{"id":3251,"date":"2008-05-20T14:40:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T20:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/wilson-touts-new-endorsements-in-senate-race\/"},"modified":"2008-05-20T14:40:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T20:40:00","slug":"wilson-touts-new-endorsements-in-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/wilson-touts-new-endorsements-in-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson touts new endorsements in Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Republican U.S. Senate candidate Heather Wilson<\/a> has announced new endorsements in recent days that include the Albuquerque<\/st1:city> city council president, the Tijeras mayor and a New York<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> newspaper. <\/p>\n

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Albuquerque<\/st1:city>\u2019s Brad Winter<\/a>, in his endorsement of Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, said she has done \u201can excellent job\u201d as the representative of the 1st Congressional District.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThere\u2019s a reason she gets re-elected every cycle in a Democratic district. Heather Wilson cares about the people and the families she represents,\u201d Winter said in a release from the Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> campaign. \u201cShe doesn\u2019t vote the way special interests tell her to; she votes the way she knows is right.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said she was \u201cvery pleased\u201d to have Winter\u2019s endorsement, saying he has fought to keep city taxes low and government open and honest.<\/p>\n

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In a news release announcing her endorsement, Tijeras Mayor Gloria Chavez said Wilson<\/st1:city> \u201chas worked hard to ensure that small municipalities like the Village<\/st1:placetype> of Tijeras<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> don\u2019t fall through the cracks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cLike Senator Domenici, Heather has been a champion for the needs of rural New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>,\u201d she said. \u201cShe is the best fit to succeed Senator Domenici and will continue to address the needs of rural New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> in the U.S. Senate.\u201d<\/p>\n

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And the New York<\/st1:state> Sun, in its endorsement of Wilson<\/a>, called her \u201cone of our favorite members of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cOur view is that if the Republican Party of 2008 would prefer to lose with Mr. Pearce<\/a> than win with Ms. Wilson, it deserves its fate,\u201d the endorsement states. \u201c\u2026 She has built a reputation for doing her homework. She\u2019s a supporter of a hard-line in the war on terror, is a stickler for command accountability in the military, backs making permanent President Bush\u2019s supply-side tax cuts, has never voted against a free trade agreement, and has emerged as a pro-family leader informed by her experience in this area in state government.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cShe has achieved all this while representing a relatively liberal congressional district and managing to earn respect across a wide swath of the New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> polity,\u201d the endorsement states. \u201cWe would suggest that she\u2019s the natural heir to Senator Domenici save for the fact that it would under-state her potential somewhere down the line on a national ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican U.S. Senate candidate Heather Wilson has announced new endorsements in recent days that include the Albuquerque city council president, the Tijeras mayor and a New York newspaper. Albuquerque\u2019s Brad Winter, in his endorsement of Wilson, said she has done \u201can excellent job\u201d as the representative of the 1st Congressional District. \u201cThere\u2019s a reason she […]<\/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-3251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251","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=3251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3251\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}