{"id":8911,"date":"2009-11-04T16:26:10","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T23:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=8911"},"modified":"2009-11-04T16:26:34","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T23:26:34","slug":"dem-chairman-touts-progressive-wins-in-las-cruces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/11\/dem-chairman-touts-progressive-wins-in-las-cruces\/","title":{"rendered":"Dem chairman touts progressive wins in Cruces"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8912\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8912\" title=\"Gonzales, Javier\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Gonzales-Javier.jpg\" alt=\"Javier Gonzales\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Javier Gonzales<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/11\/voters-give-progressives-a-mandate-in-las-cruces\/\">progressive wins<\/a> in three city council elections in Las Cruces on Tuesday are a good sign for Democrats heading into the 2010 election.<\/p>\n<p>The victories by progressives in Las Cruces came as Republicans had <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/politico\/20091104\/pl_politico\/29116\">a good night<\/a> in some other high-profile races across the nation. Republicans in New Mexico have put out several statements today playing up the GOP victories in other states.<\/p>\n<p>Those Republicans should instead be paying attention to Las Cruces, Democratic Party Chairman Javier Gonzales said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile Republican leaders are focused on election results in other states, here in\u00a0New Mexico,\u00a0Democratic candidates\u00a0built on the energy and enthusiasm created during of the\u00a02008 elections\u00a0to claim victories in yesterday\u2019s city election in Las Cruces,\u201d he said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019d like to congratulate Olga Pedroza, Gill Sorg and Sharon Thomas on their impressive victories,\u201d Gonzales added. \u201cDemocrats are organizing in all regions of New Mexico, continuing the movement Obama built in 2008, and we are well-positioned to win big again in 2010.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some Republicans <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/10\/what-does-berry%E2%80%99s-victory-mean-for-2010\/\">said the same thing<\/a> \u2013 only about their party\u2019s chances in 2010 &#8212; after the GOP took control of Albuquerque city government a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico says progressive wins in three city council elections in Las Cruces on Tuesday are a good sign for Democrats heading into the 2010 election.<\/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":[108,145],"class_list":["post-8911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-las-cruces"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911","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=8911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}