{"id":41969,"date":"2022-02-26T10:43:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-26T17:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-lawmaker-pleads-not-guilty-wont-seek-reelection\/"},"modified":"2022-02-26T17:43:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T17:43:31","slug":"new-mexico-lawmaker-pleads-not-guilty-wont-seek-reelection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-lawmaker-pleads-not-guilty-wont-seek-reelection\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico lawmaker pleads not guilty, won\u2019t seek reelection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=83b29ec7-ec09-48e3-930c-d8524bc211df&#038;function=cover&#038;type=preview&#038;source=false&#038;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" alt=\"Albuquerque Rep. Georgene Louis, who was charged with drunken driving during this year\u2019s Legislative session, won\u2019t seek re-election, according to a statement from her lawyer. (Morgan Lee\/AP file)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Albuquerque Rep. Georgene Louis, who was charged with drunken driving during this year\u2019s Legislative session, won\u2019t seek re-election, according to a statement from her lawyer. (Morgan Lee\/AP file)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">onset<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SANTA FE \u2013 A New Mexico lawmaker charged with drunken driving during this year\u2019s Legislative session won\u2019t seek re-election, according to a statement from her lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has been an honor to serve the constituents of House District 26 for the past ten years. I have decided not to seek re-election in 2022. I send my sincerest thank you to everyone who has supported me over my tenure as State Representative,\u201d Albuquerque Rep. Georgene Louis said, a statement shared by her attorney, Kitren Fischer.<\/p>\n<p>Republican lawmakers called in Louis to resign after her arrest. She missed a Legislative hearing at a committee she leads <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-mexico-arrests-albuquerque-santa-fe-b103f9d159571a7f817c55e764b98450\" id=\"link-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">shortly after the arrest<\/a>. She later cast votes remotely after making bail but wasn\u2019t seen inside the Capitol for the rest of the legislative session.<\/p>\n<p>Louis, a lawyer for Tesuque Pueblo and a one-time congressional candidate, was seen as a rising star in the Democratic Party.<\/p>\n<p>She initially apologized after her arrest but hasn\u2019t commented about details later <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/new-mexico-arrests-albuquerque-santa-fe-b103f9d159571a7f817c55e764b98450\" id=\"link-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">revealed in a video<\/a> of it, like the fact that she flashed her lawmaker credentials to the officer.<\/p>\n<p>The story was first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/2473778\/state-rep-georgene-louis-wont-seek-re-election-after-dwi-arrest.html\" id=\"link-3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported by the <em id=\"emphasis-de2e4f47d8c9e816a065824b665299dd\">Albuquerque Journal<\/em><\/a>. The paper reports that Louis pleaded not guilty to the drunken driving charge and is scheduled to appear in court on March 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albuquerque Rep. Georgene Louis, who was charged with drunken driving during this year\u2019s Legislative session, won\u2019t seek re-election, according to a statement from her lawyer. (Morgan Lee\/AP file)onset SANTA FE \u2013 A New Mexico lawmaker charged with drunken driving during this year\u2019s Legislative session won\u2019t seek re-election, according to a statement from her lawyer. \u201cIt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[815,138],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-41969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-associated-press-new-mexico","tag-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41969"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=41969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}