leader in the House Republican caucus, Keith is someone who understands how important it is to elect a governor who will fight against those in Santa Fe who want to continue to grow government and saddle our children and grandchildren with massive debt,\u201d Martinez said. \u201cI look forward to working with Keith in the months ahead to communicate our message of accountability and reform to every voter in our great state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Martinez is competing in the GOP primary against one of Gardner\u2019s colleagues &#8212; state Rep.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/janiceforgovernor.com\/\">Janice Arnold-Jones<\/a> \u2013 in addition to public relations professional\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/turnerforgovernor.com\/\">Doug Turner<\/a> and former state GOP Chairman\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/10\/2009\/10\/2009\/10\/weh-raises-560k-includes-250k-personal-loan\/\">Allen Weh<\/a>. Weh was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allenweh2010.com\/News\/NewsRead.aspx?guid=1854a716-581b-4c9e-8281-d2e77df5b269\">recently endorsed<\/a> by former state Sen. Don Kidd.<\/p>\n<p>The Republicans are battling for the right to take on Denish, a Democrat, next November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Whip Keith Gardner, R-Roswell, put his support behind Susana Martinez\u2019s campaign for governor today. \u201cI believe it\u2019s important that Republicans support the one candidate who not only shares our conservative values, but can also defeat Diane Denish,\u201d Gardner said.<\/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-8861","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\/8861","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=8861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}