Lt. Gov. Diane Denish and Las Vegas Mayor Tony Marquez Jr. want the McCain robocalls to stop.

On a conference call with reporters put together by the Barack Obama campaign, Denish and Marquez spoke about the controversial calls Tuesday that have been reported in key battleground states around the nation.

The robocall in question in New Mexico is one that attempts to tie Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama to Bill Ayers, the former Weather Underground member who is now a professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

“It’s just unfortunate that a man who served our country honorably has chosen a dishonorable road for campaigning,” Denish said on the call.

Marquez, a Republican, says that he himself received a call, but did not listen to it all the way through. “I’m very offended by those robocalls, and I shouldn’t have to listen to that garbage on my answering machine. And neither should our residents of New Mexico or my home city, Las Vegas, New Mexico,” he declared.

Denish said she believed some calls were to discourage potential voters from voting. But Obama is “inspirational” in both his campaign and his policies. She cited the record numbers of early voters over the weekend as proof that McCain’s tactics weren’t working.

According to Talking Points Memo’s page mapping the robocalls, the only robocall being sent out in New Mexico is the Ayers call.

The call goes as follows:

“You need to know that Barack Obama has worked closely with domestic terrorist Bill Ayers, whose organization bombed the U.S. Capitol, the Pentagon, a judge’s home, and killed Americans. And Democrats will enact an extreme leftist agenda if they take control of Washington. Barack Obama and his Democratic allies lack the judgment to lead our country.”

Obama spokesperson Parita Shah said the calls are “desperate attempts” to change the subject from issues that matter.

Denish agreed.

“People in New Mexico are very interested in how we are going to get this economy back on track so that we can help to continue to build our infrastructure to provide health care, to provide quality education, to do the things that we need to do,” Denish said. “They are not interested in these personal attacks.”