{"id":6827,"date":"2014-05-13T08:10:27","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T14:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6827"},"modified":"2014-05-13T08:10:27","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T14:10:27","slug":"lopez-points-to-her-experience-background-albuquerque-journal-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/lopez-points-to-her-experience-background-albuquerque-journal-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Lopez points to her experience, background | Albuquerque Journal News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/399019\/news\/lope-zpoints-to-her-experience-background.html\">Lopez points to her experience, background | Albuquerque Journal News<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/author\/jmonteleone\">James Monteleone \/ Journal Staff Writer<\/a><br \/>PUBLISHED: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 12:05 am  <\/p>\n<p><i>Copyright \u00a9 2014 Albuquerque Journal<\/i> <\/p>\n<p>For Linda Lopez, running for governor means offering New Mexicans more than a decade of experience as a state legislative leader and the viewpoint of a Hispanic woman. <\/p>\n<p>Lopez, 50, was first elected to the state Senate to represent southwest Albuquerque in 1996, and after one term was tapped to serve as chairwoman of the high-profile Senate Rules Committee. <\/p>\n<p>She says her political experience, ethnicity and gender mean she is best-suited among the five Democratic gubernatorial candidates to challenge Republican Gov. Susana Martinez \u2013 the nation\u2019s first Hispanic female governor \u2013 in November. <\/p>\n<p>It also means she\u2019s better-prepared to collaborate with the Democratic-controlled Legislature than Martinez, Lopez says.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/399019\/news\/lope-zpoints-to-her-experience-background.html\">Lopez points to her experience, background | Albuquerque Journal News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lopez points to her experience, background | Albuquerque Journal News By James Monteleone \/ Journal Staff WriterPUBLISHED: Tuesday, May 13, 2014 at 12:05 am Copyright \u00a9 2014 Albuquerque Journal For Linda Lopez, running for governor means offering New Mexicans more than a decade of experience as a state legislative leader and the viewpoint of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/lopez-points-to-her-experience-background-albuquerque-journal-news\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lopez points to her experience, background | Albuquerque Journal News<\/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":[16,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827","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=6827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6828,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6827\/revisions\/6828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}