{"id":4243,"date":"2009-02-13T16:18:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-13T22:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/02\/kilmer-meeting-with-political-operatives-in-dc\/"},"modified":"2009-02-13T16:18:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-13T22:18:00","slug":"kilmer-meeting-with-political-operatives-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/02\/kilmer-meeting-with-political-operatives-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Kilmer meeting with political operatives in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SZXx9_LiOGI\/AAAAAAAAK2k\/OAocXtFcGYo\/s1600-h\/Kilmer,+Val.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SZXx9_LiOGI\/AAAAAAAAK2k\/OAocXtFcGYo\/s200\/Kilmer,+Val.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302410183532755042\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.valekilmer.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Val Kilmer<\/a> has apparently been meeting with political operatives in Washington this week, and there\u2019s a lot of speculation that he\u2019s looking for staffers to work on his potential 2010 gubernatorial campaign in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I wrote <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/02\/kilmer-continues-politicking-with-dc.html\">earlier this week<\/a> that Kilmer was in Washington to visit with some members of the New Mexico congressional delegation and attend a speech on American Indian issues. In addition, sources with knowledge of the situation confirmed, someone representing Kilmer set up meetings between the actor and some operatives in the D.C.-area that were held this week.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Then there\u2019s this from Washington blogger Joshua Baca, who keeps an eye on issues related to New Mexico:<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cMy sources tell me that Val Kilmer was dining this morning at the Royal Restaurant &#8212; a local breakfast diner in Alexandria, Virginia,\u201d Baca wrote in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.beltwaybaca.com\/2009\/02\/batman-sighting.html\" target=\"_blank\">a Thursday posting on his site<\/a>. \u201cThis time, however, he wasn\u2019t dressed as Batman, rather dressed in a suit and tie, chatting with two other gentlemen in suits and ties.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cCould he be in the market for a Democratic consultant or operative?\u201d Baca asks. \u201cPerhaps. The Royal Diner is commonly known as the place to get coffee with political operatives in Old Town. And, there are some local shops in the area. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpsmedia.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Murphy Putnam Media<\/a> comes to mind as does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msastrategies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">McMahon Squire and Associates<\/a>. Both are major Democratic consulting groups in the beltway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">My sources think Baca\u2019s speculation is right on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Val Kilmer has apparently been meeting with political operatives in Washington this week, and there\u2019s a lot of speculation that he\u2019s looking for staffers to work on his potential 2010 gubernatorial campaign in New Mexico. I wrote earlier this week that Kilmer was in Washington to visit with some members of the New Mexico congressional [&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-4243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243","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=4243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}