{"id":1994,"date":"2006-09-21T14:19:34","date_gmt":"2006-09-21T20:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/media\/saguaro-gate\/"},"modified":"2006-09-21T14:19:34","modified_gmt":"2006-09-21T20:19:34","slug":"saguaro-gate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/media\/saguaro-gate\/","title":{"rendered":"Saguaro-gate"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"mine\"><p>Thank goodness the Albuquerque Journal is on top of Saguaro-gate. In a front page, above-the-fold article, the top news of the day is the criminal misuse of saguaros in a political ad that points out Heather Wilson&#8217;s close alignment with Duhbya. I note there was no argument about the facts in the ad, just the graphical error.<\/p>\n<p>Will the Journal be exposing the shocking fact that major advertiser, American Homeland Furnishings, sold coyotes wearing bandannas, something never seen in the wild?<\/p>\n<p>If you want the finest PR unlimited funds can buy, vote Republican. If you are tired of the same-old fear tactics, stay-the-course and admit no errors, vote Democratic. <span class=\"sig\">mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqjournal.com\/news\/state\/494469nm09-21-06.htm\">ABQjournal: Anti-Wilson Ad Poses Prickly Problem<\/a>By Jeff Jones,  Journal Politics Writer<br \/>\nCopyright \u00a9 2006 Albuquerque Journal<\/p>\n<p>    Democrats have unintentionally revived a prickly topic with a new TV pitch targeting Republican Rep. Heather Wilson.<\/p>\n<p>    Their high-dollar ad in New Mexico&#8217;s 1st Congressional District features dozens of saguaro cactuses, which don&#8217;t grow in New Mexico and have long been a thorn in the side of New Mexico purists who know better.<\/p>\n<p>[mjh: This is the most emailed article on abqjoural.com today. Sigh. We get what we deserve.]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thank goodness the Albuquerque Journal is on top of Saguaro-gate. In a front page, above-the-fold article, the top news of the day is the criminal misuse of saguaros in a political ad that points out Heather Wilson&#8217;s close alignment with Duhbya. I note there was no argument about the facts in the ad, just the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/media\/saguaro-gate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saguaro-gate<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}