Another episode of Dick ‘n W’s PICK YER POISON!
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‘After Sen. Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican, mangled the pronunciation of his name, saying “Eng-lis” instead of “Ee-glace-e-as”, Iglesias thanked another senator for getting it right, drawing an icy stare from Specter.’
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Iglesias: Allies betrayed me
Testimony puts Domenici, Wilson on the defensive
By James W. Brosnan (Contact)
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
WASHINGTON — Once they were friends and allies, three members of the small clan of Albuquerque Republicans - the political powerhouse and mentor and his two prot‚g‚s who each owed their jobs to him.
On Tuesday, the nation saw the breakdown of the friendship between former U.S. Attorney for New Mexico David Iglesias and his mentor Sen. Pete Domenici and friend and political ally Rep. Heather Wilson during two congressional hearings and the trading of he-saids and she-saids.
Iglesias is already out of a job. His testimony could make it difficult for Domenici and Wilson to keep theirs when they face New Mexico voters next year.
Iglesias and three other fired U.S. attorneys testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday morning. Two more colleagues joined them before a House Judiciary subcommittee in the afternoon. Some were mystified about why they were asked to resign in December; some were resigned to their fate.
But none of the others displayed a personal sense of betrayal as did Iglesias.
Domenici was his “mentor,” the man who got him the U.S. attorney’s appointment, Iglesias testified. Wilson was an ally in 1998, when she won her first race for Congress but he lost his bid to be state attorney general.
So when Wilson called Oct. 16 and asked him whether there were “sealed indictments” in an ongoing investigation involving kickbacks in courthouse construction in Albuquerque, Iglesias was “conflicted,” he said, and did not report the conversation to the Justice Department as required by department guidelines.
Similarly, when Domenici called Iglesias at home about two weeks later and asked whether anything in the corruption cases would be filed “before November,” then hung up after hearing a negative response, Iglesias still did not call justice, even though he “felt sick” after the call.
Please find the entire article and sidebar at Albuquerque Tribune.