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==Political matters==

==Political matters==

Tinsley has been a supporter of former [[U.S. President]] [[George W. Bush]], who appointed him to the board of the scenic Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico.<ref name=bio/> In 2002, Tinsley ran unsuccessfully for the Republican congressional nomination to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of the late [[Republican Party|GOP]] Representative Joseph R. Skeen. Instead, the party choice and the [[general election]] victory went to intra-party rival [[Steve Pearce]],<ref name=bio/>who ran unsuccessfully for [[governor]] in 2018.

Tinsley has been a supporter of former [[U.S. President]] [[George W. Bush]], who appointed him to the board of the scenic Valles Caldera National Preserve in New Mexico.<ref name=bio/> In 2002, Tinsley ran unsuccessfully for the Republican congressional nomination to fill the vacancy created by the retirement of the late [[Republican Party|GOP]] Representative Joseph Richard "Joe" Skeen (1927-2003). Instead, the party choice and the [[general election]] victory went to intra-party rival [[Steve Pearce]],<ref name=bio/>who ran unsuccessfully for [[governor]] in 2018.

In 2008, Pearce did not seek a fourth term in the U.S. House but instead ran unsuccessfully for the [[United States Senate]] seat vacated by veteran Republican [[Pete Domenici]] of [[Albuquerque]]. Tinsley won a five-person Republican primary to succeed Pearce, but he lost the November 4 general election to the Democrat Harry Teague, an oilman from Hobbs, the first Democrat to win the post since 1978, the year that Domenici was elected to his second term as a senator.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1978election.pdf|author=Benjamin J. Guthrie|title=Statistics of the Congressional Elections of November 7, 1978|publisher=clerk.house.gov|accessdate=November 14, 2019}}</ref>

In 2008, Pearce did not seek a fourth term in the U.S. House but instead ran unsuccessfully for the [[United States Senate]] seat vacated by veteran Republican [[Pete Domenici]] of [[Albuquerque]]. Tinsley won a five-person Republican primary to succeed Pearce, but he lost the November 4 general election to the Democrat Harry Teague, an oilman from Hobbs, the first Democrat to win the post since 1978, the year that Domenici was elected to his second term as a senator.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://clerk.house.gov/member_info/electionInfo/1978election.pdf|author=Benjamin J. Guthrie|title=Statistics of the Congressional Elections of November 7, 1978|publisher=clerk.house.gov|accessdate=November 14, 2019}}</ref>