{"id":2639,"date":"2007-12-13T15:25:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-13T21:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/12\/heinrich-secures-first-union-endorsement-in-race\/"},"modified":"2007-12-13T15:25:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-13T21:25:00","slug":"heinrich-secures-first-union-endorsement-in-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/12\/heinrich-secures-first-union-endorsement-in-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Heinrich secures first union endorsement in race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R2GjfLF28II\/AAAAAAAAEOg\/Uk4tVgXE9zk\/s1600-h\/Heinrich,+Martin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R2GjfLF28II\/AAAAAAAAEOg\/Uk4tVgXE9zk\/s200\/Heinrich,+Martin.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5143572005382451330\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinheinrich.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Heinrich<\/a> has won the first union endorsement of the 2008 race to replace <a href=\"http:\/\/wilson.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a> in Congress.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1563 informed Heinrich in a letter last week that its board members voted unanimously to endorse him. The union represents thousands of grocery, retail and food-industry employees in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:state st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> and is headquartered in the First Congressional District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cMartin is honored to have the support of hardworking members of the UFCW,\u201d a statement posted on his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinheinrich.com\/node\/316\" target=\"_blank\">campaign blog<\/a> read.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In the letter, the union\u2019s president wrote that Heinrich\u2019s \u201cleadership in the successful effort to secure a living wage for the citizens of <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is not forgotten and our members appreciate your efforts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThere is much work to be done in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> and we firmly believe that you are the right person for the job,\u201d the letter states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">On the Democratic side, Heinrich is joined in the race by attorney <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jonadamsforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jon Adams<\/a>, teacher <a href=\"http:\/\/www.call4democracy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Call<\/a> and former state Health Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michellelujangrishamforcongress.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Lujan Grisham<\/a>. Republicans running are state Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.senatorcarraro.com\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">Joe Carraro<\/a> and Bernalillo County Sheriff <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenwhiteforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darren White<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Heinrich has won the first union endorsement of the 2008 race to replace Heather Wilson in Congress. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 1563 informed Heinrich in a letter last week that its board members voted unanimously to endorse him. The union represents thousands of grocery, retail and food-industry employees in New [&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-2639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639","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=2639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}