Former Republican Rep. Heather Wilson will not run for New Mexico governor in 2010.

Wilson announced her decision in an e-mail to supporters sent Thursday, the New Mexico Independent reported.

Wilson cited her work in the private sector and personal time with family as deterrents to running for office this cycle. And she added that "the Governor of New Mexico has no significant national security role -- an issue area that continues to be an important part of my life."

South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson has raised more than $1 million for his own campaign treasury since his "You lie" shout during President Obama's address to Congress two weeks ago. And now Wilson is spreading the wealth with his Republican colleagues.

Wilson is headed to Michigan Oct. 2 for a fundraiser with Tim Walberg, a Republican who held the 7th District seat for one term before he was ousted by Democrat Mark Schauer in 2008. Walberg is now seeking a rematch in what is expected to be a competitive race.

According to Walberg's Web site, the event in the 7th District city of Jackson, "will feature Congressman Wilson and Tim Walberg discussing health care and the need to stop a government takeover."

For $150, attendees would get two tickets and a photo with Wilson.

Wilson chief of staff Eric Dell told CQ Politics that the four-term congressman -- who is seeking re-election next year -- will then head to Missouri later that week for a speaking engagement with local politicos at the request of Rep. Roy Blunt, the likely GOP nominee in the state's open-seat Senate contest.

Even as South Carolina Rep. Joe Wilson was apologizing to the White House for shouting "You lie!" at President Obama last week, his campaign team was thinking ahead to what the online benefits might be.

The Wilson campaign purchased online ads to appear with Google searches of Wilson's name "within hours" of the speech, Google spokesman Galen Panger said, and Wilson's 2010 Democratic opponent Rob Miller bought Google ads to appear with the same search soon after.

"It was one of the fastest turnarounds we've seen on a rapid response campaign," said Panger.

Both men also have obtained the most prominently featured ad spots connected to searches for Rob Miller's name. And Wilson has begun running ads on the search terms "Obama speech." In the D.C. market the ad, entitled "Joe Wilson Under Attack," is the top sponsored link to appear above the search results, routing readers back to Wilson's campaign Web site and a video of Wilson criticizing Democratic attempts to officially scold him.

The resolution of disapproval was adopted on a largely party-line vote Tuesday afternoon.

And the windfall goes on and on and on for Rob Miller, the South Carolina Democrat who was preparing for a rematch against Republican Rep. Joe Wilson when Wilson was moved to yell back at a live president the way other people emote to their televisions.

At day’s end Friday, Miller’s campaign said it had a 48-hour bounty of more than $1 million from 25,000 donors. Wilson’s campaign was making a big haul as well, but hadn’t yet reported crossing the seven-figure mark.

Liberal advocacy group MoveOn.org is jumping on the Rob Miller fundraising bandwagon, 36 hours after Miller's 2010 opponent, Rep. Joe Wilson, yelled "You lie!" at President Obama.

Miller, a Democrat working on a rematch, has raised more than $750,000 since then, and MoveOn.org sent an e-mail to supporters Friday asking them to help put the challenger campaign over the $1 million mark.

A spokesman for Wilson says he's had a post-ouburst fundraising boost as well, that has topped $700,000.

Here's the latest from partisans seeking to ride the wave of interest in the way Rep. Joe Wilson vented to a live address to a joint session of Congress the way you or I might shout at the television.

The Democrat trying again to unseat Wilson, Rob Miller, has now taken in more than $700,000 in campaign donations, according to a the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. There's also a running tally on the Web site of the clearinghouse site ActBlue.com that runs a bit behind the DCCC's e-mail updates.

Over at the campaign of Republican Wilson, the congerssman declares "I will not back down" and has posted a video fund-raising appeal.

There now are two official candidates for the Republican nomination in New Mexico's 2010 race for governor -- and that field appears likely to grow over the next few weeks.

The latest entry is state Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones, who had been exploring the race for months. Arnold-Jones on July 26 sent a letter to supporters launching her run for the seat of term-limited Democratic incumbent Bill Richardson.

An official announcement is scheduled to come sometime later in August, according to local political blogger Heath Haussamen.

Many first-time hopefuls for statewide office at least go through the formality of setting up an "exploratory" committee before officially announcing their candidacies.

Not Republican Susana Martinez, the district attorney in New Mexico's Doña Ana County. She launched her campaign in her state's 2010 open-seat race for governor on Friday without going through an in-between stage.

"I'm ready to get to work," she said Friday.

Martinez has a tough road ahead in the contest to succeed two-term Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson, who cannot seek re-election under the state's term-limit law.

Abortion right's group and fundraising powerhouse EMILY's List rolled out its first 2010 governor's endorsements Friday, giving its stamp of approval to Democrats Alex Sink in Florida and Diane Denish in New Mexico. If elected, both would become the first female governors of their respective states.

Sink, Florida's Chief Financial Officer, looks like she will have a clear path to the Democratic nomination, and is likely to face Republican state Attorney General Bill McCollum, a former 10-term House member who was the GOP's U.S. Senate nominee in 2000 and a candidate in the 2004 Senate primary, in the general election. CQ Politics rates the race a Toss-Up.

Denish has served as New Mexico's lieutenant governor during two terms under Democratic Gov. Bill Richardson and was previously the chair of the Democratic Party of New Mexico. She is the early favorite to succeed Richardson, who is term-limited, in 2010, though she is likely to face a contested primary and general election to get there. State Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez is exploring a Democratic bid and a handful of Republicans -- Albuquerque financial adviser and Army National Guard brigadier general Greg Zanetti, former state Republican chairman and Albuquerque businessman Allen Weh, State Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones and former Congress members Steve Pearce and Heather Wilson are all declared or considering run. CQ rates the race Democrat Favored.

New Mexico Republicans have been anticipating an announcement by Steve Pearce, their defeated 2008 U.S. Senate nominee, about whether he will seek a comeback in 2010 -- either by running for governor in the race to succeed term-limited Democrat Bill Richardson, or by trying to reclaim the 2nd Congressional District seat, now occupied by freshman Democrat Harry Teague, that he left open in 2008 after three terms.

But the GOP will have to wait a bit longer than Pearce initially indicated. After earlier saying he would reveal a decision by the end of June, Pearce told CQ Politics Friday that he is still weighing his 2010 plans and will withhold his announcement until sometime between July 20 and July 27.

Pearce in 2008 edged then-Rep. Heather A. Wilson for the Republican nomination for the Senate seat opened up by the retirement of six-term GOP incumbent Pete V. Domenici. But Democrat Tom Udall, then the state's other U.S. House member, trounced Pearce in the general election by 61 percent to 39 percent.