{"id":20675,"date":"2010-08-19T10:48:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-19T16:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=20675"},"modified":"2010-08-19T10:48:20","modified_gmt":"2010-08-19T16:48:20","slug":"pearce-ups-challenge-to-18-debates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/08\/pearce-ups-challenge-to-18-debates\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearce ups challenge to 18 debates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14840\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14840 \" title=\"Pearce, Steve\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Pearce-Steve.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Pearce (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>With U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harryforcongress.com\/\">Harry Teague<\/a> not directly answering <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleforpearce.com\/\">Steve Pearce\u2019s<\/a> challenge to 10 \u201ctown-hall style\u201d debates across the district, and instead accusing him of ignoring some counties, Pearce has upped his challenge to 18 debates \u2013 one in each county in the 2nd Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince they like talking about 18 counties, Steve is happy to debate Teague in all 18 counties,\u201d Pearce spokesman Jason Heffley said. \u201cWill they accept? Or will Teague continue to prefer to hide behind staff or in private settings? The question remains \u2013 will he agree to debating in 8 or 18 counties?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The campaigns are already discussing with media outlets having 2-3 formal debates, the Pearce campaign has said. On Wednesday, Pearce, the Republican in the race, issued an additional challenge to Teague, the Democrat, to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/08\/pearce-challenges-teague-to-10-debates\/\">debate him 10 times<\/a> in at least eight counties across the district in \u201ctown-hall style\u201d formats.<\/p>\n<p>The response from Teague\u2019s campaign manager was that there \u201cwill be debates,\u201d but he didn\u2019t directly answer Pearce\u2019s challenge. Instead, he pointed out that Pearce has ducked debates in past elections and said \u201cthe real news\u201d is that Pearce\u2019s \u201cdebate dodging days are possibly over.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And he asked, since Pearce wants debates in eight counties, which of the district\u2019s 18 counties Pearce thinks should be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve asked the Teague campaign for a response to the new challenge from the Pearce campaign. I\u2019ll let you know how Teague responds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With U.S. Rep. Harry Teague not directly answering Steve Pearce\u2019s challenge to 10 \u201ctown-hall style\u201d debates across the district, and instead accusing him of ignoring some counties, Pearce has upped his challenge to 18 debates \u2013 one in each county in the 2nd Congressional District.<\/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":[108,116],"class_list":["post-20675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20675","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=20675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}