{"id":424,"date":"2004-09-21T10:48:45","date_gmt":"2004-09-21T17:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/wp2\/uncategorized\/wilson-says-one-thing-does-another\/"},"modified":"2004-09-21T10:48:45","modified_gmt":"2004-09-21T17:48:45","slug":"wilson-says-one-thing-does-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/wilson-says-one-thing-does-another\/","title":{"rendered":"Wilson Says One Thing, Does Another"},"content":{"rendered":"

ABQjournal: ‘Independent’ Rarely Strays from Party Line<\/a> By David Alire Garcia, Of the Journal<\/p>\n

In reality, Wilson’s six-year record of voting in Congress reveals a loyal, dependable vote for the official Republican Party position on the overwhelming majority of issues. Much more so than either of the Republican congressmen who represented Albuquerque before her.<\/p>\n

Last year, Wilson voted with the House Republican leadership 91 percent of the time<\/b> according to vote-tabulating researchers at Congressional Quarterly. The year before that, 90 percent of the time. The year before that, 94 percent.<\/p>\n

The Albuquerque-based 1st Congressional District that Wilson represents isn’t a 90-percent-plus Republican district. It’s nearly evenly split between those who prefer Democratic ideas and candidates versus those who prefer Republican ones.<\/b><\/p>\n

The late Steve Schiff and Manuel Lujan, both Republicans, voted the party line a lot less. …<\/p>\n

“She is essentially a fairly conservative Republican,”<\/b> former Republican Gov. David Cargo told me shortly after Wilson’s first debate with her Democratic challenger, state Sen. Richard Romero, last Sunday.<\/p>\n

At the debate, Wilson insisted that she “frequently” crosses party lines.<\/p>\n

Alpert’s Truth: Consumer Reporting for Voters<\/a><\/p>\n

Heather First To Pull Trigger; Unleashes Negative TV On Romero – http:\/\/joemonahansnewmexico.blogspot.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

[A] political junkie told me that “Heather has been the first to go negative in her past two campaigns, so I am not surprised.”<\/p>\n

Wilson polls at 49%, Romero at 45%. She’s not going to take any chances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ABQjournal: ‘Independent’ Rarely Strays from Party Line By David Alire Garcia, Of the Journal In reality, Wilson’s six-year record of voting in Congress reveals a loyal, dependable vote for the official Republican Party position on the overwhelming majority of issues. Much more so than either of the Republican congressmen who represented Albuquerque before her. Last … Continue reading Wilson Says One Thing, Does Another<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","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=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}