The plot thickens in the whodunit of the anti-Demmer smear job. A friend just sent us a link to a post at f-Brilliant, New Mexico reporter Dennis Domrzalski's blog. In Republican Party Smear Jobs, Domrzalski writes:
. . .The New Mexico Attorney General’s Office is checking out allegations that state Sen. Joe Carraro, an Albuquerque Republican, was threatened with a vicious smear campaign—including threats bring up and 20-year-divorce case and attempts to embarrass his children—if he went through with his decision to seek his party’s nomination for the First Congressional District seat.
The AG’s office is analyzing information to see if it warrants a full-blown investigation, said office spokesman Phil Sisneros.
“He (Carraro) has talked to the Attorney General about his concerns and his concerns have gone into the hopper,” Sisneros said. “The usual process is that we determine if there is something actionable, if there is something we can do. It is an analysis of the information. It was just last week that we spoke to the senator.”
Carraro, who says the threats amount to extortion, has also taken the allegations to the FBI. He says the feds should be involved because some of the threats involved a former state Republican Party official who now works in Texas.
“These people should be in jail the way they’re threatening people,” Carraro said. . . .
Is this an isolated case, or the way politics gets played in today's Republican Party? We can't tell, but the pattern certainly looks familiar.
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