{"id":3820,"date":"2008-10-08T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/10\/teaguetinsley-forum-to-be-televised-nationally\/"},"modified":"2008-10-08T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T17:52:00","slug":"teaguetinsley-forum-to-be-televised-nationally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/10\/teaguetinsley-forum-to-be-televised-nationally\/","title":{"rendered":"Teague\/Tinsley forum to be televised nationally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SOzzlbwWlnI\/AAAAAAAAI-U\/ypRxk_FaaZQ\/s1600-h\/Teague,+Harry.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SOzzlbwWlnI\/AAAAAAAAI-U\/ypRxk_FaaZQ\/s200\/Teague,+Harry.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254842689665799794\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Welcome to the big time, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.harryforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Teague<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edtinsleyforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ed Tinsley<\/a>. Seizing on the fact that <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>\u2019s 2nd Congressional District race is hot, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.c-span.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">C-SPAN<\/a> plans to televise Thursday\u2019s forum between the candidates nationwide and live.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The announcement, made today by forum host <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmfirst.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Mexico First<\/a>, comes several days after <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/pundits-figure-out-that-2nd-district.html\">national pundits began realizing<\/a> that the 2nd District race is a close one.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The hour-long forum begins at 7 p.m. and will be held in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.krwg-tv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">KRWG-TV<\/a> studio on the <st1:placename st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">State<\/st1:placetype> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">University<\/st1:placetype> campus in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. In addition to being aired on C-SPAN, the forum will be broadcast by KRWG and public television stations in <st1:city st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:city> and <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Roswell<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. It will also be broadcast on public radio stations across the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SOzzoI_v98I\/AAAAAAAAI-c\/44vPbEzrrdg\/s1600-h\/Tinsley,+Ed.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SOzzoI_v98I\/AAAAAAAAI-c\/44vPbEzrrdg\/s200\/Tinsley,+Ed.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254842736169711554\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In addition to airing the forum on television, <a href=\"http:\/\/knme.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">KNME-TV<\/a> plans to broadcast it online and make it available for other Web sites to broadcast online. I will broadcast it on this site, so you\u2019ll be able to watch it here live or at a later time if you aren\u2019t able to watch it live.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The forum is being preceded by a town-hall meeting from 1-5 p.m. that will be attended by several dozen voters from throughout the district. They will discuss the issues they want the candidates to address. During the forum, participants in the town hall will become the studio audience and ask their questions of the candidates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">This is one of two forums for <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> candidates that will be televised nationally in the coming days. U.S. Senate candidates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.peopleforpearce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Pearce<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tomudall.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tom Udall<\/a> will debate live on Sunday on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/3032608\" target=\"_blank\">NBC\u2019s Meet the Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to the big time, Harry Teague and Ed Tinsley. Seizing on the fact that New Mexico\u2019s 2nd Congressional District race is hot, C-SPAN plans to televise Thursday\u2019s forum between the candidates nationwide and live. The announcement, made today by forum host New Mexico First, comes several days after national pundits began realizing that the [&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-3820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820","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=3820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}