{"id":4621,"date":"2009-06-03T15:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-03T21:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/weh-to-travel-the-state-to-meet-with-business-leaders\/"},"modified":"2009-06-03T15:44:00","modified_gmt":"2009-06-03T21:44:00","slug":"weh-to-travel-the-state-to-meet-with-business-leaders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/weh-to-travel-the-state-to-meet-with-business-leaders\/","title":{"rendered":"Weh to travel the state to meet with business leaders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SibvnkJXfAI\/AAAAAAAALtk\/ZVnG65mARws\/s1600-h\/Weh,+Allen.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SibvnkJXfAI\/AAAAAAAALtk\/ZVnG65mARws\/s200\/Weh,+Allen.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5343221470918573058\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Potential 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Allen_Weh\" target=\"_blank\">Allen Weh<\/a> announced today that he\u2019s traveling the state in the next two weeks to talk with business leaders and small-business owners about the economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI want to hear about their struggles in keeping jobs, but I also want to hear about what they want done in the future,\u201d he said in a news release. \u201cFor the last eight years, Bill Richardson and Diane Denish have shackled New Mexico businesses with taxes that are higher than our bordering states, as well as excessive, often irrational, regulations. All of this combined drives business away from New Mexico and costs our economy jobs. It\u2019s time to think different.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Weh, who has <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/weh-forms-gubernatorial-exploratory.html\">formed an exploratory committee<\/a> as he considers running for governor, will visit 26 New Mexico counties and travel 2,500 miles, according to the news release. No additional details were released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"> Weh isn\u2019t the first Republican who\u2019s active in the gubernatorial race to travel the state to talk about issues. Though he hasn\u2019t publicized his travels in advance like Weh is, <a href=\"http:\/\/zanettiforgovernor.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Zanetti<\/a>, the only declared Republican candidate, has been traveling the state for weeks to talk with business leaders, GOP activists, journalists and others <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/05\/looking-through-fog-zanetti-wants-to.html\">about his candidacy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The only declared Democratic candidate is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dianedenish.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Denish<\/a>, the lieutenant governor. Senate Majority Leader <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmlegis.gov\/lcs\/legdetails.aspx?SPONCODE=SSANC\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Sanchez<\/a> says he\u2019s formed <a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/sanchez-says-hes-formed-guv-exploratory.html\">an exploratory committee<\/a> as he considers challenging Denish for the nomination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Potential 2010 Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh announced today that he\u2019s traveling the state in the next two weeks to talk with business leaders and small-business owners about the economy. \u201cI want to hear about their struggles in keeping jobs, but I also want to hear about what they want done in the future,\u201d he [&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-4621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621","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=4621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}