{"id":21401,"date":"2010-09-09T12:19:37","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T18:19:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=21401"},"modified":"2010-09-09T12:19:41","modified_gmt":"2010-09-09T18:19:41","slug":"national-groups-pitching-in-to-help-martinez-and-denish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/09\/national-groups-pitching-in-to-help-martinez-and-denish\/","title":{"rendered":"National groups pitching in to help Martinez and Denish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_18679\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-18679\" title=\"Martinez, Denish\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/Martinez-Denish1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susana Martinez (left, courtesy photo) and Diane Denish (photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democraticgovernors.org\/\">Democratic Governors Association<\/a> unveiled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=i8ralKjWp7E\">a new TV ad<\/a> today that furthers claims made in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/08\/democratic-group%E2%80%99s-ad-unfairly-attacks-martinez\/\">its last attack ad<\/a> on Republican gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanamartinez2010.com\/\">Susana Martinez<\/a>. Meanwhile, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rga.org\/\">Republican Governors Association<\/a> has donated another $500,000 to Martinez\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n<p>The DGA ads and RGA donation are additional signs that New Mexico\u2019s gubernatorial race between Martinez and Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianedenish.com\/\">Diane Denish<\/a> is one of the hottest in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post blog <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/morning-fix\/-1-2-3-at.html\">The Fix<\/a> is reporting today that the RGA has given $500,000 to Martinez\u2019s campaign \u201cin recent days.\u201d The group had already given Martinez $250,000, so it\u2019s now given Martinez at least $750,000.<\/p>\n<p>The new contribution, according to The Fix, is \u201cthe latest sign that national GOP strategists believe that they have a genuine pickup opportunity in the Land of Enchantment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The DGA knows that as well, but it\u2019s choosing to spend its money on its own rather than giving it to Denish\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Democratic Governors Association unveiled a new TV ad today that furthers claims made in its last attack ad on Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez. Meanwhile, the Republican Governors Association has donated another $500,000 to Martinez\u2019s campaign.<\/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],"class_list":["post-21401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21401","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=21401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}