{"id":12561,"date":"2010-02-04T11:48:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T18:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=12561"},"modified":"2010-02-04T22:41:52","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T05:41:52","slug":"pearce-feeling-%e2%80%98very-positive%e2%80%99-about-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/02\/pearce-feeling-%e2%80%98very-positive%e2%80%99-about-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearce feeling \u2018very positive\u2019 about campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12562\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12562\" title=\"Pearce, Steve\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Pearce-Steve.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pearce, shown today at the Roundhouse. (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/peopleforpearce.com\/\">Steve Pearce<\/a> says the movement that helped <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scott_Brown\">Scott Brown<\/a> recently win a Senate seat in Massachusetts also helps him in his quest to retake New Mexico\u2019s 2nd Congressional District seat \u2013 but it isn\u2019t because he\u2019s a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is not about Republicans. This is about frustration with Washington,\u201d Pearce said today in an interview. \u201cIf Republicans make the mistake of believing this is about us, there\u2019s going to be a tendency to overinflate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pearce, speaking at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe, said the message from voters is clear: \u201cThings have got to change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former congressman, who\u2019s seeking to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harryforcongress.com\/\">Harry Teague<\/a>, was in Santa Fe to meet with members of the state Christian Association of Parent Educators \u2013 a homeschooling group whose members gathered at the Roundhouse to celebrate the governor\u2019s declaring the first week in February as home education week in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>Pearce told members of the group that evangelical Christians could be more influential if more voted. He said half of eligible evangelicals register to vote \u2013 and only half of those actually do vote.<\/p>\n<p>He also told them they could be more influential if they took more time to volunteer on campaigns \u2013 such as his \u2013 and run for offices such as school board positions, though he said he knows many of them lead busy lives.<\/p>\n<p>In his interview, Pearce said he\u2019s feeling \u201cvery positive\u201d about the race and confident that his campaign will \u201chave the resources we need.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Recently, two Republicans from Las Cruces began campaigns for state <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/01\/chavez-to-run-for-auditor-instead-of-land-commissioner\/\">auditor<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/02\/former-dona-ana-county-official-running-for-state-treasurer\/\">treasurer<\/a>. In addition, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/12\/martinez-i%e2%80%99ll-make-the-tough-%e2%80%93-and-ethical-%e2%80%93-decisions\/\">one of five<\/a> Republicans for governor is from Las Cruces.<\/p>\n<p>As the largest city in the 2nd District, Las Cruces is a place where Teague has concentrated much of his time because it its significant population of Democrats. Pearce said having Republicans from the city running in statewide races could help him in his race against Teague, though he clarified that he wasn\u2019t endorsing anyone in the gubernatorial race.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Cruces shows up \u2013 a lot of Republicans \u2013 it could be good for us,\u201d Pearce said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Pearce says the movement that helped Scott Brown recently win a Senate seat in Massachusetts also helps him in his quest to retake New Mexico\u2019s 2nd Congressional District seat \u2013 but it isn\u2019t because he\u2019s a Republican.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[108,107,116],"class_list":["post-12561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-roundhouse","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}