{"id":586,"date":"2006-09-15T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-15T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/09\/kissling-gets-attention-of-american-indians\/"},"modified":"2006-09-15T17:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T23:00:00","slug":"kissling-gets-attention-of-american-indians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/09\/kissling-gets-attention-of-american-indians\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissling gets attention of American Indians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Kissling%2C%20Al.9.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.8.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Al Kissling might be way behind in the polls in his bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., but he has the attention of American Indians.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The publication <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiancountry.com\/index.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">Indian Country Today<\/a>, which dubs itself as \u201cThe nation\u2019s leading American Indian news source,\u201d is featuring Kissling in an article you can read by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiancountry.com\/content.cfm?id=1096413652\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Though Kissling is trailing in the polls, the article states, \u201cthere\u2019s plenty of time between now and election night, and in a district where Indian voters are numerous enough to make a difference, Kissling has developed a head for Indian affairs that could serve him well come November.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kissling, a retired Presbyterian minister, took an interim post in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Gallup<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> in 2000, before he retired. What stood out to him there was the effect of diabetes among Navajos, the article states. Kissling plans to make reauthorization of the Indian Health Care Improvement Act a priority if elected.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The article focuses on Kissling\u2019s pledge to support health care and education programs and the sovereignty of Indian nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI feel strongly that Native Americans have not been fairly dealt with, and we need to be respecting that they were the first citizens and we are the immigrants, communicating as government-to-government on a lot of these issues,\u201d the article quotes Kissling as saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kissling pledged, if elected, to hire American Indians for his <st1:state st=\"on\">Washington<\/st1:state> staff, in addition to keeping one in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> to serve as a liaison with tribes. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Kissling might be way behind in the polls in his bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., but he has the attention of American Indians. The publication Indian Country Today, which dubs itself as \u201cThe nation\u2019s leading American Indian news source,\u201d is featuring Kissling in an article you can read by clicking here. [&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-586","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586","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=586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/586\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}