{"id":1243,"date":"2007-02-09T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-09T23:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/02\/richardson-to-visit-las-cruces-again-may-seek-funding-for-cash-strapped-boys-and-girls-club\/"},"modified":"2007-02-09T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2007-02-09T23:17:00","slug":"richardson-to-visit-las-cruces-again-may-seek-funding-for-cash-strapped-boys-and-girls-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/02\/richardson-to-visit-las-cruces-again-may-seek-funding-for-cash-strapped-boys-and-girls-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson to visit Las Cruces again, may seek funding for cash-strapped Boys and Girls Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rc0BTTSe5DI\/AAAAAAAAA3g\/LlZEGxrx6yQ\/s1600-h\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rc0BTTSe5DI\/AAAAAAAAA3g\/LlZEGxrx6yQ\/s200\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5029677789949649970\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Gov. Bill Richardson will visit the cash-strapped <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bgclublc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Boys and Girls Club of Las Cruces<\/a> on Monday and will probably announce a proposal to help fund it.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is scheduled to tour the Boys and Girls Club on <a href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?f=q&#038;hl=en&amp;q=Boys+and+Girls+Club+of+Las+Cruces,+las+cruces,+nm&#038;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;amp;amp;z=16&#038;ll=32.312253,-106.77917&amp;spn=0.008342,0.014462&#038;om=1&amp;iwloc=A\" target=\"_blank\">West Las Cruces Avenue<\/a> at 5 p.m. It will be his third visit to <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Do\u00f1a<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">Ana<\/st1:placename> <st1:placename st=\"on\">County<\/st1:placename><\/st1:place> since announcing on Jan. 21 that he\u2019s running for president.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Boys and Girls Club announced earlier this week that it may soon have to close its doors if it can\u2019t find additional funding. Telephones were shut off, and the club\u2019s board president said the center doesn\u2019t have any major donors left.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">At least one employee has been going months without pay and board members have donated their own money to keep the facility operational.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"\"> <\/span>\u201cHe wants to see it with his own eyes,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> spokesman Allan Oliver said. \u201cOur expectation is that there will be an announcement (of a capital outlay or other funding proposal), but it\u2019s something he\u2019ll do at that time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">While in the area, <st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city> will also visit a pre-kindergarten program in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">La Mesa<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> at 4 p.m. to promote education initiatives. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson will visit the cash-strapped Boys and Girls Club of Las Cruces on Monday and will probably announce a proposal to help fund it. Richardson is scheduled to tour the Boys and Girls Club on West Las Cruces Avenue at 5 p.m. It will be his third visit to Do\u00f1a Ana County since [&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-1243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243","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=1243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}