{"id":6786,"date":"2009-09-25T12:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-09-25T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=6786"},"modified":"2009-09-24T14:06:01","modified_gmt":"2009-09-24T20:06:01","slug":"ag-secretary-attending-fundraiser-for-teague","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/09\/ag-secretary-attending-fundraiser-for-teague\/","title":{"rendered":"Ag secretary attending fundraiser for Teague"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6787\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6787\" title=\"Vilsack, Tom\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Vilsack-Tom.jpg\" alt=\"Tom Vilsack\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tom Vilsack<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A number of high-profile Democrats in Washington have been helping U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/teague.house.gov\/\">Harry Teague<\/a>, D-N.M., raise money for his re-election campaign lately. He\u2019ll get help from another on Wednesday when Agriculture Secretary <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tom_Vilsack\">Tom Vilsack<\/a> makes a stop in Mesilla.<\/p>\n<p>Teague will hold a \u201cbreakfast and discussion\u201d with \u201cspecial guest\u201d Vilsack on Wednesday from 8-9:30 a.m. at Meson De Mesilla, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=1803+Avenida+de+Mesilla,+mesilla,+nm&amp;sll=37.0625,-95.677068&amp;sspn=46.27475,62.578125&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;z=16&amp;iwloc=A\">1803 Avenida de Mesilla<\/a>, according to <a href=\"..\/..\/Documents\/Vilsack-Invite.pdf\">the event invitation<\/a>. Though there\u2019s no indication that a contribution to Teague\u2019s campaign is required, a contribution form is attached to the invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Teague is in a tough re-election battle against his predecessor, former U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Steve_Pearce\">Steve Pearce<\/a>, R-N.M. It\u2019s one of the hottest House races in the nation, and Teague has been getting a lot of help from Washington Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>For example, Energy Secretary Steven Chu attended a fundraiser for Teague in Las Cruces <a href=\"..\/2009\/08\/secretary-chu-calls-for-a-new-industrial-revolution\/\">last month<\/a>. And several high-profile House Democrats held a fundraiser for Teague <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/washington\/232255551739newswashington09-23-09.htm\">on Wednesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A number of high-profile Democrats in Washington have been helping U.S. Rep. Harry Teague, D-N.M., raise money for his re-election campaign lately. He\u2019ll get help from another on Wednesday when Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack makes a stop in Mesilla.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[108,116],"class_list":["post-6786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786","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=6786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}