{"id":3633,"date":"2008-08-27T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-28T01:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/08\/udall-tries-to-link-mccain-and-pearce-to-bush\/"},"modified":"2008-08-27T19:42:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-28T01:42:00","slug":"udall-tries-to-link-mccain-and-pearce-to-bush","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/08\/udall-tries-to-link-mccain-and-pearce-to-bush\/","title":{"rendered":"Udall tries to link McCain and Pearce to Bush"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tom Udall<\/a> used his two minutes as a speaker at the Democratic National Convention<\/a> tonight to try to link GOP presidential candidate John McCain<\/a> and Udall’s Republican Senate opponent, Steve Pearce<\/a>, to President Bush<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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Udall said Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama<\/a> will win New Mexico<\/st1:state> because, \u201cin the West, we know Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> is broken and Barack Obama is the change we need. It\u2019s bad enough that John McCain and my opponent, Steve Pearce, have supported every one of George Bush\u2019s special-interest economic policies.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Udall continued by saying that Bush has set a number of records during his presidency, including record prices for gas, food and college tuition. He said McCain and Pearce want to \u201ctry to set new records in middle-class misery.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Udall used his last few seconds to promote a Web site his campaign started — MiddleClassSqueeze.com<\/a> — which includes a calculator the Udall campaign says tells people how much their food, gas, health-insurance and prescription-drug costs have increased during the Bush presidency.<\/p>\n

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Udall was one of a handful of Democratic U.S. Senate candidates given the opportunity to briefly address the convention this evening.<\/p>\n

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Update, 8 p.m.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s video of Udall\u2019s speech:<\/p>\n

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