A national columnist says Gov. Bill Richardson’s presidential plans may be buried under a recent snowstorm that crippled Northern New Mexico. In a Richardson-hating column published in Capitol Hill Blue and elsewhere, Scripps Howard News Service columnist Dan K. Thomasson, a former editor of the news service, wrote about the snow storm that buried Santa Fe and Albuquerque under 20-30 inches of snow over a three day period at the end of December. Before getting excited about a Richardson campaign, Thomasson wrote, “consider that Richardson’s administrative expertise got severely tested by the politician’s nightmare, a snowstorm that discombobulated the state and its capital for days longer than it should have, leaving New Mexicans grumbling from Gallup to the Colorado line.” Driving Santa Fe streets, he wrote, “is still hazardous nearly two weeks after the last flake fell in the worst storm in 30 years. It wasn’t that the state and its two major cities – here and Albuquerque (we’ll ignore Thomasson’s ignorance of Las Cruces for now) – were under prepared for 20 to 30 inches of ‘partly cloudy’ over three days, they weren’t prepared at all despite some advanced notice.” “The lack of equipment available statewide to deal with such an event would have embarrassed my Indiana hometown, population 19,000. But why buy equipment for snow that only occurs now and then? Continue Reading