{"id":5129,"date":"2007-10-03T14:39:02","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T21:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5129"},"modified":"2007-10-04T04:20:38","modified_gmt":"2007-10-04T11:20:38","slug":"another-victim-of-the-us-attorney-purge-scandal-domenici-expected-to-announce-retirement-says-wapo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5129","title":{"rendered":"Another Victim of the US Attorney Purge Scandal: Domenici Expected to Announce Retirement, Says WaPo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/DomeniciBush_DOJ.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/2007\/10\/sen_pete_domenici_expected_to.html\"><em>WaPo <\/em>blogger Chris Cillizza is reporting<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">Veteran Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) is expected to announce tomorrow that he will retire from the Senate in 2008, according to several informed sources, a decision that further complicates an already difficult playing field for Republicans next November.<\/div>\n<p>You&#8217;ll remember Domenici, of course, as the senator (along with NM Rep. Heather Wilson) who was haranguing US Attorney David Iglesias to bring <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4276\">phony &#8220;voter fraud&#8221; indictments<\/a> in the state via several inappropriate phone calls prior to the 2006 election. Iglesias was later fired for not having done so.<\/p>\n<p>Like most Repubs, when called out, he&#8217;d rather run (or not run, as the case may be) than fight.<\/p>\n<p>Though Cillizza speculates that NM Gov. Bill Richardson would be the &#8220;dream candidate&#8221; to run for the seat, it seems he&#8217;s currently too busy for the moment running for vice president. We&#8217;d be delighted to see him change his mind and do something actually useful for the country in 2008.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20071003\/ap_on_el_se\/domenici_retiring;_ylt=AqBNn5mVRWLpYQNU0WmA52ys0NUE\">AP confirms<\/a>, and notes that &#8220;Domenici would be the fifth Republican senator to decline to seek a new term.&#8221; They&#8217;ve also got more details on the &#8220;health issues&#8221; that Domenici, who had previously planned on running again, will use as his excuse. We guess &#8220;need to spend more time with the family&#8221; <em>is<\/em> getting a bit worn out by now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo blogger Chris Cillizza is reporting: Veteran Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) is expected to announce tomorrow that he will retire from the Senate in 2008, according to several informed sources, a decision that further complicates an already difficult playing field for Republicans next November. You&#8217;ll remember Domenici, of course, as the senator (along with NM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[292,269,223,146],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-richardson","category-david-iglesias","category-dept-of-justice","category-new-mexico"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5129"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}