{"id":3765,"date":"2008-09-26T09:27:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-26T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/09\/cheney-cancels-appearance-at-tinsley-fundraiser\/"},"modified":"2008-09-26T09:27:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T15:27:00","slug":"cheney-cancels-appearance-at-tinsley-fundraiser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/09\/cheney-cancels-appearance-at-tinsley-fundraiser\/","title":{"rendered":"Cheney cancels appearance at Tinsley fundraiser"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This article has been updated.<\/p>\n

Vice president Dick Cheney<\/a> has cancelled a scheduled appearance at a fundraiser in Hobbs<\/st1:city> today for Republican 2nd Congressional District candidate Ed Tinsley<\/a> so he can stay in Washington<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> to help sell the bailout plan, the Associated Press<\/a> is reporting. <\/p>\n

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The plan is on the ropes after many congressional Republicans revolted against it late Thursday.<\/p>\n

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A Tinsley spokesman said a statement would move across the AP wire soon.<\/p>\n

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Meanwhile, the Democratic Party of New Mexico\u2019s counter to the Cheney fundraiser is still on. The party plans to hold a \u201cchange for change\u201d fundraiser for employees of K-BOB\u2019S<\/a>, Tinsley\u2019s business, in Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> at noon. They\u2019ll serve K-BOB\u2019s food and ask people to \u201cgive what they can, even change, to benefit Ed Tinsley\u2019s employees, who work for low wages without benefits,\u201d according to a news release from the party.<\/p>\n

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Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima<\/a> will be among those in attendance. The event will be held at Young<\/st1:placename> Park<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>, 1905 Nevada Ave.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Update, 10:25 a.m.<\/p>\n

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Tinsley released this statement:<\/p>\n

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\u201cVice President Cheney is right where he needs to be during this difficult financial time for our capital markets,\u201d he said. \u201cI know that he has meetings today with the president and other leaders to try to bring to the table a reasonable and acceptable plan to address the economic crisis we face together, as taxpayers and for our banking system. We are all at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cA \u2018rescue plan\u2019 could be outlined, agreed upon in principal and established soon to move forward. We all agree that time is of the essence, but of paramount importance is the respect and protection of our American taxpayers,\u201d Tinsley said. \u201cThere will be a critical vote in the Senate, and the vice president, in his Constitutional role, could be called upon at anytime to cast a tie-breaking vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Update, 2:55 p.m.<\/p>\n

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Tinsley spokesman Jim Pettit said this in response to the Democrats\u2019 Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> event:<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe Harry Teague<\/a> campaign (Teague is Tinsley\u2019s Democratic opponent) is using K-BOB\u2019S employees as a political prop while the country faces its biggest financial crisis since the Great Depression. We\u2019re glad that we can debate Harry Teague on the economy, and we\u2019d all be better served without political stunts that poke fun at hard-working people, thousands of whom have worked at K-BOB\u2019s since 1966. Oftentimes, these are people who are starting off in their first job, so it\u2019s not Ed Tinsley he\u2019s making fun of. He\u2019s making fun of people that do a lot of hard work.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This article has been updated. Vice president Dick Cheney has cancelled a scheduled appearance at a fundraiser in Hobbs today for Republican 2nd Congressional District candidate Ed Tinsley so he can stay in Washington to help sell the bailout plan, the Associated Press is reporting. The plan is on the ropes after many congressional Republicans […]<\/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-3765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765","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=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}