{"id":18488,"date":"2010-06-11T06:00:23","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=18488"},"modified":"2010-06-14T00:14:27","modified_gmt":"2010-06-14T06:14:27","slug":"denish-rejects-martinez%e2%80%99s-truce-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2010\/06\/denish-rejects-martinez%e2%80%99s-truce-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"Denish rejects Martinez\u2019s truce offer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Susana Martinez (left, courtesy photo) and Diane Denish (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n

The fighting between the Democratic and Republican candidates for governor and the spinning of the facts continued on Thursday, this time in an offer of a truce from Republican Susana Martinez<\/a> and a sharp rejection from Democrat Diane Denish<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The latest back-and-forth started with an e-mail<\/a> from Martinez Campaign Manager Adam Deguire to Denish Campaign Manager Oren Shur.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith so much at stake, Susana Martinez believes that New Mexicans deserve a substantive debate about the most important issues confronting our state,\u201d Deguire\u2019s e-mail states. \u201c\u2026 \u00a0Unfortunately, your campaign began attacking Susana the day after the primary election concluded with a negative ad, which has been proven to be false. We are setting the record straight on the crime issue and will never allow false attacks to go unanswered.\u201d<\/p>\n

Deguire went on to propose that the campaigns \u201ccommit to only positive advertising through at least the end of July. There will be plenty of time to have a healthy debate about the differences between the candidates this fall.\u201d<\/p>\n

Shur was quick to reply with his own e-mail<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst, this stunt is blatantly disingenuous given that Susana Martinez has been attacking Diane Denish\u2019s record and character nearly every day for the past six months,\u201d he wrote. \u201cIn addition, the timing is ironic given that just yesterday you launched a negative ad that a reporter has appropriately called \u2018misleading\u2019 and \u2018quite a leap.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Shur went on to write that Denish has been offering substantive proposals while Martinez was attacking, and said it\u2019s \u201cremarkably hypocritical for you to suggest that\u00a0voters\u00a0don\u2019t also deserve to know about the candidates\u2019 records.\u00a0Ms. Martinez may not want New Mexicans to know the truth about her record, but that hasn\u2019t stopped her from attacking Diane Denish each and every day.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cutting through the spin<\/h3>\n

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Now some facts. Shur is right that Martinez has been criticizing Denish for months. She\u2019s done it on this site more than once, with her first critical guest column coming in September<\/a>. But Martinez has also been talking about substantive issues. In guest columns on this site, she talked in detail about energy policy<\/a> and law enforcement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And while Denish has also been talking about substantive issues like cutting government<\/a>, opposing the food tax<\/a> and ethics reform<\/a>, her party has been lobbing bombs at Martinez since before she was the GOP nominee for governor (here<\/a> and here<\/a> are examples).<\/p>\n

Deguire\u2019s e-mail implies that Denish started the fight after Martinez won the primary, but the reality is that it\u2019s been going on long before that. Martinez probably did start it months ago. And while Deguire states that \u201cWe are setting the record straight on the crime issue and will never allow false attacks to go unanswered,\u201d he fails to mention that the Martinez campaign has done more than respond to false attacks since the primary \u2013 it\u2019s launched its own misleading attack against Denish.<\/p>\n

Shur\u2019s e-mail states that the timing of Deguire\u2019s offer is \u201cironic\u201d because it comes after \u201ca reporter\u201d \u2013 he\u2019s referring to me \u2013 called Martinez\u2019s new ad \u201cquite a leap.\u201d What Shur failed to mention is that, in the article he\u2019s referring to, I called out Martinez and Denish both<\/a> for misleading spin.<\/p>\n

Both campaigns have made misleading statements. Both are contributing to the fighting. It doesn\u2019t look like it\u2019s going to stop anytime soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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