{"id":5968,"date":"2009-09-09T23:01:10","date_gmt":"2009-09-10T05:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=5968"},"modified":"2009-09-09T23:01:10","modified_gmt":"2009-09-10T05:01:10","slug":"weh-won%e2%80%99t-dignify-iglesias-column-with-a-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/09\/weh-won%e2%80%99t-dignify-iglesias-column-with-a-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Weh &#8216;won\u2019t dignify&#8217; Iglesias column with a response"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5734\" title=\"Weh, Allen\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/09\/Weh-Allen.jpg\" alt=\"Weh, Allen\" width=\"120\" height=\"160\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Republican gubernatorial candidate <a href=\"http:\/\/allenweh2010.com\/\">Allen Weh<\/a> doesn\u2019t have much to say about <a href=\"..\/2009\/09\/weh-may-be-out-of-touch-with-reality-or-worse\/\">a hard-hitting commentary<\/a> from former U.S. Attorney <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/David_Iglesias_%28attorney%29\">David Iglesias<\/a> that was published on this site earlier today.<\/p>\n<p>Offered the chance to respond to Iglesias, Weh\u2019s campaign released only this prepared statement from the candidate:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThere have been some recent personal attacks made against my candidacy, which I won\u2019t dignify by discussing other than to repeat what I have said on several occasions: I will criticize any official &#8212; Republican or Democrat &#8212; who doesn\u2019t measure up to the standards expected of them. And I\u2019ll be just as aggressive in removing mediocre government officials when I\u2019m elected governor.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The chain of events started Friday when <a href=\"..\/2009\/09\/was-weh-really-taking-on-his-party-over-iglesias\/\">I critiqued Weh\u2019s recent statement<\/a> that he was \u201ctaking on my own party\u201d in working to get Iglesias fired. The situation has also received some attention from the national news Web site <a href=\"http:\/\/tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com\/2009\/09\/goper_who_helped_oust_iglesias_claims_he_was_bucking_his_party.php\">Talking Points Memo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh doesn\u2019t have much to say about a hard-hitting commentary from former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias that was published on this site earlier today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1],"tags":[108,107,131],"class_list":["post-5968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","category-uncategorized","tag-2010-election","tag-roundhouse","tag-u-s-attorney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968","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=5968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}