{"id":2141,"date":"2007-08-23T08:11:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T14:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/08\/another-democrat-to-fight-for-right-to-battle-wilson\/"},"modified":"2007-08-23T08:11:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T14:11:00","slug":"another-democrat-to-fight-for-right-to-battle-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/08\/another-democrat-to-fight-for-right-to-battle-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Democrat to fight for right to battle Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Another Democrat has entered the race to take on U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/wilson.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a>, R-N.M., next year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.call4democracy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Call<\/a> is more liberal than the frontrunner in the race, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinheinrich.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Heinrich<\/a>, and the other Democrats, Bryon Paez and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonadamsforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Adams<\/a>. He states on his Web site that he\u2019s running \u201cbecause I think I can do a better job for the people of <st1:state st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:state> and the <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">United States<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> than either the current officeholder, Heather Wilson (R), or any of the other candidates. \u2026 The American people deserve a change from the pandering, corporate-owned politicians who squander tax dollars on this illegal, immoral, and unjust occupation of a sovereign nation, while refusing to provide even the most basic of human needs, adequate healthcare, to the taxpayers.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Call is a high-school math teacher in <st1:city st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:city> who states on his site that he \u201cbecame active in the antiwar movement during my second year in college when Bush 41 invaded <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>.\u201d He states that he is a member of a number of \u201cprogressive activist causes\u201d including the Green Party, though he\u2019s running as a Democrat for Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Call says he won\u2019t take any corporate, political action committee or union money and won\u2019t accept individual contributions of greater than $100.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWhy would I make such a commitment? Because I am here to serve, and I cannot serve if I owe large contributors &#8211; and this is exactly why our current leadership does not serve you,\u201d he states on his site.<\/p>\n<p>Call is married and has two children.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another Democrat has entered the race to take on U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., next year. Jason Call is more liberal than the frontrunner in the race, Martin Heinrich, and the other Democrats, Bryon Paez and Jon Adams. He states on his Web site that he\u2019s running \u201cbecause I think I can do a better [&hellip;]<\/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-2141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141","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=2141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}