{"id":2206,"date":"2007-09-07T06:57:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-07T12:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/09\/kissling-to-formally-launch-campaign-on-sunday\/"},"modified":"2007-09-07T06:57:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-07T12:57:00","slug":"kissling-to-formally-launch-campaign-on-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/09\/kissling-to-formally-launch-campaign-on-sunday\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissling to formally launch campaign on Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RuFK4oBJ7JI\/AAAAAAAADT4\/ImGlXI4ThrY\/s1600-h\/Kissling,+Al.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RuFK4oBJ7JI\/AAAAAAAADT4\/ImGlXI4ThrY\/s200\/Kissling,+Al.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5107445789090245778\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Though he has been campaigning and raising money for eight months, Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kisslingforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Al Kissling<\/a> plans to officially kick off his bid to unseat U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pearceforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a>, R-N.M., at an event Sunday in Mesilla.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The event will be held from 2-6 p.m. at Joe Soebbing\u2019s Wild West Museum, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&amp;geocode=&#038;q=3307+McDowell+Road,+Mesilla,+NM&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&#038;sspn=45.957536,73.300781&amp;amp;amp;ie=UTF8&#038;z=16&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;om=1\" target=\"_blank\">3307 McDowell Road<\/a>, according to a news release from the campaign. The news release states that Kissling will be available to discuss issues, and those who attend will also be able to fill out surveys that will help Kissling \u201cbetter know their concerns.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kissling received 40 percent of the vote last year in his unsuccessful bid to unseat Pearce. This year, he faces two primary challengers \u2013 Do\u00f1a Ana County Commissioner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billmccamley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill McCamley<\/a>, who raised 10 times what Kissling raised during the second quarter of the year, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickbolanos4tx23.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rick Bola\u00f1os<\/a>, who ran unsuccessfully for a congressional seat in <st1:state st=\"on\">Texas<\/st1:state> last year and has since moved to <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename>  <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Though Bola\u00f1os says he\u2019s running, he hasn\u2019t appeared at recent Democratic events and many are beginning to wonder whether he is a serious candidate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though he has been campaigning and raising money for eight months, Democrat Al Kissling plans to officially kick off his bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., at an event Sunday in Mesilla. The event will be held from 2-6 p.m. at Joe Soebbing\u2019s Wild West Museum, 3307 McDowell Road, according to a news [&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-2206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206","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=2206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}