{"id":1742,"date":"2007-05-18T09:09:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T15:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/former-u-s-attorney-kelly-might-take-on-domenici\/"},"modified":"2007-05-18T09:09:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T15:09:00","slug":"former-u-s-attorney-kelly-might-take-on-domenici","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/former-u-s-attorney-kelly-might-take-on-domenici\/","title":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Attorney Kelly might take on Domenici"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I\u2019ve written a lot lately about the Democratic Party\u2019s inability to find a well-known candidate to take on U.S. Sen. <a href=\"http:\/\/domenici.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Domenici<\/a> next year. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqtrib.com\/news\/2007\/may\/17\/retired-generals-blast-wilson-latest-tv-ads\/\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Tribune<\/a> has the goods on one candidate who might jump into the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">John Kelly, who was the state\u2019s <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">U.S.<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> attorney under former President Clinton, said he\u2019s considering the race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI do feel obligated to consider it and I am going to look seriously at it,\u201d he told the Tribune.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That could make things interesting. We can expect Domenici to be hammered repeatedly for compromising the integrity of the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in his October 2006 call to former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias. Contrast those allegations of wrongdoing, which have resulted in a Senate ethics inquiry, with a man Democrats can portray as one who upheld the integrity of the office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Interesting\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve written a lot lately about the Democratic Party\u2019s inability to find a well-known candidate to take on U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici next year. The Albuquerque Tribune has the goods on one candidate who might jump into the race. John Kelly, who was the state\u2019s U.S. attorney under former President Clinton, said he\u2019s considering the [&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-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","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=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}