{"id":12748,"date":"2010-02-08T14:12:21","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T21:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=12748"},"modified":"2010-02-08T14:18:27","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T21:18:27","slug":"teague-focused-on-representing-not-campaigning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/02\/teague-focused-on-representing-not-campaigning\/","title":{"rendered":"Teague focused on representing, not campaigning"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_12749\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12749\" title=\"Teague, Harry\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/Teague-Harry.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Harry Teague during today&#39;s news conference at the Roundhouse. (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harryforcongress.com\/\">Harry Teague<\/a>, D-N.M., had little to say today about his looming election battle against former Republican U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/peopleforpearce.com\/\">Steve Pearce<\/a>, saying he\u2019s more focused on doing his job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been working on being a congressman, not campaigning,\u201d Teague said in an interview at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe.<\/p>\n<p>He said he\u2019s been working hard for his constituents, traveling the 2nd Congressional District in Southern New Mexico that he represents and holding almost 100 public forums and meetings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a congressman, you\u2019re supposed to represent the people, and the way you do that is to talk to them and listen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Teague was in Santa Fe to announce that he\u2019s introduced <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/02\/teague-wants-more-states-to-collect-dna-from-felony-arrestees\/\">federal legislation<\/a> designed to encourage additional states to collect DNA from people arrested for felony crimes so it can be checked against DNA gathered from unsolved crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Teague did say when he starts actively campaigning for re-election he\u2019ll have to focus outside the population centers in the district \u2013 Las Cruces and Roswell \u2013 but also said Las Cruces is very important to the race because it has nearly a third of the district\u2019s voters.<\/p>\n<p>He said \u201chard\u201d campaigning will begin in March or April.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut the first thing we\u2019re going to do is represent the people,\u201d Teague said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Harry Teague, D-N.M., had little to say today about his looming election battle against former Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, saying he\u2019s more focused on doing his job.<\/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-12748","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\/12748","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=12748"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12748\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}