{"id":17759,"date":"2010-05-25T13:07:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T19:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=17759"},"modified":"2010-05-25T13:07:54","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T19:07:54","slug":"martinez-softens-rhetoric-against-denish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/05\/martinez-softens-rhetoric-against-denish\/","title":{"rendered":"Martinez softens rhetoric against Denish"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17000\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17000\" title=\"Martinez, Susana\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Martinez-Susana.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Susana Martinez<\/p><\/div>\n<p>After being called out last week for falsely saying Lt. Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianedenish.com\/\">Diane Denish<\/a> has done nothing to combat corruption, Republican gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.susanamartinez2010.com\/\">Susana Martinez<\/a> is toning down the rhetoric a bit, now saying Denish has \u201cfailed to lead on the issue of corruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The shift comes after NMPolitics.net called Martinez out on Friday for falsely claiming that Denish has done nothing to stand up to corruption, \u201cnot even a whisper.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/05\/denish-has-stood-up-against-corruption\/\">As I wrote last week<\/a>, Denish played an integral role in standing up to corruption in the state\u2019s housing authority system and in winning legislative approval of reform of the system.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s today\u2019s statement from Martinez that contains the new rhetoric:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cFor seven plus years, Lieutenant Governor Diane Denish has been part of an administration that has wasted taxpayer dollars, defrauded New Mexico citizens and abused the public trust.\u00a0Now, as a gubernatorial candidate, Denish believes voters will ignore the fact that she failed to lead on the issue of corruption. As governor, I will put a stop to the nonsense and identify the corruption, remove it and my administration will hold to account those who have broken the law.\u00a0Denish can claim anything she wants, but New Mexico voters understand that I am the candidate who will deliver bold change and get our state back on track.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The statement comes in response to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianedenish.com\/multimedia\/video?id=0011\">a new Denish ad<\/a> that highlights the role the lieutenant governor \u2013 who is now the Democratic nominee for governor \u2013 played in reform of the housing authority system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After being called out last week for falsely saying Lt. Gov. Diane Denish has done nothing to combat corruption, Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez is toning down the rhetoric a bit, now saying Denish has \u201cfailed to lead on the issue of corruption.\u201d<\/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":[108,152,107],"class_list":["post-17759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-housing-authority-scandal","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17759","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=17759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}