Link: ABQjournal: Dendahl Urges Gov. to Restrain Workers.
Republican gubernatorial candidate John Dendahl says a top spokesman for Gov. Bill Richardson acted improperly by making political comments on behalf of his boss— and he wants Richardson to clarify what role state-paid workers have in his re-election activities. But the spokesman, Pahl Shipley, said Wednesday it was "completely appropriate" for him to fire off a news release on state letterhead that in part called Dendahl "a candidate who embraces division and negativity." Shipley in an e-mail to the Journal said the news release— which he said he did on his own time and on his own computer— was in response to Dendahl's criticism of Richardson's performance. And he called Dendahl's allegation of wrongdoing a "baseless cheap shot." "It's obvious he is desperate for any kind of media coverage," Shipley said in his e-mail.
