{"id":34258,"date":"2011-12-07T12:01:39","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T19:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=34258"},"modified":"2011-12-07T12:02:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-07T19:02:21","slug":"dscc-won%e2%80%99t-endorse-but-its-chair-likes-heinrich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/12\/dscc-won%e2%80%99t-endorse-but-its-chair-likes-heinrich\/","title":{"rendered":"DSCC won\u2019t endorse, but its chair likes Heinrich"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8519\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8519 \" title=\"Heinrich, Martin\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Heinrich-Martin.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"230\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The fundraising arm of Democrats in the U.S. Senate isn\u2019t officially endorsing in the New Mexico primary between <a href=\"http:\/\/www.martinheinrich.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Heinrich<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/hectorbalderas.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hector Balderas<\/a>, but its chairwoman is suggesting that she prefers Heinrich.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2011\/12\/07\/news\/senate-primary-is-a-delicate-dance-for-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOn Tuesday, Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/murray.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Patty Murray<\/a>, D-Wash. (chair of the <a href=\"http:\/\/dscc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee<\/a>), still wasn\u2019t willing to put all her chips on a candidate in New Mexico. But as she did last April, Murray strongly suggested that Rep. Martin Heinrich is her preference over Heinrich\u2019s Democratic challenger, state Auditor Hector Balderas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018We recruited Rep. Heinrich, and we think he\u2019s doing a great job,\u2019 Murray said during an hourlong exchange with Washington reporters about the U.S. Senate landscape. \u2018We have not endorsed in that race, but I think he\u2019s doing really great and I look forward to supporting him.\u2019\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The context, from the Journal:<!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt\u2019s a delicate dance for Murray in New Mexico. The DSCC views the state\u2019s Democratic primary election in June as potentially competitive. While Murray is impressed with Heinrich\u2019s credentials as a two-term representative in the state\u2019s once Republican-owned 1st Congressional District, she also realizes the up-and-coming Balderas brings a pretty good game to the contest, as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPerhaps Balderas\u2019 most significant strength as a candidate is his close ties to Hispanics, a critical voting bloc in the state. Even though Heinrich is raising significantly more money than Balderas, a strong turnout by Hispanics could help Balderas turn it into a very competitive primary.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article states that Murray \u201cdoesn\u2019t want to risk alienating Hispanic voters who will be critical to a Democratic victory in the November general election.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/main\/2011\/12\/07\/news\/senate-primary-is-a-delicate-dance-for-democrats.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fundraising arm of Democrats in the U.S. Senate isn\u2019t officially endorsing in the New Mexico primary between Martin Heinrich and Hector Balderas, but its chairwoman is suggesting that she prefers Heinrich.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[156,227,116],"class_list":["post-34258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-2012-election","tag-u-s-senate-race","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34258","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=34258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}