{"id":1734,"date":"2007-05-17T08:02:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-17T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/richardson-to-make-2008-run-official-on-monday\/"},"modified":"2007-05-17T08:02:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-17T14:02:00","slug":"richardson-to-make-2008-run-official-on-monday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/richardson-to-make-2008-run-official-on-monday\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson to make 2008 run official on Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rkxgr4rd2VI\/AAAAAAAACVI\/ghXLir3h0pg\/s1600-h\/Richardsonforpresident.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/Rkxgr4rd2VI\/AAAAAAAACVI\/ghXLir3h0pg\/s200\/Richardsonforpresident.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5065529987950303570\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardsonforpresident.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> plans to make his presidential run official with an announcement in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Los Angeles<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> on Monday, the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070516\/ap_on_el_pr\/on_the2008_trail_33\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a> is reporting.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> announced on Jan. 21 that he was forming an exploratory committee as he began a run for president, but he has said repeatedly that there\u2019s no question he is running.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So Monday\u2019s announcement is simply a formality as he officially ends the exploratory committee and creates the presidential committee.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> will make the announcement at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lapressclub.org\/cms\/\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Press Club<\/a>. Several Hispanic leaders will stand behind <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> as the candidate, who says he\u2019s running not as a Hispanic but as an American who\u2019s proud to be Hispanic, attempts to highlight his heritage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">California<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> recently moved its primary to Feb. 5, making it critical to the nominee process. <st1:state st=\"on\">Florida<\/st1:state> and <st1:state st=\"on\">Nevada<\/st1:state> plan to hold their presidential nominating contests in January, so <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s ethnicity can play an important role early on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson plans to make his presidential run official with an announcement in Los Angeles on Monday, the Associated Press is reporting. Richardson announced on Jan. 21 that he was forming an exploratory committee as he began a run for president, but he has said repeatedly that there\u2019s no question he is running. So [&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-1734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734","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=1734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}