{"id":518,"date":"2006-08-29T09:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-29T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/albuquerque-mayor-says-richardson-must-oppose-cockfighting-if-he-wants-to-be-president\/"},"modified":"2006-08-29T09:40:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-29T15:40:00","slug":"albuquerque-mayor-says-richardson-must-oppose-cockfighting-if-he-wants-to-be-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/albuquerque-mayor-says-richardson-must-oppose-cockfighting-if-he-wants-to-be-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Albuquerque mayor says Richardson must oppose cockfighting if he wants to be president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/RichardsonWatch.15.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/RichardsonWatch.14.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><st1:city st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:city>\u2019s mayor says Gov. Bill Richardson must oppose cockfighting or he can\u2019t be president of the <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:country-region st=\"on\">United States<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place>.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Mayor Martin Ch\u00e1vez told an animal welfare conference Monday that <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s wishy-washy stance on the controversial practice might kill his chance at being elected president, according to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/metro\/488118metro08-29-06.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cYou can\u2019t be president of the <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">United States<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> if you think cockfighting is a good thing,\u201d the Journal quoted Ch\u00e1vez as saying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Chavez%2C%20Martin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Chavez%2C%20Martin.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>It\u2019s the second time the mayor has gone after his party\u2019s leaders in recent days. About a week ago, he criticized Lt. Gov. Diane Denish after her driver parked illegally in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>. Many believe Ch\u00e1vez is preparing for another run at the governor\u2019s office in 2010.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Several months ago, <st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city> said on a visit to <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> that he has not made up his mind on whether cockfighting should be illegal, and said there are strong arguments on both sides. <st1:state st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:state> is one of only two states that don\u2019t outlaw cockfighting, but many subdivisions \u2013 including <st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename> and the City of <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> \u2013 ban the practice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s comments prompted Jay Leno to mock him and drew other national criticism.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> spokesman told the Journal Monday that the governor plans to deal with cockfighting in the upcoming session, but provided no specifics. A major push to ban cockfighting is expected when the Legislature convenes in January. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Albuquerque\u2019s mayor says Gov. Bill Richardson must oppose cockfighting or he can\u2019t be president of the United States. Mayor Martin Ch\u00e1vez told an animal welfare conference Monday that Richardson\u2019s wishy-washy stance on the controversial practice might kill his chance at being elected president, according to the Albuquerque Journal. \u201cYou can\u2019t be president of the United [&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-518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518","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=518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}