{"id":3202,"date":"2008-05-09T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-09T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/new-wilson-ad-hits-pearce-on-cannon-lab-funding\/"},"modified":"2008-05-09T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-09T18:35:00","slug":"new-wilson-ad-hits-pearce-on-cannon-lab-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/new-wilson-ad-hits-pearce-on-cannon-lab-funding\/","title":{"rendered":"New Wilson ad hits Pearce on Cannon, lab funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherforsenate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson\u2019s<\/a> newest TV ad, which she unveiled today, attacks Senate primary opponent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleforpearce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a> on familiar issues while also trying to align her with retiring Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/domenici.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Domenici<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Here\u2019s the ad:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><object width=\"420\" height=\"351\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/E_GkKEueeyM&amp;hl=en\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/E_GkKEueeyM&amp;hl=en\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"420\" height=\"351\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The ad again highlights Pearce\u2019s votes to mothball Cannon Air Force base and cut funding for national labs. When talking about the Cannon vote, the ad shows images of Pearce, Wilson and Domenici. It says Pearce \u201cstood alone\u201d in voting to mothball Cannon while the images of Wilson and Domenici vanish.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Pearce\u2019s campaign manager, John Billingsley, said in a news release that the ad is \u201cdisappointing\u201d because it\u2019s negative and misleading. Both candidates have been running negative ads while complaining about their opponent\u2019s attacks for several weeks. Billingsley said <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:City>\u2019s new ad is \u201cfactually untrue\u201d and said it was Pearce whose vote protected Cannon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI know it\u2019s the political silly season, but this just makes you shake your head,\u201d he said. \u201cThe notion that Steve, a former Air Force pilot who flew missions in <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Vietnam<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, would be unsupportive of our military bases would be laughable if it weren\u2019t so outrageous. Heather Wilson is losing and her desperation can be seen in these attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Heather Wilson\u2019s newest TV ad, which she unveiled today, attacks Senate primary opponent Steve Pearce on familiar issues while also trying to align her with retiring Sen. Pete Domenici. Here\u2019s the ad: The ad again highlights Pearce\u2019s votes to mothball Cannon Air Force base and cut funding for national labs. When talking about the [&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-3202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202","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=3202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}