{"id":466,"date":"2006-08-15T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-15T18:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/breaking-news-pearce-agrees-to-debate-kissling-in-las-cruces\/"},"modified":"2006-08-15T12:11:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-15T18:11:00","slug":"breaking-news-pearce-agrees-to-debate-kissling-in-las-cruces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/breaking-news-pearce-agrees-to-debate-kissling-in-las-cruces\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Pearce agrees to debate Kissling in Las Cruces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Pearce%2C%20Steve.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Pearce%2C%20Steve.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., has agreed to one debate with Democratic challenger Al Kissling.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The debate will be held Aug. 22 at 3 p.m. at the <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&amp;q=3011+Buena+Vida+Circle,+las+cruces,+nm&#038;ie=UTF8&amp;ll=32.305924,-106.733036&#038;spn=0.021038,0.066605&amp;om=0\" target=\"_blank\">Good Samaritan Auditorium<\/a>, <st1:street st=\"on\"><st1:address st=\"on\">3011   Buena Vida Circle<\/st1:address><\/st1:street> in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>. It\u2019s the only debate in which Pearce has agreed to participate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kissling challenged Pearce months ago to several debates. The debate will be held in a small auditorium during the day, so it won\u2019t receive as much attention as a prime-time event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Kissling%2C%20Al.3.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.2.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The debate is sponsored by the League of Women Voters and the American Association of University Women.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Pearce doesn\u2019t have a reputation as a great debater, but Kissling is a political newcomer. Kissling will be holding a mock debate Friday night to prepare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Pearce\u2019s fundraising has brought in some 10 times that raised by Kissling, who recently shook up his campaign and hired a new campaign manager. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., has agreed to one debate with Democratic challenger Al Kissling. The debate will be held Aug. 22 at 3 p.m. at the Good Samaritan Auditorium, 3011 Buena Vida Circle in Las Cruces. It\u2019s the only debate in which Pearce has agreed to participate. Kissling challenged Pearce months ago to several [&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-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","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=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}