{"id":1704140,"date":"2022-10-20T13:18:01","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704140"},"modified":"2022-10-20T13:18:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T17:18:20","slug":"new-mexico-democrat-candidate-gabe-vasquez-deletes-tweets-slamming-oil-to-masquerade-as-moderate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-mexico-democrat-candidate-gabe-vasquez-deletes-tweets-slamming-oil-to-masquerade-as-moderate\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico Democrat Candidate Gabe Vasquez Deletes Tweets Slamming Oil To Masquerade As Moderate"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnew-mexico-democrat-candidate-gabe-vasquez-deletes-tweets-slamming-oil-to-masquerade-as-moderate%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704140&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Democrat framing himself as a moderate in New Mexico\u2019s oil-rich 2nd Congressional District deleted tweets where he labeled the state\u2019s lucrative energy industry \u201cextremely toxic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/10\/14\/politics\/kfile-gabe-vasquez-new-mexico-deleted-progressive-tweets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According <\/a>to CNN, which broke the story on Friday, Gabe Vasquez, a former city councilman for Las Cruces near White Sands National Park, deleted a range of left-wing social media posts as he seeks to unseat Republican incumbent Rep. Yvette Herrell. The contest is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cookpolitical.com\/ratings\/house-race-ratings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rated<\/a> as one of 31 toss-ups by the Cook Political Report. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see conservation as the wise use of natural resources \u2014 industrial scale renewable energy production to me, is a viable path forward to replace the extremely toxic fossil fuel industry,\u201d Vasquez wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201118025458\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gabe_NM\/status\/1328894212683644928\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">since-deleted tweet<\/a> from November 2020. \u201cI admit it has significant impacts on lands, but think it\u2019s a step in the right direction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>New Mexico\u2019s 2nd Congressional District covers the southern half of the state, including its share of the Permian Basin. The basin is one of the nation\u2019s most productive oil and gas fields, contributing <a href=\"https:\/\/permianpartnership.org\/power-of-the-permian\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">billions <\/a>to the state economy. President Joe Biden\u2019s cascade of taxes and regulations bearing down on the industry, however, has <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/05\/13\/new-mexico-oil-disaster-atop-colonial-pipeline-fiasco-exposes-lunacy-of-biden-energy-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sent <\/a>operators in New Mexico, where a <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Federal_land_ownership_by_state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">third <\/a>of the state is under federal jurisdiction, to Texas, where the federal government oversees less than <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Federal_land_ownership_by_state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2 percent<\/a>. Overwhelming federal ownership makes the district\u2019s congressional representative all the more important in navigating constituents\u2019 myriad of public lands issues. <\/p>\n<p>In another deleted post from November 2020, Vasquez signaled support for the Democrats\u2019 Green New Deal, a socialist bill to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/an-expensive-divisive-way-to-fight-climate-change-11550055780\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reorient <\/a>the entire U.S. economy and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2020\/02\/12\/why-the-green-new-deal-would-destroy-the-environment\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">destroy <\/a>the environment. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo my fellow Dems, let\u2019s avoid playing to the R\u2019s talking points &#038; playing on their field!\u201d Vasquez <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20201103184729\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gabe_NM\/status\/1323698250868666369\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s OK to oppose fracking, OK to support the Green New Deal, OK to support Medicare for all, OK to talk about progressive immigration reform, OK to stand for what you believe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Vasquez did not respond to The Federalist\u2019s inquiry about whether the Democrat nominee to represent one of the most oil-rich districts in the nation now supports the Green New Deal. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cInvesting in oil and gas is irresponsible,\u201d Vasquez <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210106011353\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/Gabe_NM\/status\/1346625934049198080\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote <\/a>in another deleted tweet from January of last year. <\/p>\n<p>Vasquez now claims to be a champion of the oil and gas industry while he\u2019s running for Congress. \u201cI think the oil and gas industry is incredibly important to New Mexico,\u201d Vasquez <a href=\"https:\/\/www.currentargus.com\/story\/news\/2022\/08\/18\/vasquez-to-balance-oil-and-gas-and-the-environment-in-bid-for-congress\/65401949007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told <\/a>a local paper this summer. \u201cIt\u2019s incredibly important to this district, and I think it supports an economy that\u2019s not only based on fossil fuel extraction, but it\u2019s also based on the small businesses that support this industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Gabe Vasquez to try and hide his radical views is right out of the Joe Biden playbook,\u201d Larry Behrens, the communications director for the energy nonprofit Power the Future told The Federalist. <\/p>\n<p>At a Wednesday press conference, Biden <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/greg_price11\/status\/1582787867654295552?s=20&#038;t=PwfW-2RlOQdzizapIY7Rng\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a>, \u201cMy administration has not stopped or slowed U.S. oil production.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/federal-oil-leases-slow-to-a-trickle-under-biden-11662230816\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According <\/a>to The Wall Street Journal, however, federal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabe Vasquez, who frames himself as a moderate in New Mexico&#8217;s oil-rich 2nd Congressional District, deleted tweets trashing fossil 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