{"id":5524,"date":"2010-06-02T17:56:24","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T21:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=5524"},"modified":"2010-06-02T17:56:24","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T21:56:24","slug":"update-on-female-conservatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/5524\/update-on-female-conservatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Update on Female Conservatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, CFIF highlighted <a href=\"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/index.php\/commentary\/54-state-of-affairs\/628-the-rise-of-female-conservatives-\" target=\"_blank\">the rise of female conservatives<\/a> as a political force.\u00a0 Last night, voters had their say.\u00a0 Republican primary voters in Mississippi\u2019s first congressional district deflected Fox News analyst Angela McGlowan\u2019s overtures, handing her <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/right-now\/2010\/06\/curtains_for_dale_peterson_and.html \" target=\"_blank\">a distant third place<\/a> finish.\u00a0 McGlowan\u2019s political future will depend on whether she steps up her local presence in Oxford, MS, to build towards another race.<\/p>\n<p>For Susana Martinez, though, the future is now.\u00a0 After <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052748703561604575282590298550332.html?mod=WSJ_latestheadlines \" target=\"_blank\">handily beating<\/a> her male opponent in the GOP primary yesterday, Martinez is poised to be a \u201cgame changing\u201d candidate if elected governor of New Mexico later this year.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven\u2019t heard of Martinez, you will.\u00a0 She\u2019s served thirteen years as the Las Cruces-based District Attorney where she secured reelection twice despite Democrats outnumbering Republicans 3-to1 in her county.\u00a0 Most impressively for the governor\u2019s race, she has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanamartinez2010.com\/on-the-issues\/economy\/new-mexicos-economic-recovery\/ \" target=\"_blank\">a detailed plan to fix New Mexico\u2019s sputtering economy<\/a>.\u00a0 Hmm\u2026tough career prosecutor with a detailed fiscally conservative vision.\u00a0 Sound familiar?\u00a0 Thankfully, she\u2019s a lot prettier than New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.<\/p>\n<p>If she\u2019s half as forceful, in a few years New Mexico might join New Jersey as two of the friendliest states to business and consumers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, CFIF highlighted the rise of female conservatives as a political force.\u00a0 Last night, voters had their say.\u00a0 Republican primary voters in Mississippi\u2019s first congressional district deflected Fox News analyst Angela McGlowan\u2019s overtures, handing her a distant third place finish.\u00a0 McGlowan\u2019s political future will depend on whether she steps up her local presence in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1334,1034,84,1337,19,410,1335,1336],"class_list":["post-5524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-angela-mcglowan","tag-chris-christie","tag-congress","tag-district-attorney","tag-economy","tag-new-jersey","tag-new-mexico","tag-susana-martinez"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5524"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5527,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5524\/revisions\/5527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}