{"id":3859,"date":"2008-10-15T23:38:00","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T05:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/10\/gop-mailer-wrong-about-irwins-vote-on-death-penalty\/"},"modified":"2008-10-15T23:38:00","modified_gmt":"2008-10-16T05:38:00","slug":"gop-mailer-wrong-about-irwins-vote-on-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/10\/gop-mailer-wrong-about-irwins-vote-on-death-penalty\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP mailer wrong about Irwin&#8217;s vote on death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SPbUkV9QZtI\/AAAAAAAAJDk\/7B6Nm037GRc\/s1600-h\/Irwin,+Dona.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SPbUkV9QZtI\/AAAAAAAAJDk\/7B6Nm037GRc\/s200\/Irwin,+Dona.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5257623335836083922\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A recent mailer from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopnm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Republican Party of New Mexico<\/a> accuses state Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/legdetails.asp?Name=201&amp;Submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">Dona Irwin<\/a>, D-Deming, of opposing the death penalty and urges her constituents to vote against her in the Nov. 4 election.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Specifically, the mailer cites Irwin\u2019s vote on <a href=\"http:\/\/legis.state.nm.us\/lcs\/_session.asp?chamber=H&amp;type=++&amp;number=190&amp;Submit=Search&amp;year=07\" target=\"_blank\">House Bill 190<\/a> in 2007.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cDona Irwin opposes the death penalty,\u201d the mailer states. \u201c\u2026 Serial murders, copkillers and terrorists deserve the death penalty because of their gruesome and horrible acts. Our families just can\u2019t afford any more of Dona Irwin\u2019s dangerous policies in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Santa   Fe<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The problem is that the mailer is based on an inaccuracy. The bill, which would have abolished the death penalty, passed the House on a vote of 41-28. Irwin voted with the minority to uphold the death penalty. The bill died in the Senate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The state GOP had no comment on its inaccurate mailer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A recent mailer from the Republican Party of New Mexico accuses state Rep. Dona Irwin, D-Deming, of opposing the death penalty and urges her constituents to vote against her in the Nov. 4 election. Specifically, the mailer cites Irwin\u2019s vote on House Bill 190 in 2007. \u201cDona Irwin opposes the death penalty,\u201d the mailer states. [&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-3859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859","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=3859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}