{"id":2010,"date":"2007-07-24T11:10:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-24T17:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/07\/richardson-ad-focuses-on-guard-families-veterans\/"},"modified":"2007-07-24T11:10:00","modified_gmt":"2007-07-24T17:10:00","slug":"richardson-ad-focuses-on-guard-families-veterans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/07\/richardson-ad-focuses-on-guard-families-veterans\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson ad focuses on Guard families, veterans"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> new television advertisement, now airing in Iowa<\/st1:state> and New Hampshire<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, is certain to get the attention of soldiers and their families. <\/p>\n

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The 30-second ad, released Monday, is airing in Iowa<\/st1:state> and New Hampshire<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. <\/p>\n

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\u201cWhen a National Guard soldier would fall in combat, the family was only getting $12,000 \u2013 a national disgrace,\u201d the ad\u2019s narrator says. \u201cBill Richardson passed the first law in the nation giving National Guard soldiers $400,000 in life insurance. Eighteen states followed his lead.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The ad also promotes Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s proposal to create a \u201chero\u2019s health card\u201d for veterans, which will allow them to receive health care at any facility instead of only at veteran\u2019s facilities.<\/p>\n

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Both are issues Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> has talked about frequently on the campaign trail. In 2005, New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> became the first state to pay $250,000 for life insurance for guard members. The amount was later raised to $400,000.<\/p>\n

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The new ad follows a controversy earlier this year about Richardson\u2019s claim that the idea for the state insurance benefit came after he learned from the mother of a killed soldier how little the federal government was paying.<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said the woman approached him at her son\u2019s funeral and thanked him for her son\u2019s death benefit check. The woman said Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> was lying and demanded that he stop telling the story, which he did.<\/p>\n

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The ad is an effective way, on an important issue, to rebound from controversy. It continues the effective advertising being produced to promote Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n

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To learn more about the ad, click here<\/a>. Here it is:<\/p>\n

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Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s new television advertisement, now airing in Iowa and New Hampshire, is certain to get the attention of soldiers and their families. The 30-second ad, released Monday, is airing in Iowa and New Hampshire. \u201cWhen a National Guard soldier would fall in combat, the family was only getting $12,000 \u2013 a national disgrace,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","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=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}