The New Mexico Independent’s Trip Jennings reports:
Gov. Bill Richardson [D], his chief of staff Brian Condit, budget secretary Katherine Miller and security officers were gone within minutes from the scene of an accident Saturday in which a houseboat was sideswiped and another was smashed into at
That’s what The Associated Press is reporting, citing an unnamed source with knowledge of the investigation.
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson and former high-ranking members of his administration won’t be criminally charged in a yearlong federal investigation into pay-to-play allegations involving one of the Democratic governor’s large
The New Mexico Independent’s Trip Jennings reports that Gov. Bill Richardson (D-N.M.) is getting in on some of that sweet, sweet executive privilege action:
The [New Mexico] Independent sought to view documents from the governor’s office from January through August 2006 that would have divulged with whom
It looks like Gov. Bill Richardson’s (D-N.M.) troubles might be getting a bit worse. Richardson is currently entangled in a federal pay-to-play investigation in his home state. Today, The New Mexico Independent’s Heath Haussamen reports that Steven Rattner, who is currently overseeing the Obama More…
For the last few years, New Mexico has been close to becoming the first state between the coasts to legalize civil unions for same-sex couples. Many Democrats in both houses of the state legislature support the idea, and as a presidential candidate last year, Gov. Bill Richardson pandered to gay More…
Federal prosecutors are asking whether David Contarino, a man Gov. Bill Richardson once described as the “strategic mind” of his administration and “my most senior and trusted aide,” was involved in the alleged pay-to-play scheme that derailed the governor’s nomination for commerce secretary days ago, writers at Bloomberg More…
SANTA FE, N.M. — Gov. Bill Richardson, the first casualty of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition and New Mexico’s high-flying chief executive, walked a familiar path Monday when he gave New Mexico media little notice for a hastily called press conference.
Barely 24 hours earlier Richardson had stirred up Washington’s More…
Via Dana Goldstein, Esquire rounds up some quotes, anecdotes and nyuk-nyuks from the new Commerce Secretary-designate (and possible post-Clinton secretary of state?). Here’s my favorite, with a guest appearance from Saddam Hussein:
Saddam had these small, black eyes. I started giving him my spiel, which was, “I
If in the back of his mind, New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson harbors any dissatisfaction over not being named Barack Obama’s secretary of state, he can take heart. His new job running the Commerce Dept. has a surprisingly large international portfolio. And it could just be a stepping stone to More…
Many in the punditocracy wondered aloud why New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson — a former congressman, energy secretary, and ambassador to the United Nations and presidential candidate — would be willing to take the historically low-profile position of secretary of commerce. (Quick, name either of the men who held the More…
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