NM Auditor to run again in 2010

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) - New Mexico State Auditor Hector Balderas says he will run for re-election next year.

Balderas, a Democrat, is in his first term. He was elected in 2006.

He is a lawyer from Wagon Mound in northern New Mexico.

Balderas was a freshman member of the state House of Representatives when the Democratic Party selected him in 2006 as its general election nominee after the winner of the Democratic primary election withdrew.