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Weh ‘won’t dignify’ Iglesias column with a response
Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh doesn’t have much to say about a hard-hitting commentary from former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias that was published on this site earlier today.
Offered the chance to respond to Iglesias, Weh’s campaign released only this prepared statement from the candidate:
“There have been some recent personal attacks made against my candidacy, which I won’t dignify by discussing other than to repeat what I have said on several occasions: I will criticize any official — Republican or Democrat — who doesn’t measure up to the standards expected of them. And I’ll be just as aggressive in removing mediocre government officials when I’m elected governor.”
The chain of events started Friday when I critiqued Weh’s recent statement that he was “taking on my own party” in working to get Iglesias fired. The situation has also received some attention from the national news Web site Talking Points Memo.
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The only things which I can infer from Weh’s comment that he will not dignify Iglesias’s comments with a response is arrogance and an an inability to explain his views, to which Iglesias responded. I would note that, as state chair of the GOP, Weh was responsible for distributing scurrilous campaign materials in the last election. The man may have been a Marine, but he is not a man of character or principle.
Iglesias needs to get a grip – his comments were petty and without dignity … and for all of his merits, Allen Wey remains disingenous, at best, although he has changed his frame of reference from the past to the future, “I WILL criticize any official …”. because he was certainly selective in the past. While he may do it in the future, that isn’t his record: he shot his mouth off in the Rory Ogle case and he was wrong, he shot his mouth off before he got the facts in the C de Baca case, and he shot his mouth off in the Republican quadrennial convention last year and he was wrong there too. He supported The Choo-choo, of all things … Brave, normally articulate, and perhaps a good man to have as a neighbor, but yet another big mouth running for office (just what we need in Santa Fe, eh?) and a petty tyrant – “my bat, my ball, my rules …” yep – a real supporter of transparency and people solutions = disingenous at best. He was right about one thing though – the Iglesias comments did not merit ‘dignity’.