{"id":17745,"date":"2010-05-25T11:53:17","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T17:53:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=17745"},"modified":"2010-05-25T11:53:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T17:53:18","slug":"weh-backed-white-in-2008-congressional-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/05\/weh-backed-white-in-2008-congressional-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Weh backed White in 2008 congressional primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11804\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11804 \" title=\"Weh, Allen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/Weh-Allen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"236\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Allen Weh<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Republican gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allenweh2010.com\/\">Allen Weh<\/a> has made a big fuss about state GOP Chairman Harvey Yates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/05\/gop-chairman-calls-out-weh-over-%e2%80%98misleading%e2%80%99-ads\/\">inserting himself into the race<\/a> by calling Weh\u2019s ads dishonest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe chairman\u2019s biased interference in a primary contest is harmful to the Republican Party and wrong for our state,\u201d Weh Campaign Manager Whitney Cheshire said Sunday in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>But when Weh was state party chairman, he inserted himself into a GOP primary race more directly than Yates has done in this instance.<\/p>\n<p>When Darren White and Joe Carraro were both running for the GOP nomination for the Albuquerque-area 1st Congressional District seat in Congress, Weh personally gave White\u2019s campaign money. Under Weh\u2019s leadership, the state GOP gave White money too.<\/p>\n<p>Federal records show that Weh gave $2,300 to White\u2019s campaign on March 18, 2008. And the state GOP gave White $5,000 on June 2 of that year \u2013 the day before the primary.<\/p>\n<p>Weh and the state GOP weren\u2019t alone in taking sides in that primary. The <a href=\"http:\/\/nrcc.org\/\">National Republican Congressional Committee<\/a> backed White too, as part of an intentional effort among the party infrastructure in New Mexico and Washington to help the candidate they viewed as most likely to win the general election.<\/p>\n<p>White went on to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/06\/heinrich-white-to-face-off-in-cd1-general-election\/\">easily defeat Carraro<\/a> in the primary, but he lost to Democrat <a href=\"http:\/\/heinrich.house.gov\/\">Martin Heinrich<\/a> in the general election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh has made a big fuss about state GOP Chairman Harvey Yates inserting himself into the race by calling Weh\u2019s ads dishonest. But when Weh was party chairman, he took sides in a GOP primary by giving campaign contributions.<\/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":[162,108,107],"class_list":["post-17745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2008-election","tag-2010-election","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17745","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=17745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}