{"id":3160,"date":"2008-04-29T16:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-29T22:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/pearce-and-wilson-announce-new-endorsements\/"},"modified":"2008-04-29T16:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-29T22:29:00","slug":"pearce-and-wilson-announce-new-endorsements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/pearce-and-wilson-announce-new-endorsements\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearce and Wilson announce new endorsements"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Steve Pearce<\/a> and Heather Wilson<\/a> have both gained high-profile endorsements in the last few days as they jockey for position in the GOP U.S. Senate primary. <\/p>\n

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Wilson<\/st1:city> has picked up the endorsements of Episcopal Rev. Canon Albert Tarbell of Albuquerque<\/st1:city> and U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard<\/a>, R-Colo. Allard is the first U.S.<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> senator to endorse a candidate in the New Mexico Senate primary.<\/p>\n

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\u201cNew Mexico Republicans should nominate a candidate in June who\u2019ll be able to defeat the Democrats and hold Senator Pete Domenici\u2019s seat come January,\u201d Allard said in a news release from the Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> campaign. \u201cControl of the U.S. Senate is hanging on just a handful of races around the country, and this New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> race is one of them. I\u2019m proud to endorse Heather Wilson because she is a commonsense conservative who can win in November.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Tarbell called Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> \u201cexperienced and bright\u201d and said he is proud to endorse her.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI believe Heather is a person of strong faith and values,\u201d he said in a release. \u201cShe has represented her district well and I believe she will make a fantastic United States<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> senator.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Pearce, meanwhile, picked up the endorsements of the Albuquerque Police Officer\u2019s Association<\/a> and the Campaign for Working Families<\/a>. The association\u2019s endorsement is significant in part because it comes from the state\u2019s largest city, which Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> has represented in Congress for years.<\/p>\n

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\u201cSteve Pearce possesses the knowledge, experience and, most importantly, the dedication to represent us in Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>,\u201d Benjamin Baker, vice president of the association, said in a news release from the Pearce campaign.<\/p>\n

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Pearce said he was honored to receive the endorsement of the Campaign for Working Families.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI am pleased to see Americans who support pro-family, pro-life and pro-growth policies are continuing to speak out in favor of my candidacy for U.S. Senate,\u201d he said in a release. \u201cFamily budgets continue to feel the pressure from high gas and food prices. I am proud to stand up for the things that will give working families the opportunity to provide for their loved ones and establish a higher quality of life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Steve Pearce and Heather Wilson have both gained high-profile endorsements in the last few days as they jockey for position in the GOP U.S. Senate primary. Wilson has picked up the endorsements of Episcopal Rev. Canon Albert Tarbell of Albuquerque and U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo. Allard is the first U.S. senator to endorse a […]<\/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-3160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160","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=3160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}