Remember Rep. Heather Wilson

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Remember Rep. Heather Wilson (R) of New Mexico?

She was the one who spent weeks early this year trying to use word games to bamboozle her constituents about what her position was on Social Security. (See this post from February when it finally occurred to me to try calling Wilson’s press secretary from my new cell phone rather than my office number and — voila! — the guy who never seemed to be at the phone for days on end suddenly answered.)

Now she’s got an opponent. And apparently she’s a top-tier one, New Mexico AG Patricia Madrid.

Last week Roll Call said that “Wilson’s outlook changed dramatically when state Attorney General Patricia Madrid (D) announced recently that she would run.” And they put Wilson in the list of top ten most vulnerable members of the House.

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