{"id":388,"date":"2006-07-20T04:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T10:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/07\/land-commissioner-spat-comes-to-an-end\/"},"modified":"2006-07-20T04:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T10:20:00","slug":"land-commissioner-spat-comes-to-an-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/07\/land-commissioner-spat-comes-to-an-end\/","title":{"rendered":"Land commissioner spat comes to an end"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Lyons%2C%20Pat.4.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Lyons%2C%20Pat.4.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Land Commissioner Pat Lyons fired what I\u2019m going to call the final shot in the back-and-forth attacks this week on my blog, but not before a conservation group got involved in the fray.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Lyons<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019 campaign responded to challenger Jim Baca\u2019s accusations that he is owned by special interest groups by saying Baca \u201cis clearly angry that these industries don\u2019t support him. He would be singing an entirely different tune if the money was rolling into his account.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Baca%2C%20Jim.17.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Baca%2C%20Jim.12.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Democrat Baca started the attacks earlier this week by releasing an analysis of Republican Lyon\u2019s campaign contributions that showed he has taken hundreds of thousands of dollars from development and oil and gas companies. Baca said <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Lyons<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is selling the land office to special interest groups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In response, <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Lyons<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said he is business friendly and Baca is antagonistic. Baca\u2019s response was that <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Lyons<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is \u201cspecial-interest\u201d friendly and he is independent, not antagonistic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">One statement by <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Lyons<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> created another stir. He said earlier this week that he was \u201csingled out by the New Mexico Wildlife Federation for my continuous support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Jeremy Vesbach, executive director of the foundation, e-mailed me to say that \u201cin no time during his tenure as commissioner of public lands has Patrick Lyons been \u2018singled out by the New Mexico Wildlife Federation\u2019 for his \u2018support.\u2019 \u2026 We do not endorse candidates for office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Lyons<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019 campaign responded this way: \u201cNever was it said that the wildlife federation \u2018endorsed\u2019 Pat during his tenure (as land commissioner). He was recognized during his work as a state senator. \u2026 When Commissioner Lyons served in the Senate, they named him \u2018Legislator of the Year.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That\u2019s it. I\u2019m putting an end to this fight on my blog.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Land Commissioner Pat Lyons fired what I\u2019m going to call the final shot in the back-and-forth attacks this week on my blog, but not before a conservation group got involved in the fray. Lyons\u2019 campaign responded to challenger Jim Baca\u2019s accusations that he is owned by special interest groups by saying Baca \u201cis clearly angry [&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-388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388","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=388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}