{"id":3367,"date":"2008-06-09T14:18:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-09T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/06\/electing-heinrich-a-top-priority-for-house-democrats\/"},"modified":"2008-06-09T14:18:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-09T20:18:00","slug":"electing-heinrich-a-top-priority-for-house-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/06\/electing-heinrich-a-top-priority-for-house-democrats\/","title":{"rendered":"Electing Heinrich a top priority for House Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SE2QfDGwW0I\/AAAAAAAAGAY\/b-N9CJ0ROSc\/s1600-h\/Heinrich,+Martin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SE2QfDGwW0I\/AAAAAAAAGAY\/b-N9CJ0ROSc\/s200\/Heinrich,+Martin.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5209979207021517634\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The fundraising group for Democrats in the U.S. House today made electing <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>\u2019s 1st Congressional District Democratic candidate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinheinrich.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Heinrich<\/a>, a top priority.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Heinrich was added to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dccc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee\u2019s<\/a> Red to Blue program following his \u201cdecisive victory in Tuesday\u2019s Democratic primary,\u201d according to a news release from the DCCC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Heinrich is one of 12 candidates in the program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cMartin Heinrich is a strong and principled leader committed to change. Martin has a proven record of raising the minimum wage, creating good jobs, cracking down on crime and protecting New Mexico\u2019s environment,\u201d DCCC Chairman Chris Van Hollen said in a news release. \u201cThe Red to Blue Program will give Martin the financial and structural edge to be even more competitive.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Candidates in the program are given financial support and help with communications, research and strategy. In 2004, the program raised $7.5 million for 27 candidates across the nation. In 2006, it raised $22.6 million for 56 candidates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Heinrich faces Republican <a href=\"http:\/\/www.darrenwhiteforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Darren White<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fundraising group for Democrats in the U.S. House today made electing New Mexico\u2019s 1st Congressional District Democratic candidate, Martin Heinrich, a top priority. Heinrich was added to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee\u2019s Red to Blue program following his \u201cdecisive victory in Tuesday\u2019s Democratic primary,\u201d according to a news release from the DCCC. Heinrich is [&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-3367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367","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=3367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}