{"id":2651,"date":"2007-12-18T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-18T17:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/12\/lehrman-seeks-to-distinguish-himself-from-udall\/"},"modified":"2007-12-18T11:51:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-18T17:51:00","slug":"lehrman-seeks-to-distinguish-himself-from-udall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/12\/lehrman-seeks-to-distinguish-himself-from-udall\/","title":{"rendered":"Lehrman seeks to distinguish himself from Udall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R2gI0MTQ6wI\/AAAAAAAAEQI\/ouxDtpbUCHI\/s1600-h\/Lehrman,+Leland.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R2gI0MTQ6wI\/AAAAAAAAEQI\/ouxDtpbUCHI\/s200\/Lehrman,+Leland.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5145372267019037442\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In an attempt to drum up support for his longshot bid for U.S. Senate, Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mothermedia.org\/2008platform.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Leland Lehrman<\/a> plans to hold a news conference on Wednesday to contrast his views with those of Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.udallforusall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Udall<\/a>, the frontrunner in the race.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lehrman\u2019s news conference will begin at noon and will be held in the rotunda at the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;time=&amp;date=&amp;ttype=&amp;q=490+old+santa+fe+trail,+santa+fe&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=37.410045,61.171875&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=35.682468,-105.938179&amp;spn=0.009377,0.014935&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=addr&amp;om=1\" target=\"_blank\">Roundhouse<\/a> in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Santa Fe<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cAt the conference, the candidate will discuss the concerns that the Democratic Party grassroots has about Tom Udall on impeachment, his relationship with Senator <a href=\"http:\/\/schumer.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Charles Schumer<\/a> and his leadership qualities in general,\u201d a release from Lehrman\u2019s campaign states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Udall doesn\u2019t currently support impeaching the president and vice president. Impeachment is one of the cornerstones of Lehrman\u2019s campaign. Schumer heads the fundraising arm of Senate Democrats and worked hard to get Udall to enter the Senate race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The release also states that Lehrman will discuss an \u201canalysis of recent campaign contributions\u201d that raises concerns that oil and gas companies \u201cmay be interested in preventing (Udall) from taking a strong stand against drilling in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Santa Fe<\/st1:placename>  <st1:placetype st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lehrman won\u2019t only go on the offensive against Udall. He also plans to release his \u201cpositive change platform\u201d at the news conference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cIntegrity, energy, peace will be the watchwords of the campaign, at least in this early stage,\u201d the release states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an attempt to drum up support for his longshot bid for U.S. Senate, Democrat Leland Lehrman plans to hold a news conference on Wednesday to contrast his views with those of Rep. Tom Udall, the frontrunner in the race. Lehrman\u2019s news conference will begin at noon and will be held in the rotunda at [&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-2651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651","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=2651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}