{"id":922,"date":"2006-11-27T15:34:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-27T21:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/da-martinez-might-be-headed-for-higher-office\/"},"modified":"2006-11-27T15:34:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-27T21:34:00","slug":"da-martinez-might-be-headed-for-higher-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/da-martinez-might-be-headed-for-higher-office\/","title":{"rendered":"DA Martinez might be headed for higher office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Do\u00f1a Ana County District Attorney Susana Martinez might seek one of the state\u2019s top two jobs in 2010.<\/p>\n

State Republican Party Chairman Allen Weh told the Albuquerque Tribune<\/a> he believes the popular district attorney would make a good attorney general, lieutenant governor or governor. She was one of five rising stars in the party he named.<\/p>\n

Martinez told me she isn\u2019t interested in attorney general, and said she was asked but refused to run for the office this year. When I told her that leaves the state\u2019s top two jobs as options, she laughed.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy focus is going to be on running for re-election for district attorney in two years,\u201d Martinez said. \u201cThat is my only focus right now; however, I\u2019m not closing the door to any possibility beyond that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Except attorney general, which Martinez said is not as \u201cexciting\u201d a job as district attorney. Regardless, her comments were exactly what you\u2019d expect to hear from someone seriously considering a run for higher office.<\/p>\n

Martinez is a popular Republican in a Democratic county. She received 58 percent of the vote in 2004, when she was elected to her third term as district attorney.<\/p>\n

Weh told me he believes Martinez would make a strong gubernatorial candidate.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe\u2019s one of probably 10 people who could be a serious candidate,\u201d he said, adding that, when you consider that former Gov. Gary Johnson wasn\u2019t in politics before he was elected to the top job, \u201cMaking the jump from district attorney to governor isn\u2019t impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weh sounded most excited about the possibility of U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce running for governor, however.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019d be a very tough guy to beat,\u201d Weh said, adding that Martinez would make a strong congressional candidate.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can see her running for Congressman Pearce\u2019s seat if he ever vacates it,\u201d Weh said. \u201cThat would be a very attractive option for her.\u201d<\/p>\n

Weh also mentioned as rising stars in his party Jim Bibb, who ran unsuccessfully for attorney general this year; Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White; and R.J. Berry, a newly elected member of the state House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Do\u00f1a Ana County District Attorney Susana Martinez might seek one of the state\u2019s top two jobs in 2010. State Republican Party Chairman Allen Weh told the Albuquerque Tribune he believes the popular district attorney would make a good attorney general, lieutenant governor or governor. She was one of five rising stars in the party he […]<\/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-922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922","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=922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}