{"id":2973,"date":"2008-03-13T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/senate-minority-leader-endorses-wilson\/"},"modified":"2008-03-13T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-13T21:51:00","slug":"senate-minority-leader-endorses-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/senate-minority-leader-endorses-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate minority leader endorses Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R9miDGameII\/AAAAAAAAFNo\/gAbZ99RIClg\/s1600-h\/Ingle,+Stuart.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R9miDGameII\/AAAAAAAAFNo\/gAbZ99RIClg\/s200\/Ingle,+Stuart.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177347420784588930\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherforsenate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a> picked up a key endorsement from the top-ranking Republican in the state Senate today.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=266\" target=\"_blank\">Stuart Ingle<\/a>, R-Portales and the Senate minority leader, called Wilson \u201ca steady, commonsense leader who continues to fight for lower taxes, private industry, a strong national defense and our families\u201d in an e-mail the Wilson campaign sent to supporters today.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R9miDmameJI\/AAAAAAAAFNw\/q-56wPeczoQ\/s1600-h\/Wilson,+Heather.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R9miDmameJI\/AAAAAAAAFNw\/q-56wPeczoQ\/s200\/Wilson,+Heather.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5177347429374523538\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\u201cHeather Wilson is the kind of person who leads by digging in on important issues and getting things done,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ingle referenced <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s work to save Cannon Air Force base, even though it isn\u2019t located in the First Congressional District she represents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWhether it\u2019s our bases or labs, our children or small businesses, Heather Wilson stands up and fights for the contribution <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> makes to our nation,\u201d Ingle said. \u201cShe is a commonsense conservative that I believe will win in November and I\u2019m proud to be supporting her in this race for the United States Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The endorsement comes two days before Republicans will gather in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> on Saturday for their preprimary nominating convention, and Wilson and her opponent in the Republican U.S. Senate primary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleforpearce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a>, are working to solidify support.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Pearce announced today that Teresita Gonzalez of Mesilla will officially nominate him at Saturday\u2019s convention. Gonzales, a local activist, introduced Pearce in Mesilla when he announced his campaign there several months ago. She is a former Ms. New <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> who is a lifelong Republican.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI am proud and honored to be officially nominated by Teresita Gonzalez,\u201d Pearce said in a release. \u201cShe is a testament that the American dream is alive and well in this country.  We are good friends, and I appreciate her support.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heather Wilson picked up a key endorsement from the top-ranking Republican in the state Senate today. Stuart Ingle, R-Portales and the Senate minority leader, called Wilson \u201ca steady, commonsense leader who continues to fight for lower taxes, private industry, a strong national defense and our families\u201d in an e-mail the Wilson campaign sent to supporters [&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-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","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=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}