{"id":1577,"date":"2007-04-10T16:41:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-10T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/coziness-with-donors-dogs-richardsons-campaign\/"},"modified":"2007-04-10T16:41:00","modified_gmt":"2007-04-10T22:41:00","slug":"coziness-with-donors-dogs-richardsons-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/04\/coziness-with-donors-dogs-richardsons-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Coziness with donors dogs Richardson’s campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> coziness with donors continues to grab national attention as he runs for president. <\/p>\n

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One of the top political stories across the nation today from the Associated Press<\/a> is about Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> signing a bill that will benefit a company that gave his gubernatorial re-election campaign $150,000.<\/p>\n

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The bill authorizes up to $500 million in taxpayer-subsidized bonds for a massive real-estate development in Albuquerque<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> being built by Forest City Covington. Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s spokesman said what his people always say \u2013 \u201cThe governor makes decisions based on what is best for the state.\u201d<\/p>\n

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I\u2019ve written before about how Richardson\u2019s insistence that he isn\u2019t influenced by massive gifts contradicts his assertion that state politicians, now that he has run in his last election in New Mexico, need to be subject to campaign contribution limits. You can read that by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It appears Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> was more interested, in light of his impending presidential run, in proving he could raise a ton of money than he was in setting the example for the rest of the state by voluntarily imposing on his 2006 campaign the standard he wants to become law for everyone else. It\u2019s not like he needed the money to beat John Dendahl.<\/p>\n

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The public can see that. So can national journalists. That\u2019s why it continues to gain attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s coziness with donors continues to grab national attention as he runs for president. One of the top political stories across the nation today from the Associated Press is about Richardson signing a bill that will benefit a company that gave his gubernatorial re-election campaign $150,000. The bill authorizes up to $500 million […]<\/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-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","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=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}