{"id":3517,"date":"2008-07-31T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-31T18:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/07\/obamas-office-locations-reveal-focus-on-southern-nm\/"},"modified":"2008-07-31T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-31T18:29:00","slug":"obamas-office-locations-reveal-focus-on-southern-nm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/07\/obamas-office-locations-reveal-focus-on-southern-nm\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s office locations reveal focus on southern NM"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama<\/a> will formally open two offices in Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> Ana<\/st1:placename> County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> this weekend and plans a third later in the campaign. <\/p>\n

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The offices reveal a widespread effort by the Obama campaign to reach voters in southern New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> and throughout the state. The campaign will open offices in Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> and Anthony this weekend, according to a news release. It already has offices open in Silver<\/st1:placename> City<\/st1:placetype> and Alamogordo<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. Later in the campaign it plans to open offices in Deming, Ruidoso and on the New Mexico<\/st1:placename> State<\/st1:placetype> University<\/st1:placetype> campus in Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, the news release states.<\/p>\n

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The Anthony, Las Cruces<\/st1:city>, Silver<\/st1:placename> City<\/st1:placetype> and Alamogordo<\/st1:city> offices are among 16 around New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> that will hold grand-opening ceremonies this weekend, according to Obama\u2019s Web site<\/a>. Six of the offices will be located in the 2nd Congressional District in southern New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. As of this weekend, the campaign will have 17 offices in New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>.<\/p>\n

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The campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain<\/a> couldn\u2019t immediately be reached for information about McCain\u2019s New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> offices. McCain\u2019s Web site<\/a> lists only an office in Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n

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The invitation<\/a> for the opening of Obama\u2019s Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> office states that such field offices \u201care run by volunteers and are dependent on the grassroots community to help loan anything they may have to help run our office until election day.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The grand opening of the Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> office will be held Saturday at 6 p.m. It\u2019s located at 255 East Lohman Ave.<\/a> For more information, call 575-312-6056 or e-mail hshedrick@nmforchange.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The grand opening of the Anthony office will be held Sunday at 3 p.m. It\u2019s located at 880 Anthony Drive<\/a>. For more information, call 575-680-6088 or e-mail lavila@nmforchange.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Update, 5:10 p.m.<\/p>\n

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Bill Riggs, regional press secretary for the Republican National Committee, said McCain has one office in New Mexico<\/st1:State>, located in Albuquerque<\/st1:City>, and the RNC\u2019s Victory 2008 campaign — which exists primarily to elect McCain — has five offices around New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:State>.<\/p>\n

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This posting originally stated that Obama would open 12 offices around New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, including seven in the 2nd District, this weekend. After this article was published, the Obama campaign changed the numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will formally open two offices in Do\u00f1a Ana County this weekend and plans a third later in the campaign. The offices reveal a widespread effort by the Obama campaign to reach voters in southern New Mexico and throughout the state. The campaign will open offices in Las […]<\/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-3517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517","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=3517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3517\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}