Watch Richardson’s gay-rights speech in L.A.

If you’re interested, here’s video of Gov. Bill Richardson’s speech on Saturday to Human Rights Campaign in Los Angeles – one of the two now-infamous gay-rights speeches he gave over the weekend.

During the speech, he spoke about what is happening – or not happening – at home with domestic partner benefits.

“The reason I have to leave is I called in my New Mexico Legislature into a special session to keep pushing my agenda, which is a full domestic partner rights act,” Richardson told the group, to applause. “… That’s why I’m going back home. … so if you excuse me after my speech, I have to go because I have to do this work.”

As Steve Terrell has already pointed out on his blog, Richardson failed to mention he was headed to New York for campaign events, not back to New Mexico for the special session. He won’t be back here until Thursday.