{"id":570,"date":"2006-09-12T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-12T21:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/09\/using-kissling-quotes-pearce-ad-spins-challenger-as-bizarre\/"},"modified":"2006-09-12T15:23:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-12T21:23:00","slug":"using-kissling-quotes-pearce-ad-spins-challenger-as-bizarre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/09\/using-kissling-quotes-pearce-ad-spins-challenger-as-bizarre\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Kissling quotes, Pearce ad spins challenger as ‘bizarre’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce has been out to marginalize his challenger in this year\u2019s election by painting him as an extreme liberal. Thus far, his radio advertisements have been effective. <\/p>\n

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Republican Pearce faces Democratic challenger Al Kissling on Nov. 7.<\/p>\n

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Pearce currently has two radio ads playing in the Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> area. One touts his \u201cindependent leadership,\u201d which surely angers Democrats, who will note that Pearce is one of the few Republicans to stand by President Bush\u2019s foreign policy decisions even as others in the GOP have distanced themselves.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>The ad talks about \u201cRepublicans, independents and Democrats\u201d supporting Pearce, then quotes a woman who claims to be a Democrat who supports Pearce.<\/p>\n

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The second ad starts out with the sort of slow, strange circus-like music you might hear on one of the more sarcastic and comical episodes of The X-Files.<\/p>\n

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\u201cAl Kissling has some pretty bizarre views about America<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place>,\u201d the narrator says, adding that Kissling \u201csaid he is more scared of our own American National Guard than Islamic terrorists.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The ad then plays a clip from an interview Kissling gave several weeks ago to Michael Swickard<\/a>. Kissling is heard on the ad saying \u201cI was more scared of the National Guard in the airports than I was any terrorist coming through.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cBizarre,\u201d the narrator says. \u201cKissling\u2019s views are as shocking as they are offensive. But for Al Kissling, extreme and bizarre ideas are nothing new.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cKissling is against your right to pass on your family farm, home or business to your children,\u201d the narrator states.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey keep talking about a death tax. That\u2019s a tax on a dead person,\u201d Kissling says. \u201cWhat\u2019s wrong with that?\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kissling can also be heard on the ad calling efforts to repeal the death tax \u201cwelfare for the rich.\u201d<\/p>\n

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You can listen to the ad by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve been trying to get a response from the Kissling campaign for about a week and, as of today, have not received one. I\u2019ll let you know if I get one.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s part of the reason Pearce\u2019s ads have been so effective: little response from Kissling.<\/p>\n

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I suspect the use of Kissling\u2019s quotes by the Pearce campaign is a bit misleading, if for no other reason then because most political attack ads are, to some degree, misleading. Such false statements must be answered immediately. Hopefully, Kissling\u2019s campaign will respond soon. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce has been out to marginalize his challenger in this year\u2019s election by painting him as an extreme liberal. Thus far, his radio advertisements have been effective. Republican Pearce faces Democratic challenger Al Kissling on Nov. 7. Pearce currently has two radio ads playing in the Las Cruces area. One touts his […]<\/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-570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570","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=570"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}