So what else is new? My opponent started his negative radio ads today. They are being paid for by the oil and gas industry, you know, they are the same guys who gave us bush and cheney. The ads are full of erroneous and misleading information. The oil and gas guys don't care. They want to continue owning the New Mexico State Land Office just like they own the White House. If you would like to help counter the oil and gas industry and their mascot Pat Lyons, please go to www.jimbaca.com and make a donation. Lets show the oil and gas industry that they don't run New Mexico.One of the lies in the radio commercial was that I was fired by President Bill Clinton as BLM Director. Nothing is further from truth. Please read this for a good approximation of what happened after I left Washington after 13 months. Both the President and Vice President had asked me to stay as BLM Director. After meeting with Bruce Babbitt and witnessing his obvious lack of respect for the BLM's efforts, I placed a letter of resignation in his lap and left with my head held high. Both President Clinton and Vice President Gore asked for my support in their subsequent bids for the White House and I gladly gave it to them.
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I heard the ad this morning and it sounded pretty damaging. How will you respond?
We wont respond to this kind if Rovian negative ads. We will compare our records.
Pat Lyons doesn't know what he's talking about. In fact, Lyons' own website says otherwise, portraying Director Baca as personally handing a letter of resignation to Secretary Babbitt. Our former eastside cowboy swings wildly, off balance and off the mark. With face flushing red, Lyons blusters on about how Baca is incompetent and doesn't understand land management. Actually, Pat, plenty of folks who disagreed with Jim in the past wished that was true. It was never that Baca didn't understand or wasn't capable, but the opposite: those who didn't like his tilt toward conservation and long-term land protection felt Baca had too much of an impact. As someone with a longstanding interest in Western land management who's seen both up close, I think Baca's frustrations with the Interior Department leadership had a lot to do with how early it was in the Clinton Administration's learning curve on Western issues. A couple years later, things might have been different. Baca did the job the President asked him to do, and no doubt everyone learned from the experience. Policy disagreements are fair game, but it seems that even in his fourth year, Lyons keeps getting both the little things and the big ones wrong, far too often.
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