{"id":390,"date":"2006-07-20T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-20T17:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/07\/richardson-says-dendahl-started-negative-attacks\/"},"modified":"2006-07-20T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-20T17:53:00","slug":"richardson-says-dendahl-started-negative-attacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/07\/richardson-says-dendahl-started-negative-attacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson says Dendahl started negative attacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Richardson%2C%20Bill.40.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Richardson%2C%20Bill.36.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Gov. Bill Richardson took issue today with me saying he started the negative campaigning in the gubernatorial race.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Along with Do\u00f1a Ana County Commissioner Bill McCamley, I was a guest host on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.swickard.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Swickard<\/a> radio show this morning, and interviewed the governor. I asked the Democrat about his campaign\u2019s decision to air a negative ad days after Republican John Dendahl jumped into the gubernatorial race last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> pointed out that Dendahl, for several years before becoming a candidate, repeatedly attacked him in a column he wrote for three state newspapers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cHis whole life is attacking me,\u201d <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> said. \u201cThis stuff about me being the first to go negative, that\u2019s hardly the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> also defended the radio ad, which essentially called Dendahl a liar and deceiver and suggested that Dendahl orchestrated the closed-door switcheroo that resulted in him being on the ballot after J.R. Damron dropped out of the gubernatorial race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cIt\u2019s a factual ad,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said. \u201cYou have to point out the questionable way that he put himself on the ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said he\u2019s not yet declaring victory, though several national publications have called his re-election a fact. When asked about rumors that his campaign wants 60 percent of the vote in November, <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> pointed out that he received 56 percent in 2002, and said he\u2019ll be happy to get that again.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But, he said, he expects the national Republican Party to pump a lot of money into Dendahl\u2019s campaign late in the game. He pointed out that the Damron\/Dendahl switcheroo took place on a weekend that President Bush and Karl Rove visited <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. I asked if he believes they were involved in it, and <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said he does not know. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson took issue today with me saying he started the negative campaigning in the gubernatorial race. Along with Do\u00f1a Ana County Commissioner Bill McCamley, I was a guest host on the Michael Swickard radio show this morning, and interviewed the governor. I asked the Democrat about his campaign\u2019s decision to air a negative [&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-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","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=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}