ProgressNow N.M. took the link to the lobbying documents shown above off its Wilson Watch website after being asked by NMPolitics.net for comment Monday. It says it’s looking into her claim that she’s not the same Heather Wilson listed in the documents. (Screen shot from WilsonWatch.org)
A left-leaning group has accused Republican U.S. Senate candidate Heather Wilson of lobbying for an aeronautical company in Washington; Wilson says the allegation is false.
Heather Wilson (Photo by Heath Haussamen)
The left-leaning group ProgressNow New Mexico recently accused Republican U.S. Senate candidate Heather Wilson of serving as a lobbyist in Washington, D.C. after she left the U.S. House in 2008.
On its Wilson Watch website, the group has a section aimed at highlighting Wilson’s Washington ties. It states she was a lobbyist and, until Monday, linked to these documents showing that someone named Heather Wilson was a registered lobbyist for North Eastern Aeronautical in 2009 and 2010.
Wilson’s campaign spokesman, Christopher Sanchez, said it’s not the same Heather Wilson.
“Heather Wilson does not now, nor has she ever, had any employment, contract or affiliation of any kind with North Eastern Aeronautical,” Sanchez said.
ProgressNow’s Pat Davis took the lobbying documents off the Wilson Watch website on Monday after being contacted by NMPolitics.net for comment, and said the organization will double check Wilson’s claim.
“If this is not the same Heather Wilson, I am happy to post the correction,” he said.
ProgressNow, whose website states that it is a “non-profit, non-partisan, grassroots organization,” has been quite active this election cycle in New Mexico. Among its work was the outing of a man who illegally registered his dog to vote as the husband of a staffer on Wilson’s campaign.