The Santa Fe Reporter endorses who?

By Trip Jennings 5/29/08 12:34 PM

Benny Shendo Jr. may not have gotten Gov. Bill Richardson’s endorsement this week in the 3rd Congressional District race for the Democratic contest. But he got the nod from the Santa Fe Reporter. Yep, the Reporter plugged Shendo despite the furor he caused last week when he implied that front runner Ben Ray Lujan was gay and wasn’t being honest with folks. Read the reasons why here.

The Reporter also went for GOP Senate candidate U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, picking the staunch conservative over his more moderate GOP rival for the Republican Senate nomination — U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson. The Reporter says Pearce got the nod because Wilson wouldn’t sit down for an interview and because of her role in the David Iglesias affair. So Democratic U.S. Rep. Tom Udall having an easier time in the general election with Pearce than with Wilson had nothing to do with it? Ya sure?

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trip

Thanks Johnny Neuron and Dave Maass for catching my flub. I know Shendo is in the 3rd but clearly my fingers wrote something else. I guess if you're going to have some fun you better make sure the info is correct. Julia, duly noted, re: your comments.

juliag

Thanks for noting & linking to our endorsements. However, I'm not sure why NMI is questioning the motive of our Pearce endorsement when our endorsements make clear our reasoning for the sake of our readers. Additionally, the polls seem to show Udall beating both Pearce and Wilson by approximately the same margin, so I'm not sure on what your final conclusion is based. (www.cqpolitics.com/wmspage.cfm?docid=news-00000...). Finally, we also provided a third reason Republican voters might find Pearce more competitive, which is his support in the southern part of the state, versus Udall and Wilson's more northern base. â"Julia Goldberg, Editor, The Santa Fe Reporter