{"id":3161,"date":"2008-04-30T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-30T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/new-pearce-tv-ad-calls-wilson-a-liberal\/"},"modified":"2008-04-30T08:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-30T14:02:00","slug":"new-pearce-tv-ad-calls-wilson-a-liberal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/new-pearce-tv-ad-calls-wilson-a-liberal\/","title":{"rendered":"New Pearce TV ad calls Wilson a liberal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Pearce<\/a> has begun airing a new television ad calling his primary opponent a liberal \u2013 a continuation of the attacks between the two candidates even as the ad also complains about his opponent\u2019s negative attacks.<\/p>\n

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Heather Wilson<\/a> is doing the same thing in her current TV ad<\/a> \u2013 complaining about Pearce\u2019s negative attacks and then attacking him.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s Pearce\u2019s new ad:<\/p>\n

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The first 25 seconds of the 30-second spot continue Pearce\u2019s recent attack on the fact that Wilson missed 22 U.S. House votes recently because she was in New Mexico campaigning. This ad says she missed votes \u201cjust to film negative campaign ads.\u201d In the background of the ad is someone calling out \u201cHeather Wilson\u201d and someone else responding with \u201cabsent\u201d several times to emphasize the point.<\/p>\n

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The last five seconds sort of randomly insert the line, \u201cHeather Wilson. Liberal values, liberal votes.\u201d Then the ad ends with another exchange of \u201cHeather Wilson,\u201d \u201cAbsent.\u201d<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s nothing in the ad to back up the claim that Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is a liberal, unless Pearce is claiming that missing votes is a liberal value.<\/p>\n

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Update, May 1, 8:55 a.m.<\/p>\n

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Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> spokeswoman Whitney Cheshire described Pearce\u2019s new ad as \u201cfalse.\u201d Specifically, she said Pearce knows that Wilson<\/st1:city> was not filming a campaign ad while she was in New Mexico<\/st1:state> because he asked her about it at last week\u2019s debate in Los Alamos<\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe told him she did not film commercials and that she had been in Los Alamos,\u201d Cheshire<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said. \u201cThe footage in our campaign ad that he is referencing is from 2006. The key statement in Pearce\u2019s ad is false. More troubling than the mistake is that Steve Pearce approved an ad that he knew was untrue.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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