{"id":593,"date":"2006-09-19T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-19T16:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/09\/politicos-trying-web-sites-that-attack-opponents\/"},"modified":"2006-09-19T10:19:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-19T16:19:00","slug":"politicos-trying-web-sites-that-attack-opponents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/09\/politicos-trying-web-sites-that-attack-opponents\/","title":{"rendered":"Politicos trying Web sites that attack opponents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The newest trend in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:state st=\"on\">New   Mexico<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> politics seems to be creating Web sites that attack the other side.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A couple of weeks ago, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gopnm.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Republican Party<\/a> of <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> revealed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmforsale.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">New Mexico For Sale<\/a>, a blog devoted, according to the site, \u201c<span style=\"\" lang=\"EN\">to exposing and critiquing corruption in our state government. We archive and keep track of articles, police reports and judicial decisions relating to government intimidation, cronyism, extortion, voter fraud, negligence, and media bias. National security is also a great concern to us.\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN\">It\u2019s an obviously conservative blog that attacks almost exclusively Democrats, though it did report the news last week that U.S. Rep. Bob Ney, R-Ohio, pleaded guilty to corruption charges stemming from the Jack Abramoff scandal.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN\">The site draws on other news sources and provides biting commentary about politicos and journalists the Republican Party perceives as acting in a less-than-ethical manner. The site has also been quick to praise Republicans the party wants to promote.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN\">There\u2019s also a new Web site, run by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicaltechnologies.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Political Technologies, Inc.<\/a>, aimed at discrediting state Land Commissioner Pat Lyons, a Republican. The company\u2019s goal, according to its Web site, is to \u201cuse innovation and creativity to help Democrats win elections.\u201d The company\u2019s president is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politicaltechnologies.com\/Muller%20Resume.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Philip Muller<\/a>, who ran the direct-mail campaign in this year\u2019s primary for <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Lyons<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019 general election opponent, Democrat Jim Baca.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN\">The site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lyonswatch.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">LyonsWatch.com<\/a>, calls President George Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and Lyons \u201cthree peas in a pod\u201d and contains information aimed at convincing readers that <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Lyons<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is owned by Big Oil and Gas and other special interests.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN\">The sites don\u2019t attempt to hide their ties to biased parties, and most visitors won\u2019t be fooled into believing they are independent. Both sites do a decent job of providing factual information \u2013 spun, of course, to make their arguments.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\" lang=\"EN\">I don\u2019t think either site will convince many undecideds to vote a certain way, but they might help ignite base voters.<o:p><\/o:p><\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newest trend in New Mexico politics seems to be creating Web sites that attack the other side. A couple of weeks ago, the Republican Party of New Mexico revealed New Mexico For Sale, a blog devoted, according to the site, \u201cto exposing and critiquing corruption in our state government. We archive and keep track [&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-593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593","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=593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}