{"id":9303,"date":"2009-11-12T20:11:52","date_gmt":"2009-11-13T03:11:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=9303"},"modified":"2009-11-12T20:11:52","modified_gmt":"2009-11-13T03:11:52","slug":"state-democratic-party-gets-new-executive-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/11\/state-democratic-party-gets-new-executive-director\/","title":{"rendered":"State Democratic Party gets new executive director"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_9304\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9304\" title=\"Forrester, Scott\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/Forrester-Scott.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Forrester\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Forrester<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Democratic Party of New Mexico Chairman Javier Gonzales named Scott Forrester as the party\u2019s next executive director earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>Forrester will replace current director Josh Geise on Dec. 1, Gonzales announced in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmdemocrats.net\/news.asp?artid=459\">a news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look forward to working with Scott and continuing the fight for change New Mexicans voted for last year,\u201d\u00a0Gonzales said.<\/p>\n<p>Forrester is an\u00a0Albuquerque\u00a0native who has worked on the campaigns of John Kerry and Hillary Clinton. He has also been chief of staff to outgoing Albuquerque Mayor Martin Ch\u00e1vez.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am honored to have the opportunity to serve\u00a0the Democratic Party of New Mexico,\u201d Forrester said in the release. \u201cAs a native New Mexican, I believe deeply in the Democratic values of our state, and I look forward to working to continue the progress Democrats have brought to\u00a0New Mexico. I will work enthusiastically to ensure Democrats are elected throughout New Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales said he also wanted to thank Geise for his service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has been a friend and asset to the party, and I wish him the best of luck in his future endeavors,\u201d Gonzales said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic Party of New Mexico Chairman Javier Gonzales named Scott Forrester as the party\u2019s next executive director earlier today.<\/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":[108,135],"class_list":["post-9303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-democratic-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303","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=9303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}