{"id":796,"date":"2006-11-01T13:18:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/richardson-campaign-breaks-sign-etiquette\/"},"modified":"2006-11-01T13:18:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T19:18:00","slug":"richardson-campaign-breaks-sign-etiquette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/richardson-campaign-breaks-sign-etiquette\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson campaign breaks sign etiquette"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s no secret that Republicans think they can beat Rep. Andy Nu\u00f1ez, D-Hatch, and have put a lot of money into the campaign of Republican challenger Isaac Chavez. Gov. Bill Richardson is under a lot of pressure to help candidates like Nu\u00f1ez keep their positions. <\/p>\n

<\/o:p><\/p>\n

\n

Chavez e-mailed me this photo this morning. It was taken at the intersection of Lohman Avenue<\/st1:address><\/st1:street> and Roadrunner Parkway<\/st1:address><\/st1:street> in Las Cruces<\/st1:city>, where someone put a bag-type Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> sign around a Chavez sign, blocking the view from any angle of Chavez\u2019s sign. You can see the Web address at the bottom of Chavez\u2019s sign sticking out below the Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> sign.<\/p>\n

\n

<\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u201c\u2026 you can see what lack of respect his campaign has for the little guy,\u201d Chavez said in an e-mail. \u201cThere are many signs already up at that spot. Why did they find it necessary to cover mine?\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/o:p><\/p>\n

There is plenty of room at that location, and Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>\u2019s sign could have gone up in another spot that wasn\u2019t covering Chavez\u2019s sign.<\/p>\n

<\/o:p><\/p>\n

It was probably a volunteer campaign worker who did this, and it likely wasn\u2019t sanctioned by the campaign, but it was unnecessary, nonetheless.<\/p>\n

<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Candidates\u2019 campaigns have to respect each others\u2019 signs, regardless of political affiliation, or such childishness will become rampant.<\/p>\n

\n

Update, 12:45 p.m.<\/p>\n

<\/o:p><\/p>\n

It is possible that, as a commenter on this site pointed out, the campaign had nothing to do with this, and some passerby who doesn\u2019t like Chavez moved the sign. Let\u2019s hope that\u2019s the case.<\/p>\n

\n

An earlier version of this posting stated that Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s sign was in front of Chavez\u2019s sign when it was, in fact, a bag placed around Chavez\u2019s sign.<\/p>\n

\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s no secret that Republicans think they can beat Rep. Andy Nu\u00f1ez, D-Hatch, and have put a lot of money into the campaign of Republican challenger Isaac Chavez. Gov. Bill Richardson is under a lot of pressure to help candidates like Nu\u00f1ez keep their positions. Chavez e-mailed me this photo this morning. It was taken […]<\/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-796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796","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=796"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/796\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}