{"id":1678,"date":"2007-05-04T07:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-04T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/domenici-cant-seem-to-get-a-break\/"},"modified":"2007-05-04T07:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-04T13:59:00","slug":"domenici-cant-seem-to-get-a-break","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/domenici-cant-seem-to-get-a-break\/","title":{"rendered":"Domenici can&#8217;t seem to get a break"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rjs8aMC6zDI\/AAAAAAAACOY\/WX3XzSgWtSY\/s1600-h\/Domenici,+Pete.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rjs8aMC6zDI\/AAAAAAAACOY\/WX3XzSgWtSY\/s200\/Domenici,+Pete.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5060705026888617010\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/domenici.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Domenici<\/a> just can\u2019t get a break. Already under fire for his role in the <st1:country-region st=\"on\">U.S.<\/st1:country-region> attorney scandal, he was slammed by a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601039&#038;refer=columnist_carlson&amp;sid=aX.TbrMEeZIE\" target=\"_blank\">Bloomberg.com<\/a> columnist yesterday for arriving late to the funeral of a <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:state st=\"on\">Washington<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> lobbyist.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jack_Valenti\" target=\"_blank\">Jack Valenti\u2019s<\/a> funeral on Tuesday, former Time magazine White House correspondent Margaret Carlson wrote, Domenici arrived 20 minutes late.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It was the exact moment the funeral procession began.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cLike most senators, Domenici isn\u2019t used to waiting even for the deceased,\u201d Carlson wrote. \u201cHe turned sideways to gauge whether he could squeeze past the remains of Valenti, a former Hollywood lobbyist. If it weren\u2019t for pallbearers twice his size, he might have. In a church packed with the likes of Steven Spielberg and Michael Douglas, Domenici marched toward the altar, presuming someone would make room for him. Someone did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">She wrote that the incident \u201cis a reminder of how people in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> comport themselves as if the rules don\u2019t apply to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThat mindset has Domenici in hot water trying to explain away a call to David Iglesias,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Harsh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici just can\u2019t get a break. Already under fire for his role in the U.S. attorney scandal, he was slammed by a Bloomberg.com columnist yesterday for arriving late to the funeral of a Washington lobbyist. At Jack Valenti\u2019s funeral on Tuesday, former Time magazine White House correspondent Margaret Carlson wrote, Domenici arrived [&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-1678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678","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=1678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}