--- On Tue, 6/3/08, shawn radcliff <cliffhangers4x4club@...> wrote:
> ________________________________
> From: fhuff@...
> To: fhuff@...
> Subject: Your vote in tomorrow's primary will determine
> if the Chile Challenge has a chance to continue.
> Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2008 17:18:39 -0600
>
>
> 2008 Chile Challenge Participants:
> Please remember to vote in the New Mexico primary tomorrow.
> I am sending this out to all 2008 Chile Challenge
> participants to let you know that your vote in tomorrow’s
> primary could well affect rather or not the Chile Challenge
> continues.
> It is imperative that Steve Pearce gets the Republican
> nomination for the general election. Here is why I feel so
> strongly concerning Congressman Pearce:
> 1.      Steve Pearce has consistently stood firm in
> opposing legislation that would take away our rights to use
> Federal land. Heather Wilson, on the other hand, was the
> driving force in creating the only new wilderness in New
> Mexico in the last twenty years.
> 2.      Wilson also voted recently to create the
> National Landscape Conservation System, which will be used
> as another weapon in closing access to federal land that
> the wilderness act can’t close. Steve Pearce tried to get
> an amendment added that would protect ranching, but it was
> voted down. He voted against the bill.
> 3.      In looking at Wilson’s record of land use
> votes, she has voted EVERY time with the Democratic
> candidate for the Senate, Tom Udall. I see virtually no
> difference between Wilson and Udall when it comes to land
> use issues.
> 4.      One of the main reasons the public lands in
> Doña Ana County are under such a threat to wilderness and
> national monument closure, is because Senator Domenici
> stayed too long in the Senate and has abandoned his
> electorate. He has come to espouse the liberal way of
> thinking of closing our public lands to the public. He has
> traded his integrity for doing what is correct, for doing
> what he has to do to get his personal agenda items passed.
> This has led him to support the trackways national monument
> bill in exchange for a bill Domenici wanted for the Carlsbad
> area that Senator Bingaman would have opposed.
> 5.      Senator Domenici is now, at the last minute,
> supporting Heather Wilson for his replacement. Besides
> being outright mean, she is just as liberal and willing to
> sell out whatever or whoever is necessary to get her bills
> passed, just as Senator Domenici has done.
> 6.      Steve Pearce will not sell us out just to get
> another, favorite, bill passed. He has and will stand firm
> on protecting our access to public lands.
> 7.      If Heather Wilson gets the GOP nomination, you
> most likely have attended the last Chile Challenge.
> Yes, we have to get Steve Pearce elected in the general
> election, but we must cross this bridge first.
> Please vote for Steve Pearce tomorrow so he can help us
> continue to use public lands. Also, please forward this to
> your contacts, so they will know what is stake for all of
> our public lands. Every vote will make a difference.
> Thank you,
> Fred Huff
> 1807 Brown Rd..
> Las Cruces, NM  88005
> (575) 524-7145