NMPolitics.net: Nina Martinez Still In For GOP Chair

Nina Martinez

From NMPolitics.net - Nina Martinez says she won’t drop out of the race to become chair of the Republican Party of New Mexico even though a number of GOP elected officials are backing her opponent. “I have no intention of dropping out of the race for RPNM state chairman. This is a lifelong goal for me,” Martinez, the party’s current first vice chair, wrote in an e-mail. Earlier this week, Gov.-elect Susana Martinez (no relation), Congressman-elect Steve Pearce and others signed a letter to the party’s delegates urging them to make former Hobbs Mayor Monty Newman the chairman when they meet Saturday. But Nina Martinez said Newman “has not been active in the party and isn’t even a member of the state central committee. He can’t even vote for himself or any other officers on Saturday.” Read full story here:

NMPolitics.net: Nina Martinez Still In For GOP Chair