Green Options » Pete Domenici http://greenoptions.com/tag/pete-domenici Posts tagged 'Pete Domenici' Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:30:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en NM-Senate: GOP All But Concedes Race to Tom Udall http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/10/nm-senate-gop-all-but-concedes-race-to-tom-udall/ http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/10/nm-senate-gop-all-but-concedes-race-to-tom-udall/#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:30:03 +0000 Taylor Shelton http://redgreenandblue.org/2008/09/10/nm-senate-gop-all-but-concedes-race-to-tom-udall/ Last week I wrote about the US Senate race in Colorado featuring Democratic congressman Mark Udall - now is the time to feature his cousin, fellow congressman and fellow senatorial candidate, Tom Udall of New Mexico. Udall received some great news in the past week when the National Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee canceled all their ad buys in New Mexico. Given their prior commitment to refuse spending money in races they couldn’t win, they seem to have taken all steps in conceding the race, short of actually pulling their candidate. In this now-uncontested race, Udall faces current GOP Congressman from New Mexico’s 2nd Congressional district, Steve Pearce. As with all of the senatorial and congressional races that I’ll be highlighting this fall, the Senate race in New Mexico has significant implications for environmental policy. Now that the GOP has all but bailed on Pearce, we can even be a bit more certain about what those implications will be.

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