{"id":6487,"date":"2013-10-18T14:49:27","date_gmt":"2013-10-18T20:49:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6487"},"modified":"2013-10-18T14:49:27","modified_gmt":"2013-10-18T20:49:27","slug":"runoff-will-decide-council-majority-vote-111913","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/runoff-will-decide-council-majority-vote-111913\/","title":{"rendered":"Runoff will decide council majority &#8212; VOTE 11\/19\/13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/283769\/news\/runoff-will-decide-council-majority.html\">Runoff will decide council majority | ABQJournal Online<\/a> By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/author\/dmckay\">Dan McKay \/ Journal Staff Writer<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>About 47 percent of the district\u2019s registered voters are Democrats, and 31 percent are Republicans. \u2026<\/p>\n<p>The candidates are divided on two recent ballot measures brought forth in Albuquerque. <\/p>\n<p>Neither was in office at the time, but at the polls, Arnold-Jones voted against the minimum-wage increase last year, while Gibson supported it. <\/p>\n<p>The two are also split on the proposed ordinance to ban abortions in Albuquerque after 20 weeks of pregnancy. That proposal goes before voters Nov. 19, the same day of the runoff election. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe last thing I want is for Albuquerque to be known as the abortion capital of the world,\u201d Arnold-Jones said. \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s OK to kill babies.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Gibson describes herself as \u201cpro-choice\u201d and said she will vote \u201cno.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt doesn\u2019t belong on a city ballot,\u201d she said. \u201cIt is not constitutional, and I cannot support that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/283769\/news\/runoff-will-decide-council-majority.html\">Runoff will decide council majority | ABQJournal Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hey, Janice, I don\u2019t know anyone who wants Albuquerque to be known as the abortion capital of the world. How about \u201cthe place women lost their freedom and self-determination\u201d &#8212; sound better?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Runoff will decide council majority | ABQJournal Online By Dan McKay \/ Journal Staff Writer About 47 percent of the district\u2019s registered voters are Democrats, and 31 percent are Republicans. \u2026 The candidates are divided on two recent ballot measures brought forth in Albuquerque. Neither was in office at the time, but at the polls, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/runoff-will-decide-council-majority-vote-111913\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Runoff will decide council majority &#8212; VOTE 11\/19\/13<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6487"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6488,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6487\/revisions\/6488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}