{"id":866,"date":"2006-11-13T12:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-13T18:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/kissling-plans-to-run-again-in-2008\/"},"modified":"2006-11-13T12:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-13T18:08:00","slug":"kissling-plans-to-run-again-in-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/kissling-plans-to-run-again-in-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Kissling plans to run again in 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/6506\/2852\/1600\/Kissling%2C%20Al.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger2\/6506\/2852\/200\/Kissling%2C%20Al.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Al Kissling, who scored just over 40 percent of the vote last week in his bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., plans to run again in 2008.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Democrat made the announcement today in an e-mail to supporters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWhen you consider we began the year with no funding, a minimal staff and even less experience, it is gratifying to see what we were able to accomplish together,\u201d Kissling wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Before the 2008 campaign can get started, Kissling must raise about $35,000 to pay off debt from this year\u2019s campaign. Kissling is asking for donations, and plans to hold a fundraiser on Dec. 10 to finalize that process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kissling wrote that he plans to officially organize and get started on the 2008 campaign in January. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kissling\u2019s 2006 campaign manager, Bill Grigaliunas, said he\u2019s optimistic about 2008.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cAl did extremely well running on a shoelace (this year),\u201d he said. \u201cWith money, he will be a winner.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">For other Democrats who were beginning to think 2008 might be the year to strike but were hoping to avoid a primary, this will be bad news. Are they willing to spend a lot of money in a primary against Kissling, or will they decide to stay out of the race after all? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Al Kissling, who scored just over 40 percent of the vote last week in his bid to unseat U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., plans to run again in 2008. The Democrat made the announcement today in an e-mail to supporters. \u201cWhen you consider we began the year with no funding, a minimal staff and even [&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-866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866","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=866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}