Ad war heats up in race for New Mexico governor
SANTA FE - The sole Republican candidate for New Mexico governor launched his first television ads Wednesday that highlight his early childhood brushes with poverty as a son of Texas sharecroppers.
The ads by U.S. Rep. and gubernatorial candidate Steve Pearce of Hobbs came more than a month before voters go to the polls in the June primary.
Pearce notified the Federal Communications Commission of more than $100,000 in spending on political ads that began airing on network affiliates and cable television.
In one new ad, the seven-term congressman revisits the broken-down remains of his early childhood home on a Texas farm where his family lived without indoor plumbing.
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