{"id":2997,"date":"2008-03-17T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-17T21:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/kissling-undecided-on-whether-to-keep-going\/"},"modified":"2008-03-17T15:51:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-17T21:51:00","slug":"kissling-undecided-on-whether-to-keep-going","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/03\/kissling-undecided-on-whether-to-keep-going\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissling undecided on whether to keep going"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R97n52amehI\/AAAAAAAAFQw\/EhVepV_2QT8\/s1600-h\/Kissling,+Al.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/R97n52amehI\/AAAAAAAAFQw\/EhVepV_2QT8\/s200\/Kissling,+Al.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5178831602568296978\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kisslingforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Al Kissling<\/a> said today he hasn\u2019t decided whether to try to gather the signatures necessary to stay in the race to replace <a href=\"http:\/\/pearce.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a> in Congress.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cAt this point, we\u2019re still doing thinking and reflection, OK? No comment,\u201d Kissling said in a brief phone interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kissling won 13 percent of delegates at Saturday\u2019s Democratic preprimary nominating convention, while <a href=\"http:\/\/www.billmccamley.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill McCamley<\/a> won 49 percent and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harryteagueforcongress08.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Teague<\/a> won 36 percent. Candidates had to secure at least 20 percent to win a spot on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">To stay in the race at this point, Kissling would have to submit the signatures of 1,184 registered Democrats living in the Second Congressional District. He already submitted at least half that number when he filed to run in February.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kissling was the only Democrat who ran for the seat in 2006, and he secured just over 40 percent of the vote against Pearce in the general election. Kissling and McCamley are both from <st1:city st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:city>, so his departure from the race would likely help McCamley, while he and McCamley would split the <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> vote if he stayed in the race, which would probably help Teague.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Kissling said today he hasn\u2019t decided whether to try to gather the signatures necessary to stay in the race to replace Steve Pearce in Congress. \u201cAt this point, we\u2019re still doing thinking and reflection, OK? No comment,\u201d Kissling said in a brief phone interview. Kissling won 13 percent of delegates at Saturday\u2019s Democratic preprimary [&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-2997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997","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=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}