{"id":3220,"date":"2008-05-13T15:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/wilson-ad-attacks-pearces-special-interest-support\/"},"modified":"2008-05-13T15:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-13T21:45:00","slug":"wilson-ad-attacks-pearces-special-interest-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/wilson-ad-attacks-pearces-special-interest-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson ad attacks Pearce&#8217;s special-interest support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SCoMTYyZuVI\/AAAAAAAAFuE\/2tBEn5g9xRs\/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\/SCoMTYyZuVI\/AAAAAAAAFuE\/2tBEn5g9xRs\/s200\/Wilson,+Heather.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199982246963558738\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In response to conservative groups\u2019 support of her primary opponent, Republican U.S. Senate candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heatherforsenate.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a> unveiled a new radio ad today attacking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleforpearce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a> for selling out New Mexicans to get money from special-interest groups.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cIt\u2019s a question of priorities: Vote to protect <st1:state st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:state> and <st1:country-region st=\"on\">America<\/st1:country-region> or side with a <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New York City<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> special-interest group to get their money,\u201d the ad\u2019s narrator states. \u201cSteve Pearce voted against <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. And now his special-interest friends are spending hundreds of thousands of dollars attacking Heather Wilson.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I assume <st1:city st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:city>\u2019s radio ad is referring to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clubforgrowth.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Club for Growth<\/a>, which has endorsed Pearce and is spending $200,000 to run <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/more-negative-ads-hit-airwaves-in.html\">television ads<\/a> in <st1:state st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:state> attacking <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SCoMT4yZuWI\/AAAAAAAAFuM\/FvpQKxiM67Q\/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\/SCoMT4yZuWI\/AAAAAAAAFuM\/FvpQKxiM67Q\/s200\/Pearce,+Steve.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5199982255553493346\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The radio ad\u2019s narrator says Pearce \u201cputs his interests ahead of <st1:state st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:state>\u2019s,\u201d while <st1:city st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:city> has voted in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>\u2019s best interest \u201cevery time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cSteve Pearce has shown that he will vote for special-interest scorecards over the people of <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New   Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. His campaign is benefiting greatly from it,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s campaign manger, Chris Collins, said in a news release. \u201c<st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New   Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>\u2019s current Republican senator didn\u2019t vote against our labs, our bases or our border, but if these special-interest groups get their way, the next one will.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The ad, which you can hear by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haussamen.com\/WilsonRadioAd.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, is running statewide beginning today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In response to conservative groups\u2019 support of her primary opponent, Republican U.S. Senate candidate Heather Wilson unveiled a new radio ad today attacking Steve Pearce for selling out New Mexicans to get money from special-interest groups. \u201cIt\u2019s a question of priorities: Vote to protect New Mexico and America or side with a New York City [&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-3220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220","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=3220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}