{"id":1369,"date":"2007-03-08T12:35:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-08T18:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/03\/chavez-says-wilson-won%e2%80%99t-win-another-n-m-election\/"},"modified":"2007-03-08T12:35:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-08T18:35:00","slug":"chavez-says-wilson-won%e2%80%99t-win-another-n-m-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/03\/chavez-says-wilson-won%e2%80%99t-win-another-n-m-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Ch\u00e1vez says Wilson won\u2019t win another N.M. election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RfBXmRXOu7I\/AAAAAAAABZ8\/R_4zEBk2GBM\/s1600-h\/Chavez,+Martin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RfBXmRXOu7I\/AAAAAAAABZ8\/R_4zEBk2GBM\/s200\/Chavez,+Martin.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5039624298035067826\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Albuquerque Mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabq.gov\/mayor\/\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Ch\u00e1vez<\/a> says U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/wilson.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a>, R-N.M., won\u2019t win another election in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:state st=\"on\">New   Mexico<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">His comments come in response to the growing scandal over allegations that Wilson and Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/domenici.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Domenici<\/a>, R-N.M., pressured former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to speed indictments in a public corruption scandal in time to sway voters in the November 2006 election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ch\u00e1vez was quoted today by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cqpolitics.com\/2007\/03\/new_mexico_measures_impact_of.html\" target=\"_blank\">Congressional Quarterly<\/a>, which is read by members of Congress and politicos in the nation\u2019s capital and beyond, on the impact the scandal will have on <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RfBXmRXOu8I\/AAAAAAAABaE\/Pn3r3yKS93U\/s1600-h\/Wilson,+Heather.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RfBXmRXOu8I\/AAAAAAAABaE\/Pn3r3yKS93U\/s200\/Wilson,+Heather.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5039624298035067842\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\u201cHeather Wilson will no longer be elected in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>,\u201d he said, adding that her actions were \u201creprehensible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I was also interviewed for and quoted in the article.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ch\u00e1vez is a prominent Democrat who is currently raising money for a potential 2010 gubernatorial run against Lt. Gov. Diane Denish. He has also expressed his interest in the Senate seat, but has said he won\u2019t run against Domenici.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He had been set up for a potential run against Wilson for Domenici\u2019s seat after the senator retires, but many analysts agree with Ch\u00e1vez that Wilson, who was re-elected last year by 861 votes out of more than 211,000, is weakened to the point that she is no longer a valid candidate for Senate and may not be able to hold her House seat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Ch\u00e1vez has ruled out running against <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Wilson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> for the House seat in 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albuquerque Mayor Martin Ch\u00e1vez says U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., won\u2019t win another election in New Mexico. His comments come in response to the growing scandal over allegations that Wilson and Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., pressured former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to speed indictments in a public corruption scandal in time to sway voters in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}