{"id":346,"date":"2006-07-07T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-07T13:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/07\/kissling-fundraising-exceeds-expectations-but-still-dwarfed-by-pearces-money\/"},"modified":"2006-07-07T07:44:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-07T13:44:00","slug":"kissling-fundraising-exceeds-expectations-but-still-dwarfed-by-pearces-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/07\/kissling-fundraising-exceeds-expectations-but-still-dwarfed-by-pearces-money\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissling fundraising exceeds expectations but still dwarfed by Pearce&#8217;s money"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Kissling%2C%20Al.0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Kissling%2C%20Al.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Al Kissling, the Democratic challenger to Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., exceeded his own fundraising hopes last month, but he still has a long way to go.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In an e-mail sent to supporters this week, Kissling said he had a goal of raising $20,000 in June, but in fact raised almost $30,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThis bodes well for the future of this grassroots campaign,\u201d Kissing wrote. \u201c\u2026 All things are possible if we continue to work together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kissling still has a long way to go. As of the reports filed on May 17, Kissling had raised a total of $49,244 and spent $44,904, according to OpenSecrets.org. Pearce had raised $829,505 and spent $427,533.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">While we\u2019re on the subject of this race, I pointed out a few months ago that Pearce had nothing listed in the accomplishments section on his campaign <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stevepearceforcongress.com\/home\/home.asp\" target=\"_blank\">Web site<\/a> and no entries in the blog on the site. Days later, some old news releases were added to the accomplishments site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As of Thursday, that section had not been updated, and the blog section no longer exists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Since I gave you a link to Pearce\u2019s site, here\u2019s a link to Kissling\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kisslingforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">site<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Kissling, the Democratic challenger to Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., exceeded his own fundraising hopes last month, but he still has a long way to go. In an e-mail sent to supporters this week, Kissling said he had a goal of raising $20,000 in June, but in fact raised almost $30,000. \u201cThis bodes well for [&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-346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346","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=346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}