{"id":3543,"date":"2008-08-07T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-07T19:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/08\/pearce-continues-hammering-udall-on-energy\/"},"modified":"2008-08-07T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-07T19:08:00","slug":"pearce-continues-hammering-udall-on-energy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/08\/pearce-continues-hammering-udall-on-energy\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearce continues hammering Udall on energy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Republican Senate candidate Steve Pearce\u2019s<\/a> new radio ad continues his campaign\u2019s hammering of Democratic opponent Tom Udall<\/a> on energy issues. <\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s time our government stood up for working families, reduce our energy costs by building nuclear power plants and drilling for oil on land and offshore,\u201d Pearce says in the ad, which you can listen to by clicking here<\/a>. \u201cThe far left environmentalists are not going to like this and maybe it\u2019s not politically correct, but nuclear energy is a sure way to America<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>\u2019s energy independence. Nuclear power can make America<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> free from Middle Eastern oil cartels.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cNuclear power will make energy affordable, America<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> prosperous and keep American jobs here instead of being shipped overseas,\u201d Pearce says in the ad. \u201cBut Tom Udall and the extreme environmentalists oppose nuclear energy and offshore drilling. That\u2019s bad for America<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>. Tom Udall and the radical environmentalists are in our way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\u201cTom Udall opposes nuclear and domestic oil drilling. I support them. It\u2019s just that simple,\u201d Pearce says.<\/p>\n

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In recent days, Pearce has hammered Udall on the drilling and nuclear issues in television<\/a> and newspaper<\/a> ads. Republicans in Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> believe the energy issue is the one on which they have the advantage among the American people in an otherwise left-leaning year.<\/p>\n

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A Udall campaign spokeswoman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n

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Update, 1:50 p.m.<\/p>\n

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Udall spokeswoman Marissa Padilla released this statement:<\/p>\n

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\u201cSteve Pearce kicked off his campaign with false negative attack ads. It\u2019s no wonder. If I had his record of carrying the water for big oil, special interests and George W. Bush, I wouldn\u2019t have anything positive to say either,\u201d she said. \u201cTom Udall supports a balanced, multifaceted approach to addressing our nation\u2019s energy dilemma. He knows that nuclear is part of our energy future and we must also increase domestic oil drilling and production, crack down on hedge fund speculation, dramatically increase fuel efficiency standards for automobiles and make serious investments in alternative energy.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican Senate candidate Steve Pearce\u2019s new radio ad continues his campaign\u2019s hammering of Democratic opponent Tom Udall on energy issues. \u201cIt\u2019s time our government stood up for working families, reduce our energy costs by building nuclear power plants and drilling for oil on land and offshore,\u201d Pearce says in the ad, which you can listen […]<\/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-3543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543","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=3543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}