{"id":756,"date":"2006-10-23T14:28:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-23T20:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/kissling-gets-a-new-campaign-manager-again-and-help-from-a-newly-formed-anti-pearce-group\/"},"modified":"2006-10-23T14:28:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-23T20:28:00","slug":"kissling-gets-a-new-campaign-manager-again-and-help-from-a-newly-formed-anti-pearce-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/kissling-gets-a-new-campaign-manager-again-and-help-from-a-newly-formed-anti-pearce-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissling gets a new campaign manager, again, and help from a newly formed anti-Pearce group"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Al Kissling, the Democrat trying to unseat U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., has changed campaign managers again. <\/p>\n

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His new manager is Bill Grigaliunas, the 2006 chair of the board of directors for the United Way<\/st1:address><\/st1:street> of Southwest New Mexico<\/st1:place>. Grigaliunas, a longtime friend of Kissling who is working for free, also served recently as the interim general manager for KRWG-TV.<\/p>\n

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He replaces Loveless Johnson III of Santa Fe<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, who left the campaign in September.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>\u201cLoveless didn\u2019t quite, I think, come up to everybody\u2019s expectations and decided to leave,\u201d Grigaliunas said.<\/p>\n

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Johnson lasted only a few weeks. He was hired during the summer to replace then-Manager Roger Flemming when Kissling shook up his staff.<\/p>\n

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Johnson, a former director in the Clinton U.S. Department of Energy, was touted by Kissling as someone who \u201chas successfully managed four winning congressional campaigns\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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In addition to that bump in the road, Kissling\u2019s campaign reported a deficit earlier this month. Grigaliunas said that\u2019s no longer the case, and the campaign now has about $10,000 to spend on salaries and radio advertisements. Though that\u2019s pennies compared to the money in Pearce\u2019s bank account, it\u2019s better than nothing.<\/p>\n

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The campaign is also running newspaper ads in the Ruidoso area that were donated by individuals.<\/p>\n

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And a new group has formed to help Kissling. Ron Nesler, a military veteran who has been actively working to defeat Pearce, has started a new group, Citizens for Change<\/a>, aimed at accomplishing that goal. <\/p>\n

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Nesler, who worked for Pearce campaigns twice before switching sides, touts in an e-mail sent to Kissling supporters this weekend that his group will ensure that Pearce gets \u201cpayback for lying to war veterans.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cPearce truly represents no one other than big oil, the big drug companies and big foreign corporations,\u201d Nesler states in the e-mail. \u201cI am a lifelong Republican and Al Kissling represents my values much better than Stevan Pearce.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The background image on many of the site\u2019s pages shows Pearce standing beside former Rep. Mark Foley of page-scandal fame. The site is worth checking out. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Al Kissling, the Democrat trying to unseat U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., has changed campaign managers again. His new manager is Bill Grigaliunas, the 2006 chair of the board of directors for the United Way of Southwest New Mexico. Grigaliunas, a longtime friend of Kissling who is working for free, also served recently as the […]<\/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-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","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=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}