{"id":2114,"date":"2007-08-16T17:18:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-16T23:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/08\/richardson-aide-quits-after-felony-charges-surface\/"},"modified":"2007-08-16T17:18:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-16T23:18:00","slug":"richardson-aide-quits-after-felony-charges-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/08\/richardson-aide-quits-after-felony-charges-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson aide quits after felony charges surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RsTbgoBJ5wI\/AAAAAAAADI4\/UsF4KVgqnjM\/s1600-h\/Richardsonforpresident.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RsTbgoBJ5wI\/AAAAAAAADI4\/UsF4KVgqnjM\/s200\/Richardsonforpresident.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5099442031634802434\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>A day after <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richardsonforpresident.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> announced that he would <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/campaign-2008\/richardsons-nevada-operation-expands-in-edwardss-vacuum-2007-08-16.html\" target=\"_blank\">expand his campaign<\/a> in Nevada to fill the vacuum left by the retreating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnedwards.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">John Edwards<\/a>, one of the governor\u2019s top organizers in that state resigned today when the campaign learned he was a wanted man and had worked for a brothel.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWe did not know about all of this,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city>\u2019s spokesman in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:state st=\"on\">Nevada<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>, Josh McNeil, told the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap\/20070816\/ap_on_el_pr\/richardson_aide_resigns;_ylt=AvEGu3duyIO5jx0MIKjrWwBp24cA\" target=\"_blank\">Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cWe accepted his resignation today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Kristian Forland, until today, was the campaign\u2019s eastern <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Nevada<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> field director, the news service reported. He is wanted in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Los Angeles<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> for failing to appear in court on four felony counts of writing bad checks. He was also arrested twice \u2013 last month and last year \u2013 on bad-check charges in <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las Vegas<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The Associated Press said it\u2019s not clear if the <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Las Vegas<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> cases have been resolved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In addition, he was investigated by police in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Elko<\/st1:city>, <st1:state st=\"on\">Nev.<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>, after working at a legal brothel that was accused of shorting women on their pay, the news service reported. He was never charged in that case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The campaign hired Forland earlier this month to help <st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city> compete in rural <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Nevada<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, which is a GOP stronghold. According to the news service, he was vice chairman of the Elko County Democratic Party before taking the job with <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after Bill Richardson announced that he would expand his campaign in Nevada to fill the vacuum left by the retreating John Edwards, one of the governor\u2019s top organizers in that state resigned today when the campaign learned he was a wanted man and had worked for a brothel. \u201cWe did not know about [&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-2114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114","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=2114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2114\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}