{"id":26166,"date":"2011-02-16T15:28:33","date_gmt":"2011-02-16T22:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=26166"},"modified":"2011-02-16T15:28:37","modified_gmt":"2011-02-16T22:28:37","slug":"welcome-to-the-fight-mr-foley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/02\/welcome-to-the-fight-mr-foley\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to the fight, Mr. Foley"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_26167\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-26167\" title=\"Bregman, Sam\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/02\/Bregman-Sam.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Bregman<\/p><\/div>\n<p>So, Dan Foley is back and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/02\/martinez-is-showing-leadership-dems-aren%E2%80%99t\/\" target=\"_blank\">thinks the governor did an outstanding job<\/a> during the gas crisis. She didn\u2019t,\u00a0and if she\u2019d done a great job, he wouldn\u2019t be attacking me.<\/p>\n<p>Fact:\u00a0Thousands of New Mexicans suffered and are still trying to recover from businesses forced to close and lives turned upside down. When a crisis hits, a governor activates a plan of action immediately and doesn\u2019t let a private company that caused\u00a0the crisis take charge.<\/p>\n<p>For Republicans, it\u2019s always, \u201cLarge corporations know best \u2013 they can do the job,\u00a0and who cares if it doesn\u2019t work?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There are new tests of leadership\u00a0coming for Governor Martinez.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Governor, will you continue to support Wal Mart and other large, out-of-state corporations that don\u2019t pay the same tax rate small businesses pay in New Mexico?\u00a0Legislation is being introduced to correct this injustice, and leadership is required.\u00a0Can you support our small businesses and show them some leadership?<\/p>\n<p>Governor, why\u00a0are you paying for education consulting when not one of the\u00a0consultants is a New Mexican?\u00a0Who knows better than New Mexican teachers and educators what the problems are and how to fix them?\u00a0Can you stand up for our teachers and show them some leadership?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and welcome to the fight, Mr. Foley.\u00a0You should slow down. It appears you are speeding! I am just getting warmed up!<\/p>\n<p><em>Bregman is a candidate for chairman of the <a href=\"http:\/\/nmdemocrats.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Democratic Party of New Mexico<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, Dan Foley is back and thinks the governor did an outstanding job during the gas crisis. She didn\u2019t, and if she\u2019d done a great job, he wouldn\u2019t be attacking me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2009,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,16],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-26166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-guest-columns","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26166","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\/2009"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}