{"id":3211,"date":"2008-05-12T14:14:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-12T20:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/endorsements-continue-for-pearce-wilson\/"},"modified":"2008-05-12T14:14:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-12T20:14:00","slug":"endorsements-continue-for-pearce-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/endorsements-continue-for-pearce-wilson\/","title":{"rendered":"Endorsements continue for Pearce, Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SCileYyZuKI\/AAAAAAAAFss\/yDKaA-cppAU\/s1600-h\/Pearce,+Steve.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SCileYyZuKI\/AAAAAAAAFss\/yDKaA-cppAU\/s200\/Pearce,+Steve.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199587711267748002\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Republican U.S. Senate candidates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleforpearce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherforsenate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a> split newspaper endorsements over the weekend, while <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> also picked up the backing of several elected officials.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/opinion\/editorials\/1193547e-end_federal05-11-08.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a> on Sunday endorsed <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, saying the fact that she\u2019s \u201ca thoughtful representative, not a lock-step partisan,\u201d is important. Pearce, meanwhile, earned on Friday the endorsement of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lamonitor.com\/cgi-bin\/storyviewnew.cgi?075+OpinionEditorial.200857-1433-075-075007.Lead+OpinionEditorial\" target=\"_blank\">Los Alamos Monitor<\/a>, saying he \u201cstands on principles and beliefs \u2013 even if it might hurt some in his district. If no one in government is willing to stand up and say no to this project or that project, nothing will ever be cut and the federal deficit will continue to grow and grow and our debt will be worse and worse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SCile4yZuLI\/AAAAAAAAFs0\/5xuzZF6ld6E\/s1600-h\/Wilson,+Heather.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SCile4yZuLI\/AAAAAAAAFs0\/5xuzZF6ld6E\/s200\/Wilson,+Heather.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199587719857682610\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Meanwhile, the public officials endorsing <st1:city st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:city> in the last few days include state Sens. <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=253&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Boitano<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=289&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">H. Diane Snyder<\/a> and Reps. <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=315&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Justine Fox-Young<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=306&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Kathy McCoy<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=247&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Eric Youngberg<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=248&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Teresa Zanetti<\/a>, all from <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Bernalillo<\/st1:placename>  <st1:placetype st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>. So did Union County Commission Chairman Richard Arguello.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI\u2019m thankful for their support and pleased that this campaign has attracted so many different people with different viewpoints \u2013 many people who agree we need to nominate a commonsense conservative who can win in November,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said in the news release announcing the legislative endorsements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican U.S. Senate candidates Steve Pearce and Heather Wilson split newspaper endorsements over the weekend, while Wilson also picked up the backing of several elected officials. The Albuquerque Journal on Sunday endorsed Wilson, saying the fact that she\u2019s \u201ca thoughtful representative, not a lock-step partisan,\u201d is important. Pearce, meanwhile, earned on Friday the endorsement of [&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-3211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211","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=3211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}