{"id":4059,"date":"2008-12-11T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-11T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/12\/heather-wilsons-exit-interview\/"},"modified":"2008-12-11T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-11T20:04:00","slug":"heather-wilsons-exit-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/12\/heather-wilsons-exit-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Heather Wilson&#8217;s &#8216;exit interview&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SUFypbTD8qI\/AAAAAAAAJgk\/1Hn9gIl1QuE\/s1600-h\/Wilson,+Heather.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SUFypbTD8qI\/AAAAAAAAJgk\/1Hn9gIl1QuE\/s200\/Wilson,+Heather.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5278626294282842786\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Albuquerque Journal\u2019s Jim Scarantino has an interesting column today about his \u201cexit interview\u201d with outgoing U.S. Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/wilson.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Heather Wilson<\/a>, R-N.M.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The column by Scarantino, <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/search\/label\/Scarantino%20columns\">a former columnist for this site<\/a>, contains a few noteworthy tidbits, including Wilson\u2019s tears as she talked about laying a wreath in the Philippines at a cemetery honoring 56,000 missing soldiers and sailors, among them some from the 200th Coast Artillery of the New Mexico National Guard. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\"> <\/span>\u201c\u2018There\u2019s one plaque. \u2026 12 Garcias in a row. \u2026\u2019 Wilson remembers as she struggles for composure,\u201d Scarantino wrote.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Wilson also had some advice for the struggling state GOP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cStick to our core values of the centrality of family, the importance of free enterprise and a strong national defense, values shared by most New Mexicans,\u201d Scarantino quoted her as saying. \u201cAnd be squeaky clean. Things people do in Santa Fe would put people in Washington in jail. It\u2019s amazing to me the kind of self-dealing that seems to be standard practice in state government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Read Scarantino\u2019s column by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/opinion\/guest_columns\/1195151031opinionguestcolumns12-11-08.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Albuquerque Journal\u2019s Jim Scarantino has an interesting column today about his \u201cexit interview\u201d with outgoing U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M. The column by Scarantino, a former columnist for this site, contains a few noteworthy tidbits, including Wilson\u2019s tears as she talked about laying a wreath in the Philippines at a cemetery honoring 56,000 missing [&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-4059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059","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=4059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}