{"id":4965,"date":"2008-05-19T00:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T06:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/wiviott-goes-negative-in-tv-ad-attacking-lujan-3\/"},"modified":"2008-05-19T00:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T06:45:00","slug":"wiviott-goes-negative-in-tv-ad-attacking-lujan-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/05\/wiviott-goes-negative-in-tv-ad-attacking-lujan-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Wiviott goes negative in TV ad attacking Luj\u00e1n"},"content":{"rendered":"

Democratic 3rd Congressional District candidate Don Wiviott<\/a> went negative over the weekend with a TV ad hitting primary opponent Ben R. Luj\u00e1n<\/a> as a do-nothing politician who earns a hefty paycheck simply because his father is the speaker of the state House.<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s the ad, which began airing on Saturday:<\/p>\n

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\u201cMost New Mexicans work hard to make it on their own. Not Ben Ray Lujan Jr.,\u201d the ad states. \u201cLujan was a blackjack dealer in Las Vegas<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> before his famous father got him a state job. Now Lujan makes $90,000, but he didn\u2019t show up to 13 of the 14 meetings of the health commission.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cLujan Jr. doesn\u2019t even show up,\u201d the ad states.<\/p>\n

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The ad then calls Wiviott \u201cthe better choice\u201d and identifies him as \u201ca successful homebuilder, community leader and former union member.\u201d<\/p>\n

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In an e-mail to supporters, Luj\u00e1n campaign manager Carlos Trujillo called Wiviott\u2019s ad \u201cfalse and misleading\u201d but didn\u2019t explain why it\u2019s false and misleading. Still, he called the ad a \u201cRepublican Swift Boat-style smear campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe always knew this was coming. Ben\u2019s the frontrunner with the support of the people,\u201d Trujillo<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> said in the e-mail. \u201cOur opponent\u2019s only way to win this campaign is to personally attack Ben through shady mail pieces and misleading television ads.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The ad then asks for donations, saying giving money will help people \u201cstand up for Ben Ray Luj\u00e1n against Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:State> multimillionaire developer Don and his deceptive personal attacks.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Democratic 3rd Congressional District candidate Don Wiviott went negative over the weekend with a TV ad hitting primary opponent Ben R. Luj\u00e1n as a do-nothing politician who earns a hefty paycheck simply because his father is the speaker of the state House. Here\u2019s the ad, which began airing on Saturday: \u201cMost New Mexicans work hard […]<\/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-4965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965","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=4965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4965\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}