by Stephen of the Thinkery
St. Pete has broken my heart. I was just barely 6 months old when Domenici took office. There's some family friends, good partisan Democrats, who have worked for Domenici. When I took a trip to DC as a teenager and visited Domenici, my parents were as excited about that as anything else - even my Democratic Mother.
But Domenici's and Wilson's denials and then excuses are crumbling around them, as are their political careers. As Josh Marshall points out, the New Mexico state Republicans are not even trying to deny that the issue was Iglesia's supposed reticence to indict New Mexico Democrats for recent scandals. Instead, they're out there arguing that it was a valid reason:
