{"id":3398,"date":"2008-06-24T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T22:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/06\/guv-says-he-might-seek-a-third-term-in-2014\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T22:55:00","slug":"guv-says-he-might-seek-a-third-term-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/06\/guv-says-he-might-seek-a-third-term-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Guv says he might seek a third term in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Term limits prevent Gov. Bill Richardson<\/a> from seeking a third term in 2010, but he may run again when he\u2019s eligible four years later. <\/p>\n

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At least that\u2019s what Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> wrote today in an e-mail to supporters of his failed presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

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The e-mail solicited money to \u201ckeep New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> a blue state\u201d and \u201cget as many Democrats elected nationally as possible.\u201d Though Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s presidential campaign still has outstanding debt — more than $285,000 as of May 31 — he wrote in the e-mail that raising money to help elect Democrats \u201cis much more important.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Then he wrote about his own future.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI still have a lot of work to do here in New Mexico<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> before I leave office in 2010 due to term limits, including fighting to extend health care to every New Mexican. And I remain actively involved with national politics because we need to change America<\/st1:country-region> and every one of us has to contribute something,\u201d Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> wrote in the e-mail. \u201cBut who knows? Maybe I\u2019ll even decide to run for governor again in 2014 — if something else doesn\u2019t pop up in the meantime!\u201d<\/p>\n

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Many pundits have speculated that \u201csomething else\u201d might include vice president or secretary of state. Since ending his presidential campaign in January, Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> has remained on the national stage with diplomatic and other trips overseas and by campaigning for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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But running for governor in 2014 is not a prospect for Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s future that has been widely discussed. In response to an e-mail that asked, \u201cShould we assume he\u2019s kidding about running for governor again in 2014?\u201d Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> spokesman Gilbert Gallegos replied, \u201cI wouldn\u2019t make any assumptions.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Governors can serve two consecutive terms in New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> was elected in 2002 and re-elected in 2006, but can\u2019t run in 2010. After sitting out a term, he would be eligible to run again in 2014.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Term limits prevent Gov. Bill Richardson from seeking a third term in 2010, but he may run again when he\u2019s eligible four years later. At least that\u2019s what Richardson wrote today in an e-mail to supporters of his failed presidential campaign. The e-mail solicited money to \u201ckeep New Mexico a blue state\u201d and \u201cget as […]<\/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-3398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398","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=3398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}