{"id":8903,"date":"2009-11-04T15:10:32","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T22:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=8903"},"modified":"2009-11-04T15:10:32","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T22:10:32","slug":"jones-says-he%e2%80%99ll-let-others-analyze-why-he-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/11\/jones-says-he%e2%80%99ll-let-others-analyze-why-he-lost\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones says he\u2019ll let others analyze why he lost"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6725\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6725\" title=\"Jones, Gil\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Jones-Gil.jpg\" alt=\"Gil Jones\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gil Jones<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Outgoing District 5 Las Cruces City Councilor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.giljonesforcouncil.com\/\">Gil Jones<\/a> says it\u2019s not for him to analyze why he lost his re-election battle on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Progressive-backed candidates were successful in winning <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/11\/voters-give-progressives-a-mandate-in-las-cruces\/\">all three city council races<\/a> on the ballot. Jones lost to Gill M. Sorg by about 30 percentage points.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody will have different opinions as to what transpired, and I don\u2019t know that it\u2019s for me to say,\u201d Jones said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to miss my opportunity to work with my city councilors, the good staff of the city. \u2026 It\u2019s been a pleasure to work with the public,\u201d he said. \u201cBut how do we dissect this? I\u2019m not sure that\u2019s for me to say.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing District 5 Las Cruces City Councilor Gil Jones says it\u2019s not for him to analyze why he lost his re-election battle on Tuesday.<\/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-8903","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\/8903","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=8903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}