Part 1: Video of Tom Udall's Saturday Events at Page One, Montgomery Park

Tom Udall answers our questions yesterday about where the $2-3 billion a week is going in Iraq and how we can avoid a financial collapse in the U.S.

U.S. Senate candidate Tom Udall was in the Albuquerque area yesterday on his tour around New Mexico, and his campaign hosted three events and participated in a fourth. There were excellent turnouts at all four events and it's evident that Dems are pumped this year and ready to work hard to turn the state Blue. DFNM attended two of the events. Here's Part 1 of our report. We'll have more tomorrow as we have a bunch of good videos and photos.

Udall talks about trying to keep the campaign positive

Udall's day started out at 11 AM at a neighborhood meeting at Page One Bookstore in Albuquerque, the state's largest independent bookstore, where he gave a short speech and took questions from the audience.

Longer 7.5 minute clip of Udall talking about his vote against the Iraq invasion, the concerns of voters and energy policy

On Iraq, Udall had this to say, in part:

This Iraq war vote will go down in history as one of our major foreign policy blunders in the country. I really believe that.

Next, it was on to a 1:00 PM matanza in the South Valley where more than 300 people packed in to meet with Rep. Udall and down some top of the line grub.

At 3:00 PM, Tom was at Montgomery Park in Albuquerque's NE Heights hosting a BBQ that was well-attended despite the monsoon rain that fell during the first half hour or so. This is the other event we'll be posting photos and video from in Part 2 of our report, tomorrow.

Next Rep. Udall was off to the opening celebration for the Democratic Party of New Mexico's new office in Rio Rancho where we hear he was on fire urging the crowd to get active and turn New Mexico Blue. Rep. Udall was joined by Martin Heinrich, running for Congress in NM-01, Ben Ray Lujan, our NM-03 Congressional candidate and DPNM Chair Brian Colon, as well as other Dem leaders and excited folks from the West Side.

For more coverage on these and the two other Udall events yesterday, head over to New Mexico FBIHOP, where there's sure to be some terrific photos up soon. Matt has been on a super-hero marathon and attended all four Udall events yesterday. We hear he was up in Espanola today at the Hillary Clinton speech on behalf of Barack Obama. I don't think he sleeps. And I've heard he has blisters on his fingers, although that could just be a wild rumor.

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