{"id":3397,"date":"2008-06-24T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T20:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/06\/new-udall-ad-says-he-has-fought-for-cannon-and-lanl\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T14:57:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T20:57:00","slug":"new-udall-ad-says-he-has-fought-for-cannon-and-lanl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/06\/new-udall-ad-says-he-has-fought-for-cannon-and-lanl\/","title":{"rendered":"New Udall ad says he has fought for Cannon and LANL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Democratic U.S. Senate candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomudall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Udall<\/a> will begin airing a new television ad on Wednesday highlighting his work for Cannon Air Force Base and Los Alamos National Laboratory.<\/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=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JbvWQba-BFs\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/JbvWQba-BFs\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" wmode=\"transparent\" width=\"420\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The ad will be controversial because Udall has been attacked for supporting cuts last year at the lab. Udall has said the labs need to shift their focus from nuclear weapons to energy independence and global warming, and his vote was an attempt to push the lab in that direction. He said that will ensure the future sustainability of the lab.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Udall says in the ad that he \u201cvoted for funding to expand the mission of <st1:place st=\"on\">Los Alamos<\/st1:place> to create new jobs in counter-terrorism and energy research.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cTom Udall has fought to protect <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>\u2019s economy, job base and families,\u201d campaign manager Amanda Cooper said in a news release. \u201cHe successfully defended Cannon Air Force Base when the BRAC Commission targeted it for closure. And Tom Udall has fought tirelessly for the future of LANL by working with the lab to encourage growth in new areas of research such as nuclear nonproliferation, homeland security, counter terrorism and intelligence analysis to ensure their long-term viability and to move towards the future.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You can find the Udall campaign\u2019s fact sheet on the new ad by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomudall.com\/desert\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tom Udall will begin airing a new television ad on Wednesday highlighting his work for Cannon Air Force Base and Los Alamos National Laboratory. Here\u2019s the ad: The ad will be controversial because Udall has been attacked for supporting cuts last year at the lab. Udall has said the labs need [&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-3397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397","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=3397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3397\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}