{"id":39635,"date":"2012-05-07T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-07T15:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=39635"},"modified":"2012-05-07T09:36:05","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T15:36:05","slug":"reject-super-pac-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2012\/05\/reject-super-pac-lies\/","title":{"rendered":"Reject super PAC lies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_39636\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 120px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-39636\" title=\"Valente-Compton, Cara\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Valente-Compton-Cara.jpg\" alt=\"Cara Valente-Compton\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cara Valente-Compton<\/p><\/div>\n<h4>Recently a shadowy outside group attacked me with outright lies. To be clear, I\u2019m a lifelong Democrat and I ask you to reject these vile attacks.<\/h4>\n<p>When I decided to run against longtime, entrenched incumbent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=HSTAP\" target=\"_blank\">Sheryl Williams Stapleton<\/a>, I set out to change the tone in Santa Fe and restore civility to the process.<\/p>\n<p>I knew it would be a hard-fought race. As a regular citizen, wife, mother of four and law student I was going up against a longtime power broker who would do anything to stay in power. People warned me that I would be called names, attacked, my character distorted and smeared \u2013 and that desperate people will do anything they can to keep power.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a shadowy outside group called the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.independentsourcepac.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Independent\u00a0Source PAC<\/a>, a\u00a0super PAC created out of the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s Citizen United decision, <a href=\"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/Documents\/ISPACAttackonValente-Compton.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">attacked me<\/a> with outright lies.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Worse, they attacked a friend of 24 years with smears against his character using distortions and guilt by association to attack me. This is outrageous, and I call on all citizens of New Mexico to reject these \u201cKarl Rove\u201d like dirty tricks.<\/p>\n<p>As a lifelong Democrat who has 25 years of working for Democratic campaigns and issues, recently for the Democratic Party of New Mexico as well as Senator Tom Udall\u2019s campaign in 2008, I will be a strong advocate for working families, affordable health care, public schools and a woman\u2019s right to choose.<\/p>\n<p>I ask you to reject these vile attacks from my opponent and her surrogates and keep rogue super PACs from trying to tamper with this district\u2019s vote.<\/p>\n<p>We need to change the destructive tone in politics and work to get things done.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/electvalentecompton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Valente-Compton<\/a>, a Democrat, is a candidate for the District 19 seat in the N.M. House.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently a shadowy outside group attacked me with outright lies. To be clear, I\u2019m a lifelong Democrat and I ask you to reject these vile attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2766,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192,16],"tags":[156,107],"class_list":["post-39635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-guest-columns","tag-2012-election","tag-roundhouse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39635","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\/2766"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}