{"id":3432,"date":"2008-07-07T16:02:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-07T22:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/07\/will-conservation-legacy-hurt-the-udalls\/"},"modified":"2008-07-07T16:02:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-07T22:02:00","slug":"will-conservation-legacy-hurt-the-udalls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/07\/will-conservation-legacy-hurt-the-udalls\/","title":{"rendered":"Will conservation legacy hurt the Udalls?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Environmental groups have lined up to help elect Democrats Tom Udall<\/a> and Mark Udall<\/a> to the U.S. Senate in November. <\/p>\n

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So, with today\u2019s economic situation being the top issue for voters, it\u2019s no surprise that Republican opponents are attacking the Udall legacy as a contributing cause to the high price of gasoline.<\/p>\n

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The New York Times<\/a> published an article today raising the question of whether the Udall legacy of protecting the West\u2019s natural resources will help or hurt the two candidates in November. Tom Udall is running for Senate in New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. His first cousin Mark is running in Colorado<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>.<\/p>\n

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If both win, both western states will be represented entirely by Democrats in the U.S. Senate.<\/p>\n

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Their fathers, brothers Stewart Udall<\/a> and Morris Udall<\/a>, \u201cused their own federal power more than a generation ago to set aside millions of acres of public land for national parks, wilderness areas and wildlife refuges,\u201d according to The Times. \u201cThe sons embraced the family conservation ethic upon simultaneously winning House seats in 1998 and now emphasize that approach in their unusual cousinly quest for open Senate seats.\u201d<\/p>\n

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But with gas prices rising, the question is whether conservation or the dollar will be the top concern of voters in November.<\/p>\n

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\u201cPeople are angry the Udalls have worked in tandem to drive the prices up as far as they are,\u201d Bob Schaffer<\/a>, a former House member running against Mark Udall, told The Times. \u201cThey want to see us move faster on production of American resources.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The races may be a test of whether Western voters want the comprehensive approach to energy the Udalls advocate or more drilling and production of fossil fuels, which their opponents want.<\/p>\n

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This election \u201cis the moment for the nation to confront its energy future,\u201d Stewart Udall told The Times. \u201cThis is now the great challenge, to create a new energy policy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Both Udalls are leading in the polls. But as gas prices rise, more and more Americans are supporting increased drilling in spite of arguments against it. Tom Udall\u2019s GOP opponent, Steve Pearce<\/a>, told The Times that New Mexicans are having to choose between buying gasoline and medicine in part because his opponent opposes expanded offshore drilling and increased refinery capacity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Environmental groups have lined up to help elect Democrats Tom Udall and Mark Udall to the U.S. Senate in November. So, with today\u2019s economic situation being the top issue for voters, it\u2019s no surprise that Republican opponents are attacking the Udall legacy as a contributing cause to the high price of gasoline. The New York […]<\/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-3432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432","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=3432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}