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THis is outstanding, Mario! The videos are great...good work. More people need to go after this guy for his double-speak and his grandstanding.
Mario: Since you are cutting and pasting from my interview with David Iglesias, I will point out he was referring to pressure from NM GOP figures to bring "voter fraud" charges, not the court house cases. You pulled out a quote from his testimony referring to the court house cases then plunked it in the middle of a discussion about the so-called voter fraud cases, which were not the subjet of the calls from Domenici and Wilson. Tsk, tsk.
Mario,
Looks like Mr Scaratino gave you the smackdown already. Ouch! Need some smelling salts?
Why is it so important to discredit Iglesias? Domenici and Wilson should face the music. Let the investigation go forward and let the chips fall where they may. Or does the rule of law, ethical behavior, and plain speak only apply to Democrats?
Look at Scarantino split hairs! Iglesias totally backed away from his charges against Domenici, that he was sure Domenici was talking about the courthouse corruption cases, that he felt threatened and sickened, and that Domenici may have obstructed justice...
Now, he doubts that Domenici was talking about the courthouse corruption cases, was saddened by the calls but never pressured or made sick, and Domenici didn't do anything illegal - no obstruction of justice - maybe unethical, but certainly not illegal.
And this pretty boy has the audacity to say that he's a Christian, who is doing the will of God through his intense self-promotion and character assassinations.
...and I don't believe it's illegal (yet) for the NM GOP to pressure anyone it wants to.
Something no one seems to remembers is that what Domenici and Wilson did is clearly against House and Senate ethics rules. Not to mention good ol' common sense's ethical rules.
But, yeah, go after Iglesias instead of acknowledging this. That makes the most sense.
Why is it so important to discredit Iglesias?
It's interesting to present this as a smear job going that direction and not the other. It sort of *matters* if he was fired because he's a slacker or not and he seems to be making out like he's pure fallen snow but for the evil ones out to get him because he didn't... make up stuff? No... no one *seems* to be claiming that he was told to make stuff up. So he didn't get his butt in gear and do his job?
Was he sitting on the work he was supposed to be doing? He can't be expected to rush things to benefit politicians but he *can* be expected to do his job in a timely manner and be just a wee bit aggressive in the pursuit of justice.
I mean... you get a phone call... if the answer is "there's not enough evidence, it's not going to happen" that's one thing. If the answer is, "I can't talk to you about ongoing investigations" then that's another. If the answer is, "What? You expect me to actually do something about corruption in New Mexico?" That's yet another thing.
And there seems to be a good deal of corruption in New Mexico and revealing it *is* going to help Republicans if only because Democrats control the state. They hold more offices.
If corruption can't be aggressively gone after for fear it will help one party and hurt the other we are simply screwed.
Here we go again, as President Reagan used to say. We have the apologists for our party's mistakes contorting themselves to defend the indefensible.
David Iglesias, like him or not, is a straight shooter. First we loved him because he was conservative, Christian, educated, Hispanic, etc. He was our golden boy. The one who was going to show New Mexico that our party actually courted and supported Hispanics. Besides, Manuel Lujan, we really hadn't had, in recent history, an Hispanic we could point to as an example of how "PC" we were. We couldn't say enough good things about him. We were ready to promote him as the next big thing. Then, when he wouldn't the bidding of the party stalwarts on prosecuting "voter fraud" and "Democratic corruption" in a timely manner (before the elections) he lost all his luster (support). And he was willing to go quietly into the night until the AG's office said it was because of "performance related issues". Hmmmm? What's a conservative Christian to do? Let them lie about you or speak the truth? I would hazard a guess that in the general population Mr. Iglesias has a lot more credibility that Mario, Synova, and Anonymous. Why? Because they can see through the smoke screens and hear through the lap dogs barking. Should we stand for prinicples and the Constitution or toe the party line?
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