{"id":2574,"date":"2007-11-28T15:32:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T21:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/11\/udall-to-announce-thursday-in-abq-friday-in-cruces\/"},"modified":"2007-11-28T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2007-11-28T21:32:00","slug":"udall-to-announce-thursday-in-abq-friday-in-cruces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/11\/udall-to-announce-thursday-in-abq-friday-in-cruces\/","title":{"rendered":"Udall to announce Thursday in ABQ, Friday in Cruces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R03eljgtiNI\/AAAAAAAAEFY\/_PakT3O4MeQ\/s1600-h\/Udall,+Tom.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R03eljgtiNI\/AAAAAAAAEFY\/_PakT3O4MeQ\/s200\/Udall,+Tom.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5138007486668572882\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.udallforusall.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Udall<\/a>, D-N.M., will kick off his campaign for the Senate seat being vacated by <a href=\"http:\/\/domenici.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Domenici<\/a> with a formal announcement Thursday in <st1:city st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:city>, and he\u2019ll make a stop in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> Friday morning.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Udall will make the announcement at 11:45 a.m. Thursday at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalhispaniccenter.org\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=49&amp;Itemid=206\" target=\"_blank\">National Hispanic Cultural Center<\/a> in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>, according to a news release from his campaign. He will be at <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;time=&amp;date=&amp;ttype=&amp;q=908+E+Amador+Ave,+las+cruces&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=37.410045,61.171875&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=32.309333,-106.769536&amp;spn=0.009757,0.014935&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;om=1\" target=\"_blank\">Roberto\u2019s Mexican Food<\/a> in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> at 8 a.m. Friday to formally announce his candidacy to voters here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Udall plans other stops in Los Lunas on Thursday, in <st1:placename st=\"on\">Silver<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">City<\/st1:placetype> and <st1:city st=\"on\">Clovis<\/st1:city> on Friday, and in <st1:city st=\"on\">Las  Vegas<\/st1:city>, Mora, <st1:city st=\"on\">Taos<\/st1:city> and <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Santa Fe<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cAs a prosecutor, state attorney general and congressman, I have stood strong for <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:state st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> values,\u201d Udall said in the release. \u201cI am proud to bring my proven record of leadership to the United States Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cNew Mexicans know my record on issues like reducing domestic violence and DUI, improving access to health care and education, protecting our Constitutional freedoms, conserving our natural treasures and ending the misguided war in <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>,\u201d he said. \u201c<st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> deserves a senator who has the courage to do what\u2019s right, and I have the integrity and experience they can trust.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Udall is in his fifth term at the state\u2019s representative of the Third Congressional District in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. Before that, he was the state attorney general for eight years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Udall will face off with Albuquerque Mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martychavez.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Ch\u00e1vez<\/a> and Lamy alternative media publisher and editor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mothermedia.org\/2008platform.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Leland Lehrman<\/a> in the primary. On the Republican side, U.S. Reps. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleforpearce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherforsenate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a> are running for the Senate seat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Tom Udall, D-N.M., will kick off his campaign for the Senate seat being vacated by Pete Domenici with a formal announcement Thursday in Albuquerque, and he\u2019ll make a stop in Las Cruces Friday morning. Udall will make the announcement at 11:45 a.m. Thursday at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, according to [&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-2574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574","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=2574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2574\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}