{"id":935,"date":"2006-11-30T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T13:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/stewart-says-shes-the-woman-for-the-job\/"},"modified":"2006-11-30T07:10:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T13:10:00","slug":"stewart-says-shes-the-woman-for-the-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/stewart-says-shes-the-woman-for-the-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart says she&#8217;s the woman for the job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/6506\/2852\/1600\/268558\/Stewart%2C%20Mimi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"FLOAT: right; MARGIN: 0px 0px 10px 10px; CURSOR: hand\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/x\/blogger2\/6506\/2852\/200\/515471\/Stewart%2C%20Mimi.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=229&#038;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Mimi Stewart<\/a> says her experience as head of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee makes her the right person to be House majority leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have proven myself to understand the importance of maintaining our seats and running good campaigns based on progressive politics,\u201d Stewart told me. \u201cI think I would be a really good majority leader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Albuquerque representative said she decided earlier this week to seek the position after learning that <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=210&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Martinez<\/a> of Grants would challenge <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=204&#038;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Lujan<\/a> of Santa Fe for the position of speaker of the House.<\/p>\n<p>Stewart, who has been a member of the House for 12 years, said she understands the system and can bring veteran leadership to the position.<\/p>\n<p>She would not comment on who she is supporting for speaker, and had this to say about whether she would back off if Martinez opted against challenging Lujan and instead sought to keep his position as majority leader:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m going to be flexible and kind of keep my options open,\u201d Stewart said.<\/p>\n<p>She had kind words for Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=186&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Joseph Cervantes<\/a> of Las Cruces, who has pledged to seek the majority leader position if Martinez does not.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s been a really great state representative, and if he wins I can work with him, and if I win, I hope he can work with me,\u201d Stewart said.<\/p>\n<p>She said she saw Cervantes in Santa Fe Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI joked with him, and said, \u2018May the best woman win,\u2019\u201d Stewart said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mimi Stewart says her experience as head of the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee makes her the right person to be House majority leader. \u201cI have proven myself to understand the importance of maintaining our seats and running good campaigns based on progressive politics,\u201d Stewart told me. \u201cI think I would be a really good majority [&hellip;]<\/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-935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935","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=935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}