{"id":1107,"date":"2007-01-16T15:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-16T21:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/richardson-sounds-presidential-in-speech\/"},"modified":"2007-01-16T15:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-16T21:17:00","slug":"richardson-sounds-presidential-in-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/01\/richardson-sounds-presidential-in-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson sounds presidential in speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Ra1A-X7tEGI\/AAAAAAAAAXw\/7E5q6Za2V1A\/s1600-h\/RichardsonWatch.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Ra1A-X7tEGI\/AAAAAAAAAXw\/7E5q6Za2V1A\/s200\/RichardsonWatch.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5020740599908470882\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Though he only made one reference to a potential White House run in his state of the state address, Gov. Bill Richardson sounded like a man campaigning for president.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">His announced agenda for the session, reiterated during the speech, included many topics that are hot on a national level, including raising the minimum wage, cutting taxes, combating global warming, increasing use of renewable energy, raising teacher salaries, repairing aging schools, improving health care and raising ethical standards of government officials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He pledged to work hard to sell his agenda to lawmakers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cRegardless of any future political plans that I may have, my priority will be a successful legislative session,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said \u2013 his one reference to an expected announcement later this month that he\u2019s running for president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Richardson, who has been working for months on honing his policy stances and physical appearance, looked fit, trim, confident and knowledgeable during the speech. He was accompanied by his wife Barbara, who he referred to as \u201cmy partner.\u201d He reminded legislators of his time as a congressman and his overwhelming victory last year in his gubernatorial re-election bid.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city> used that support from <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> voters to counter arguments that the state budget is increasing too quickly and that he is making too many changes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cThe message from 69 percent of voters was loud and clear,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said. \u201cThe people of <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> are calling us to act. We can\u2019t slow down. We have too much to do.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At the same time, <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> demanded that lawmakers put aside 10 percent of this year\u2019s new money, rather than including it in the budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cI will accept nothing less,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Though he only made one reference to a potential White House run in his state of the state address, Gov. Bill Richardson sounded like a man campaigning for president. His announced agenda for the session, reiterated during the speech, included many topics that are hot on a national level, including raising the minimum wage, cutting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}