{"id":3560,"date":"2008-08-12T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-12T16:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/08\/udall-ad-web-site-blame-pearce-for-economic-woes\/"},"modified":"2008-08-12T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-12T16:55:00","slug":"udall-ad-web-site-blame-pearce-for-economic-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/08\/udall-ad-web-site-blame-pearce-for-economic-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Udall ad, Web site blame Pearce for economic woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Democratic U.S. Senate candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomudall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Udall<\/a> is out today with a new TV ad and Web site aimed at blaming the financial woes of New Mexicans on Republican opponent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleforpearce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a> and President Bush.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Here\u2019s the 30-second ad:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><object width=\"420\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ia51FmVV5Qw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/Ia51FmVV5Qw&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"420\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cGeorge Bush and Steve Pearce. How much are they costing you? Go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.middleclasssqueeze.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MiddleClassSqueeze.com<\/a> and use this calculator to find out,\u201d the ad\u2019s narrator states. \u201cSteve Pearce voted 91 percent of the time with George Bush. Giving special deals to big oil and drug companies while we get four-dollar-a-gallon gas and health-care costs through the roof.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI\u2019m Tom Udall and I approve this message because it\u2019s time middle-class families came first, not the special interests,\u201d Udall says at the end of the ad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Web site includes Udall\u2019s \u201cMiddle Class Squeeze Calculator,\u201d which, according to a news release from the Udall campaign, calculates how much prescription-drug costs, annual health-insurance premiums, monthly food costs and gasoline prices have increased during the Bush presidency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cIt\u2019s time for New Mexicans to see just how much we have been impacted by Steve Pearce\u2019s lock-step support of the failed Bush Administration policies that have led to the growing middle-class squeeze,\u201d Udall Campaign Manager Amanda Cooper said in the release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You have to provide an e-mail address and ZIP code to use the calculator, so the Web site and ad are also about building up the Udall campaign\u2019s database of contact information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The release of the ad and unveiling of the Web site coincide with Udall\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/udall-starts-campaign-tour-tuesday-in.html\">\u201cDoing Right by New Mexico Tour\u201d<\/a> that begins today in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Sunland<\/st1:PlaceName> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">Park<\/st1:PlaceType><\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tom Udall is out today with a new TV ad and Web site aimed at blaming the financial woes of New Mexicans on Republican opponent Steve Pearce and President Bush. Here\u2019s the 30-second ad: \u201cGeorge Bush and Steve Pearce. How much are they costing you? Go to MiddleClassSqueeze.com and use this [&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-3560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560","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=3560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}