{"id":3201,"date":"2008-05-09T11:05:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T17:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/more-negative-ads-hit-the-airwaves-in-senate-race\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T11:05:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T17:05:00","slug":"more-negative-ads-hit-the-airwaves-in-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/more-negative-ads-hit-the-airwaves-in-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"More negative ads hit the airwaves in Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Club for Growth<\/a>, which has endorsed Steve Pearce<\/a> in the GOP U.S. Senate primary, unveiled a new TV ad today attacking his primary opponent Heather Wilson<\/a> for her vote last year on a children\u2019s health insurance program.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, the liberal Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund<\/a> began running a new TV ad on Thursday attacking both GOP candidates as part of its continued campaign to help elect Democrat Tom Udall<\/a> to the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n

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The Club for Growth, according to a news release<\/a>, is spending $200,000 to air its ad on broadcast and cable television throughout the state. Here\u2019s the ad:<\/p>\n

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It attacks Wilson for supporting the SCHIP<\/a> bill in the U.S. House last year, which the group characterized in its ad as \u201cone of the largest tax hikes, welfare expansions and government-run health care plans in history.\u201d<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s an issue that Wilson and Pearce, who opposed the bill in the House, have often fought about on the campaign trail. Click here<\/a> for the history on Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>\u2019s support of SCHIP. For full disclosure, someone who now works for Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>\u2019s campaign wrote the column to which that link leads.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, here\u2019s the Defenders ad, which is part of the group\u2019s Two Bad for New Mexico<\/a> campaign:<\/p>\n

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The ad attacks Wilson<\/st1:City> for her role in the U.S. Attorney scandal<\/a> and Pearce for allegations that landed him on one Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> group\u2019s list of the most corrupt members of Congress<\/a>. It also attacks both for alleged anti-conservation votes.<\/p>\n

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The ad is running statewide, according to a news release<\/a> from the group, but the size of the buy wasn\u2019t disclosed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Club for Growth, which has endorsed Steve Pearce in the GOP U.S. Senate primary, unveiled a new TV ad today attacking his primary opponent Heather Wilson for her vote last year on a children\u2019s health insurance program. Meanwhile, the liberal Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund began running a new TV ad on Thursday attacking […]<\/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-3201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201","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=3201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3201\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}