{"id":343,"date":"2006-07-06T13:01:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/07\/bingaman-dodges-question-about-end-of-domenici-richardson-truce\/"},"modified":"2006-07-06T13:01:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-06T19:01:00","slug":"bingaman-dodges-question-about-end-of-domenici-richardson-truce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/07\/bingaman-dodges-question-about-end-of-domenici-richardson-truce\/","title":{"rendered":"Bingaman dodges question about end of Domenici, Richardson truce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Bingaman%2C%20Jeff.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Bingaman%2C%20Jeff.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.swickard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Swickard<\/a> put Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., in a tough spot on his radio show this morning.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Swickard asked what Bingaman thought of the recent end to the long-standing truce between Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democrat, and Sen. Pete Domenici, a Republican.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Here\u2019s the short version: <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> believes Domenici was involved in the recent move by the Republican Party to replace his opponent in the gubernatorial race, then J.R. Damron, with fireball John Dendahl. Dendahl has said a Domenici staffer was involved. Because of that, <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is actively seeking a Democrat to run against Domenici in two years, and has asked Lieutenant Gov. Diane Denish to consider it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Before this, the two political powerhouses had always stayed out of each other\u2019s races.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Bingaman started by saying he thinks Dendahl has paid his dues to the Republican Party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI think he\u2019s earned the right to be the Republican nominee for governor,\u201d Bingaman told Swickard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He wouldn\u2019t say much more. Bingaman and Domenici have a better working relationship than most of opposing parties in Congress.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI can\u2019t be in the business of commenting on the politics between Domenici and Richardson,\u201d Bingaman said. \u201cI wish them both well, just as long as they leave me alone, which they both have.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Swickard put Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., in a tough spot on his radio show this morning. Swickard asked what Bingaman thought of the recent end to the long-standing truce between Gov. Bill Richardson, a Democrat, and Sen. Pete Domenici, a Republican. Here\u2019s the short version: Richardson believes Domenici was involved in the recent move [&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-343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343","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=343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}