{"id":9169,"date":"2009-11-10T12:28:19","date_gmt":"2009-11-10T19:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=9169"},"modified":"2009-11-10T12:28:19","modified_gmt":"2009-11-10T19:28:19","slug":"otero-county-officials-endorse-martinez-for-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/11\/otero-county-officials-endorse-martinez-for-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Otero County officials endorse Martinez for governor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7286\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7286\" title=\"Martinez, Susana\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Martinez-Susana.jpg\" alt=\"Susana Martinez\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susana Martinez<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Republican gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/susanamartinez2010.com\/\">Susana Martinez<\/a> today announced the endorsements of three elected officials from Otero County.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez said in a news release that the endorsements from three Republicans &#8212; state Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SDURA\">Dianna Duran<\/a>, County Treasurer Grace Gonzalez and County Commissioner Ronny Rardin &#8212; show that her campaign \u201cis picking up momentum.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026we will continue to take our message of accountability and reform to every voter in our great state,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Duran, in the release, said Martinez \u201chas a proven track record taking on corruption as the\u00a0Do\u00f1a Ana County district attorney\u00a0and will bring much-needed reform to\u00a0Santa Fe\u00a0as our state\u2019s next governor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSusana Martinez has won many tough elections in a county where Republicans are outnumbered 3 to 1, and is the type of candidate that can go toe-to-toe and defeat the Democrats next fall,\u201d Gonzalez said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHaving looked at all the candidates running for governor, I strongly believe Susana Martinez will best represent Otero County and\u00a0New Mexico\u00a0and I enthusiastically support her candidacy,\u201d Rardin said.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez is competing in the GOP primary against state Rep.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/janiceforgovernor.com\/\">Janice Arnold-Jones<\/a>, 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>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez today announced the endorsements of three elected officials from Otero County.<\/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-9169","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\/9169","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=9169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}