{"id":28614,"date":"2011-04-21T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T17:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=28614"},"modified":"2011-04-21T11:33:12","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T17:33:12","slug":"while-others-stay-out-of-senate-primary-some-unions-back-heinrich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/04\/while-others-stay-out-of-senate-primary-some-unions-back-heinrich\/","title":{"rendered":"While others stay out of Senate primary, some unions back Heinrich"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8519\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8519 \" title=\"Heinrich, Martin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Heinrich-Martin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Most sources NMPolitics.net has spoken with expect State Auditor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saonm.org\/about-hector-balderas\" target=\"_blank\">Hector Balderas<\/a> to run for the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by <a href=\"http:\/\/bingaman.senate.gov\">Jeff Bingaman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And though a hotly contested Democratic primary between Balderas and U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinheinrich.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Heinrich<\/a> will keep some, including the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dscc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee<\/a>, from issuing an endorsement, it\u2019s not stopping others.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/afscme.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees<\/a> announced its endorsement of Heinrich today, saying members of AFSCME\u2019s political committee voted unanimously to back him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur members are middle class, hard-working New Mexicans.\u00a0Martin is one of us, and he has gone to bat for regular working people both here in\u00a0New Mexico\u00a0and across the country,\u201d Patty French, the chair of AFSCME\u2019s PAC, said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>AFSCME isn\u2019t the only group that isn\u2019t waiting for Balderas\u2019 decision before deciding to back Heinrich. Last week, the New Mexico International Brotherhood of Teamsters <a href=\"http:\/\/www.democracyfornewmexico.com\/democracy_for_new_mexico\/2011\/04\/nm-teamsters-first-to-endorse-martin-heinrich-for-senate.html\" target=\"_blank\">announced their endorsement<\/a> of Heinrich.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Balderas, who like Heinrich is one of the hottest New Mexico stars in the Democratic Party, is expected to announce his decision <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/04\/balderas%E2%80%99-decision-on-senate-coming-within-days\/\" target=\"_blank\">by April 30<\/a>. Many left-leaning groups would stay out of a primary battle between the two. For example, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee\u2019s chairwoman said last week that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-fix\/post\/afternoon-huntsman-allies-land-south-carolina-operative\/2011\/04\/14\/AFDKGfeD_blog.html\" target=\"_blank\">she won\u2019t endorse in the N.M. Senate primary<\/a>, even though she did endorse in a race in another state.<\/p>\n<p>That makes the union endorsements a big win for Heinrich, who also has a financial advantage over Balderas. Heinrich reported last week that he has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/04\/heinrich-has-the-most-cash-wilson-also-impresses\/\" target=\"_blank\">nearly $350,000 in the bank<\/a>. If Balderas runs, he\u2019ll start with no money because he can\u2019t legally transfer cash from his state auditor account to a federal race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though a hotly contested Democratic Senate primary between State Auditor Hector Balderas and U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich will keep some, including the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, from issuing an endorsement, it\u2019s not stopping others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[156,107,116],"class_list":["post-28614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-roundhouse","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28614","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=28614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}