{"id":46,"date":"2005-10-01T13:36:48","date_gmt":"2005-10-01T19:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=46"},"modified":"2005-10-01T13:39:08","modified_gmt":"2005-10-01T19:39:08","slug":"the-boor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/the-boor\/","title":{"rendered":"The Boor"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I read the initial news story about this tactic, I thought how low-class <\/p>\n

it is for the supporters of the front-runner and likely winner to act like this — where were their flip-flops?<\/p>\n

Kudos to the <\/p>\n

Journal for blaming Chávez himself for this. Too bad they continue to endorse the boor. mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

ABQjournal: Mayor Needs to Rein In His <\/p>\n

Troops<\/a><\/p>\n

City campaign politics hit a low point Thursday.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Notified that rivals Eric Griego and Brad <\/p>\n

Winter were going to hold a press conference, Mayor Martin Ch\u00e1vez’s campaign dispatched a crowd of supporters and campaign pooch Dukes <\/p>\n

to Civic Plaza.<\/p>\n

Dukes, the mayor’s dog whose picture and paw-print were featured on a mailer addressed to dogs in voting <\/p>\n

households, may have been the best behaved of the mayor’s backers.<\/p>\n

Campaign spokeswoman Joan Griffin said the mayor’s <\/p>\n

supporters “wanted to encourage a positive campaign and quit this kind of negative campaigning that’s going on.”<\/p>\n

The Ch\u00e1vez <\/p>\n

camp’s alternative to negative campaigning apparently is to shout down, intimidate or otherwise disrupt legitimate opposition campaign <\/p>\n

events.<\/p>\n

Chanting, “Marty, Marty, Marty,” Ch\u00e1vez supporters closed in on Griego and Winter as the two councilors running for <\/p>\n

mayor raised questions about a Ch\u00e1vez fundraiser. …<\/p>\n

[R]aising questions about the fundraiser and the campaign’s varying reports <\/p>\n

on the amounts contributed is fair game.<\/p>\n

Ch\u00e1vez supporters’ obnoxious tactics on Thursday are not, and the buck for their <\/p>\n

behavior stops on the incumbent mayor’s desk.<\/p>\n

Unless he condones this kind of campaigning, Ch\u00e1vez should apologize to Griego <\/p>\n

and Winter for those who disrupted their press conference in his name. While he’s at it, he should apologize to the voters for <\/p>\n

this boorish behavior<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I read the initial news story about this tactic, I thought how low-class it is for the supporters of the front-runner and likely winner to act like this — where were their flip-flops? Kudos to the Journal for blaming Chávez himself for this. Too bad they continue to endorse the boor. mjh ABQjournal: Mayor … Continue reading The Boor<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46","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=46"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}