Posted on 03/14/2010 2:35:01 PM PDT by CedarDave
District Attorney Susana Martinez of Las Cruces topped the Republican candidate field for governor Saturday at the state party's nominating convention in Albuquerque, winning the top ballot spot for the June 1 primary election.
Former state party Chairman Allen Weh was the only other candidate of five Republican gubernatorial contenders to win the necessary 20 percent of the delegate vote for a convention nomination to the ballot.
Martinez won nearly 47 percent of the vote. Weh received 26 percent. "It's a huge step, and (the vote) certainly says Republicans want to unite to take back New Mexico," Martinez said. ... the three remaining candidates — state Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones of Albuquerque, public relations firm owner Doug Turner of Albuquerque and lawyer Pete Domenici Jr. of Albuquerque, the son of former longtime New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M. — came up short of the 20 percent delegate vote needed for convention designation to the June 1 ballot.
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3rd Congressional District candidate Tom Mullins, a Farmington petroleum engineer, received nearly 81 percent of the vote. His challenger, former Marine Adam Kokesh of Santa Fe was just few votes shy of receiving the 20 percent needed to be automatically added to the ballot.
Candidates not getting 20 percent of the convention vote and using a fallback method for being named to the primary election ballot must submit additional nominating petition signatures from registered Republicans.
(Excerpt) Read more at abqjournal.com ...
U.S. Representative-District 3
Tom Mullins, 80.5 percent
Adam Kokesh, 19.5 percent
See these links for information on Kokesh and his Code Pink, Cindy Sheehan type of radicalism. He is apparently being supported by the Ron Paul types though his Marine career was anything but stellar.
New Mexico Primary results: TRAITOR Adam Kokesh LOSES BIG TIME TODAY
Tom Mullins: Adam Kokesh is an internet celebrity and a war protester who makes poor choices
Kokesh (NM) Misrepresents Military Discharge as "Honorable"
New Mexico Freepers: You Won't Want To Miss This Show On Sunday Night!
PING! to the NM list and others.
What would you say his chances are Kokesh of getting on the ballot at this stage?
Results from the other races; no listing or mention of District 1 - it may be that it is uncontested.
U.S. Representative-District 2
Steve Pearce, 92 percent
Cliff Pirtle, 8 percent
Governor
Susana Martinez, 46.6 percent
Allen Weh, 26.2 percent
Janice Arnold-Jones, 13.6 percent
Doug Turner, 9.2 percent
Pete Domenici Jr., 4.6 percent
Lieutenant governor
Brian Moore, 41.2 percent
Kent Cravens, 27.6 percent
John Sanchez, 22.8 percent
J.R. Damron, 8.2 percent
Land commissioner
Matthew Rush, 64.9 percent
James M. Jackson, 18 percent
Spiro Vassilopoulos, 13.3 percent
Bob Cornelius, 3.7 percent
Kokesh is a disaster. I hope this finishes him off.
If the Paulbots were supporting him. It just goes to show that antiwar protesting is a higher priority for them than anything else.
Not good, he got as far as he did flying largely under the radar.
I don’t know; I’m at the other end of the state in Steve Pearce’s district so all I hear is what is reported elsewhere. And I don’t know how many signatures are needed to get on the ballot — no doubt a percentage of Republican votes cast in the last election but what that number is has been unreported.
Tune in this evening to FR blogtalkradio ( http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2470592/posts ) and ask Mullins; he should know.
Yay, the dirt bag found his calling......being a loser.
I would say good. With party blessing, it’s 328 — without, it’s 656. If he couldn’t get 656 signatures, that should have been a sign to him that he ought not be running in the first place.
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Our guests will include Tim Mullins, Republican candidate for the House from Arizona, Bev Perlson of The Band of Mothers, and Chris Hill and Larry Bailey, both of The Gathering of Eagles.
Look into the Mullins campaign at:
http://www.mullinsforcongress.com/
Bev Perlson’s work can be found at:
http://www.thebandofmothers.com/
Chris Hill and Larry Bailey's work can be found at:
http://www.gatheringofeagles.org
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CedarDave, I live in NM 3, when the heck was the election? I only had a municipal election on March 2. Didn’t see anything regarding NM 3. Did I flat out miss something?
It was the Republican Party’s pre-primary nominating convention. You vote at the meeting but I don’t know particulars like who gets to vote (attendees or those associated with a candidate).
Thanks for that. I was going nuts trying to figure out what and were I'd missed the vote...
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