{"id":22142,"date":"2010-10-04T11:06:08","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T17:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=22142"},"modified":"2010-10-04T11:06:11","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T17:06:11","slug":"station-gives-pearce-free-air-time-after-teague-declines-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/10\/station-gives-pearce-free-air-time-after-teague-declines-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Station gives Pearce free air time after Teague declines debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_22019\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22019\" title=\"Pearce, Steve\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Pearce-Steve.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Steve Pearce<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Republican 2nd Congressional District candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleforpearce.com\/\">Steve Pearce<\/a> will get 30 minutes of free air time on KOB-TV in Albuquerque after his Democratic opponent, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harryforcongress.com\/\">Harry Teague<\/a>, declined an invitation to debate.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates were invited to debate \u201cwell over a month ago,\u201d KOB\u2019s Tom Joles reported Thursday evening. Week before last, Teague\u2019s campaign said he could not commit \u201cbecause of his very busy debate schedule,\u201d Joles said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo be fair, we are still giving his opponent Steve Pearce a half hour to address the issues,\u201d Joles said, adding that the Teague campaign wrote in an e-mail that, \u201cin the spirit of fairness,\u201d it understands the decision.<\/p>\n<p>The invitation to debate remains open, Joles said. The station plans to air the Pearce segment later this month.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the KOB report. You\u2019ll have to scroll to about 50 seconds in this video to see it:<\/p>\n<p><object id=\"cs_player\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"425\" height=\"330\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/eplayer.clipsyndicate.com\/cs_api\/get_swf\/3\/&amp;pl_id=13637&amp;wpid=1295&amp;page_count=10&amp;tags=default&amp;windows=1&amp;va_id=1728509&amp;show_title=0&amp;auto_start=0&amp;auto_next=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"cs_player\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"330\" src=\"http:\/\/eplayer.clipsyndicate.com\/cs_api\/get_swf\/3\/&amp;pl_id=13637&amp;wpid=1295&amp;page_count=10&amp;tags=default&amp;windows=1&amp;va_id=1728509&amp;show_title=0&amp;auto_start=0&amp;auto_next=0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican 2nd Congressional District candidate Steve Pearce will get 30 minutes of free air time on KOB-TV in Albuquerque after his Democratic opponent, Harry Teague, declined an invitation to debate.<\/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-22142","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\/22142","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=22142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}