{"id":455,"date":"2006-08-11T07:58:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-11T13:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/democrat-kissling-shakes-up-campaign-staff\/"},"modified":"2006-08-11T07:58:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-11T13:58:00","slug":"democrat-kissling-shakes-up-campaign-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/democrat-kissling-shakes-up-campaign-staff\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Kissling shakes up campaign staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Kissling%2C%20Al.1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Kissling%2C%20Al.0.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Democrat Al Kissling has shaken up his campaign staff as he attempts to jumpstart an operation that has failed to raise one-tenth of the money secured by his opponent, Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In an e-mail sent Thursday to supporters, Kissling announced that he has \u201cmade several changes in personnel,\u201d including the departure of his former campaign manager, Roger Flemming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Flemming has been replaced by Loveless Johnson III of <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Santa Fe<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, a former director in the Clinton U.S. Department of Energy. According to Kissling\u2019s e-mail, Johnson \u201chas successfully managed four winning congressional campaigns of current and past members of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In addition, Kissling has hired a \u201cfull-time travel assistant, David Anderson from the Democratic Party of New Mexico.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cStay tuned as Loveless rounds out the staff with a field coordinator and other personnel,\u201d Kissling wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kissling also wrote that a \u201cnew and improved\u201d Web site will be unveiled within the next week at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kisslingforcongress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.kisslingforcongress.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Will it help? Or is it too late? Connecticut Sen. Joe Lieberman\u2019s defeat in the Democratic primary earlier this week has many saying voters are fed up with Washington and Republicans. We\u2019ll see.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As of the June 30 report, Pearce had raised more than $944,000 and spend more than $450,000. Kissling had raised about $81,000 and spent less than $62,000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opensecrets.org\/races\/summary.asp?ID=NM02&amp;Cycle=2006\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> to see OpenSecrets.org\u2019s profile of the money raised by both candidates thus far. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrat Al Kissling has shaken up his campaign staff as he attempts to jumpstart an operation that has failed to raise one-tenth of the money secured by his opponent, Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M. In an e-mail sent Thursday to supporters, Kissling announced that he has \u201cmade several changes in personnel,\u201d including the departure of his [&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-455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455","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=455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/455\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}