{"id":16473,"date":"2010-04-26T09:49:13","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=16473"},"modified":"2010-04-26T10:35:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T16:35:29","slug":"weh-martinez-missing-tonight%e2%80%99s-forum-in-elephant-butte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/04\/weh-martinez-missing-tonight%e2%80%99s-forum-in-elephant-butte\/","title":{"rendered":"Weh, Martinez missing Tuesday\u2019s forum in Elephant Butte"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7926\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7926\" title=\"Weh, Allen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/10\/Weh-Allen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Weh<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Most Republican candidates for three statewide offices will attend a forum Tuesday evening in Elephant Butte, but gubernatorial hopefuls <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allenweh2010.com\/\">Allen Weh<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/susanamartinez2010.com\/\">Susana Martinez<\/a> will be absent, event organizer Earl Greer said.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the third gubernatorial candidate forum in Southern New Mexico that Weh has missed in recent weeks. He skipped a gubernatorial candidate forum <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/04\/weh-isn%E2%80%99t-participating-in-las-cruces-debate\/\">in Las Cruces<\/a> earlier this month that the other four candidates attended. Weh and <a href=\"http:\/\/domeniciforgovernor.com\/\">Pete Domenici Jr.<\/a> missed a GOP gubernatorial candidate forum in Alamogordo a week before that.<\/p>\n<p>Weh campaign spokesman Christopher Sanchez said Weh, as of June 1, \u201cwill have participated in one dozen forums. Those he has missed were due to scheduling conflicts.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15323\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15323\" title=\"Martinez, Susana\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/Martinez-Susana1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susana Martinez<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Weh did attend an event in Las Cruces last weekend hosted by the Las Cruces TEA Party, and stated in a news release that he was \u201cthe only gubernatorial candidate to attend the forum.\u201d But he didn\u2019t mention in that release that he was the only gubernatorial candidate invited to the event. Each gubernatorial candidate is being invited to a different meeting of the group.<\/p>\n<p>Martinez\u2019s campaign didn\u2019t immediately respond to an e-mail asking why she won\u2019t be at Tuesday\u2019s forum in Elephant Butte.<\/p>\n<p>Greer said all candidates for governor other than Martinez and Weh have confirmed attendance, as have all GOP candidates for lieutenant governor and land commissioner, and two of four Public Regulation Commission candidates.<\/p>\n<p>The forum will be held at 6 p.m. at the Elephant Butte Community Center, <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&amp;source=s_q&amp;hl=en&amp;geocode=&amp;q=Elephant+Butte+Community+Center,+103+Rio+Grand+Street,+Elephant+Butte,+NM%E2%80%8E&amp;sll=33.153793,-107.232571&amp;sspn=0.103475,0.135956&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;hq=Elephant+Butte+Community+Center,+103+Rio+Grand+Street\">103 Rio Grand Street<\/a> in Elephant Butte.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update, 10:35 a.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Martinez\u2019s campaign manager said she cannot attend the Elephant Butte forum \u201cdue to a scheduling conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>A prior version of this posting incorrectly stated that the forum was tonight instead of Tuesday.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED: Most Republican candidates for three statewide offices will attend a forum Tuesday evening in Elephant Butte, but gubernatorial hopefuls Allen Weh and Susana Martinez will be absent, event organizer Earl Greer said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[108,107],"class_list":["post-16473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16473","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=16473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}