{"id":4674,"date":"2009-06-22T00:22:00","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T06:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/republicans-comment-on-housing-indictments\/"},"modified":"2009-11-16T22:09:17","modified_gmt":"2009-11-17T05:09:17","slug":"republicans-comment-on-housing-indictments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/06\/republicans-comment-on-housing-indictments\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans comment on housing indictments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Sj8jTdg66NI\/AAAAAAAALy8\/8wcM8FFsXa4\/s1600-h\/GOP.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 105px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Sj8jTdg66NI\/AAAAAAAALy8\/8wcM8FFsXa4\/s200\/GOP.JPG\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350033699586631890\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2009\/06\/housing-authority-indictments-are.html\">Friday\u2019s indictments<\/a> in the housing authority scandal revealed \u201canother dark day for New Mexicans,\u201d potential Republican gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/allenweh2010.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Allen Weh<\/a> said in a statement released by his campaign.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Weh was one of two Republicans who were quick to put out statements in response to the indictments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cEntrenched politicians who abuse their positions and our tax dollars have once again given all of us a black eye. Corruption at the highest levels of government will be the biggest issue in the 2010 campaign,\u201d Weh said. \u201cIt\u2019s time to elect leaders who will work with the attorney general, the U.S. attorney and all law enforcement agencies to root out corruption at every level. If I\u2019m governor, you better believe I\u2019m going to clean house.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The second statement came from Harvey Yates Jr., chairman of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopnm.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Republican Party of New Mexico<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThis indictment reinforces a growing sentiment that we need to reverse the path on which this state is headed,\u201d Yates said. \u201cFor far too long, self-serving political insiders have exploited, at taxpayers\u2019 expense, their positions for personal or political gain.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday\u2019s indictments in the housing authority scandal revealed \u201canother dark day for New Mexicans,\u201d potential Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh said in a statement released by his campaign. Weh was one of two Republicans who were quick to put out statements in response to the indictments. \u201cEntrenched politicians who abuse their positions and our tax [&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":[152],"class_list":["post-4674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-housing-authority-scandal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674","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=4674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}