{"id":3413,"date":"2008-07-01T14:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-01T20:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/07\/guv-may-help-clinton-with-debt-suggests-her-for-vp\/"},"modified":"2008-07-01T14:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-07-01T20:49:00","slug":"guv-may-help-clinton-with-debt-suggests-her-for-vp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/07\/guv-may-help-clinton-with-debt-suggests-her-for-vp\/","title":{"rendered":"Guv may help Clinton with debt, suggests her for VP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SGqY3i54FvI\/AAAAAAAAGGA\/8qGxpeqZsSY\/s1600-h\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp2.blogger.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SGqY3i54FvI\/AAAAAAAAGGA\/8qGxpeqZsSY\/s200\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218151198291924722\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Is Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a>, who was called \u201cJudas\u201d earlier this year for endorsing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barackobama.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryclinton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> in the presidential race, trying to make amends?  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city> caught attention this weekend by telling <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalradar\/2008\/06\/richardson-to-h.html\" target=\"_blank\">ABC News<\/a> on Sunday following an event in <st1:city st=\"on\">Chicago<\/st1:city> that he may help raise money to retire <st1:city st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:city>\u2019s presidential campaign debt by holding a fundraiser for her in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> later this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cWe\u2019ve been asked to help. So in principle we are going to help,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> told ABC. \u201cI think the party needs to come together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SGqY4GssLOI\/AAAAAAAAGGI\/zTuBH4FhuIs\/s1600-h\/Clinton,+Hillary.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp0.blogger.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SGqY4GssLOI\/AAAAAAAAGGI\/zTuBH4FhuIs\/s200\/Clinton,+Hillary.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5218151207900294370\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city> also caught attention on Saturday in <st1:state st=\"on\">Florida<\/st1:state>, where he told <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpbf.com\/politics\/16741362\/detail.html\" target=\"_blank\">WPBF-TV<\/a> in <st1:city st=\"on\">West Palm Beach<\/st1:city> that, if Obama doesn\u2019t pick him to be his running mate, he believes <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> \u201cwould make a strong running mate for Obama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Richardson, who was appointed by <st1:city st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:city>\u2019s husband to two high positions in his administration in the 1990s, was called Judas by <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> backer <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/James_Carville\" target=\"_blank\">James Carville<\/a> shortly after he endorsed Obama earlier this year. Last month, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/06\/11\/us\/politics\/11clinton.html?_r=2&amp;sq=mark%20Leibovich&amp;st=nyt&amp;oref=login&amp;scp=1&amp;pagewanted=print\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a> reported that <st1:city st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:city> backers were keeping a list of past allies who helped Obama instead of <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Clinton<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> in the primary.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is Gov. Bill Richardson, who was called \u201cJudas\u201d earlier this year for endorsing Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, trying to make amends? Richardson caught attention this weekend by telling ABC News on Sunday following an event in Chicago that he may help raise money to retire Clinton\u2019s presidential campaign debt by [&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-3413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413","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=3413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3413\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}