{"id":3065,"date":"2008-04-03T14:32:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-03T20:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/guv-responds-to-new-allegations-about-endorsement\/"},"modified":"2008-04-03T14:32:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-03T20:32:00","slug":"guv-responds-to-new-allegations-about-endorsement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/04\/guv-responds-to-new-allegations-about-endorsement\/","title":{"rendered":"Guv responds to new allegations about endorsement"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> endorsement of Barack Obama<\/a> is earning him national headlines again today because of allegations that he told the Clintons<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> that Obama couldn\u2019t win the presidential race. <\/p>\n

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A Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> spokesman says the governor never said that. It\u2019s the latest in a string of back-and-forth exchanges between the governor and the Clinton<\/st1:City> campaign that has kept Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> in the national news since he endorsed Obama on March 21.<\/p>\n

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The newest exchange began late Wednesday when ABC News\u2019 George Stephanopoulos<\/a>, the former communications director in Bill Clinton\u2019s<\/a> administration, reported on the conversation Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> had with Hillary Clinton<\/a> when he told her he was endorsing Obama.<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> has said the conversation was heated, but neither has publicly revealed details. Stephanopoulos quoted \u201csources with direct knowledge of the conversation\u201d as saying Clinton<\/st1:city> told Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> that Obama \u201ccannot win, Bill. He cannot win.\u201d Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> disagreed, according to the sources.<\/p>\n

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Stephanopoulos also quoted \u201ca source with direct knowledge of Richardson<\/st1:city>\u2019s conversations with the Clintons<\/st1:city>\u201d who claimed that Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> told both Bill and Hillary Clinton earlier this year that he wouldn\u2019t endorse Obama because he didn\u2019t think he could win.<\/p>\n

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\u201cToo inexperienced,\u201d is how the source said Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> characterized Obama, according to Stephanopoulos.<\/p>\n

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That has led to a number of news outlets, including Talking Points Memo<\/a> and Time Magazine<\/a>, quoting people close to the Clintons<\/st1:city> as claiming Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said Obama could not win.<\/p>\n

Richardson<\/st1:city> has already repeatedly denied<\/a> telling the Clintons<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> that he would not endorse Obama, though Bill Clinton has claimed otherwise. In a statement provided to me, Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> spokesman Pahl Shipley also said the governor \u201chas never questioned Senator Obama\u2019s electability.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cHe believes Barack Obama is the right person to lead this country and he will be America<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>\u2019s next president,\u201d Shipley said. \u201cIn fact, the governor endorsed Senator Obama based on his ability to bring this country together both domestically and internationally.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe governor wants to move beyond this he said-she said nonsense,\u201d Shipley said. \u201cIt\u2019s irrelevant and petty. The focus should be on ending the war in Iraq<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, improving the economy and passing universal health care, which is exactly what Senator Obama is talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s endorsement of Barack Obama is earning him national headlines again today because of allegations that he told the Clintons that Obama couldn\u2019t win the presidential race. A Richardson spokesman says the governor never said that. It\u2019s the latest in a string of back-and-forth exchanges between the governor and the Clinton campaign that […]<\/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-3065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065","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=3065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3065\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}