{"id":26307,"date":"2011-02-18T15:41:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-18T22:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=26307"},"modified":"2011-02-18T15:41:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T22:41:46","slug":"pearce-will-%e2%80%98look-at%e2%80%99-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/02\/pearce-will-%e2%80%98look-at%e2%80%99-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearce will \u2018look at\u2019 Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_14840\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-14840 \" title=\"Pearce, Steve\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Pearce-Steve.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A source close to U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/pearce.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a>, R-N.M., has already <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/02\/bingaman-to-retire-washington-post-reports\/\" target=\"_blank\">told NMPolitics.net<\/a> that the congressman will \u201ctake a serious look\u201d at running for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/bingaman.senate.gov\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Bingaman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Now Pearce is on the record. He was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0211\/49840.html#ixzz1ELvqhxf9\" target=\"_blank\">quoted by Politico<\/a> as saying that it\u2019s too soon to consider a race but, \u201cobviously, it\u2019s a calculation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe served well and honorably, and so let\u2019s just take a day or two here and kind of relish the fact that we\u2019ve had someone who would dedicate that kind of years of service to New Mexico,\u201d Pearce was quoted by Politico as saying. \u201cWhen we go home, we\u2019ll sit down with staff and look at it. But we\u2019re not in any rush.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politico is quoting U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., as saying he\u2019s not in any rush to make a decision but will \u201clook at\u201d running for the Senate seat being vacated by Democrat Jeff Bingaman.<\/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":[156,116],"class_list":["post-26307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2012-election","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26307","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=26307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}