{"id":736,"date":"2006-10-18T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-18T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/dendahl-goes-on-attack-during-tv-interview\/"},"modified":"2006-10-18T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-18T15:08:00","slug":"dendahl-goes-on-attack-during-tv-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/dendahl-goes-on-attack-during-tv-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Dendahl goes on attack during TV interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Republican gubernatorial candidate John Dendahl used his half-hour interview with the news anchors for KOB-TV<\/a> in Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> to trash Gov. Bill Richardson, the commuter rail and public funding of the spaceport Tuesday night, according to news accounts. <\/p>\n

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Democratic congressional candidate Al Kissling received hardly a mention in the media, so I can\u2019t tell you a thing about his time.<\/p>\n

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Both got free air time after their opponents refused to debate.<\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>Dendahl, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican<\/a>, thanked KOB for the airtime, to which anchor Carla Aragon said, \u201cIt\u2019s a service to the voters,\u201d contrasting statements by the Richardson<\/st1:city> campaign that a debate that included Dendahl airtime would \u201ctear down New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>\u201d and be a \u201cdisservice to the voters.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Dendahl took a shot at Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s refusal to debate, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI thought that someone who has held public office basically since 1982 would want to debate someone like me who has never held elective office,\u201d Dendahl said, adding that he thinks Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> won\u2019t debate him because he doesn\u2019t want 2008 presidential opponents to have the video to use in commercials.<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s not particularly a good debater,\u201d Dendahl said, according to the newspaper.<\/p>\n

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You can read the rest of the article by clicking here<\/a>. It includes a response from Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s campaign manager, Amanda Cooper, but I\u2019m not going to use any of her response here. If she wanted time to respond, she should have put her candidate in the debate.<\/p>\n

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Joe Monahan<\/a> said Dendahl was tripped up when asked about his past support for legalizing drugs. Dendahl said he is on the record as saying legalization needs to be discussed, but added that position is \u201cnot part of my campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cBut the proverbial cat was out of the bag and the confident candidate for a moment looked sheepish and uncertain,\u201d Monahan wrote.<\/p>\n

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Dendahl was once an attack dog as the chair of the state GOP, but says he is different as a candidate. Noting that he attacked the governor several times, Monahan said Dendahl didn\u2019t convey that difference.<\/p>\n

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Monahan wrote that Dendahl\u2019s \u201creluctance, or inability, to put forth a comprehensive agenda capped his appeal and left the \u2018old\u2019 Dendahl image more noticeable than he may have liked.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican gubernatorial candidate John Dendahl used his half-hour interview with the news anchors for KOB-TV in Albuquerque to trash Gov. Bill Richardson, the commuter rail and public funding of the spaceport Tuesday night, according to news accounts. Democratic congressional candidate Al Kissling received hardly a mention in the media, so I can\u2019t tell you a […]<\/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-736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736","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=736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}