{"id":4007,"date":"2008-11-21T09:08:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T15:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/could-richardson-be-the-interior-secretary\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T09:08:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T15:08:00","slug":"could-richardson-be-the-interior-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/could-richardson-be-the-interior-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"Could Richardson be the interior secretary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SSbPXAMx1UI\/AAAAAAAAJY0\/-ARS_KO1EMI\/s1600-h\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SSbPXAMx1UI\/AAAAAAAAJY0\/-ARS_KO1EMI\/s200\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271128407981282626\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With it becoming increasingly likely that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hillaryclinton.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hillary Clinton<\/a> is going to be nominated to be <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/bloomberg\/20081121\/pl_bloomberg\/au6echjvvjlq;_ylt=AgGAd7vt2Ud3FuxJrMHmINWs0NUE\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama\u2019s secretary of state<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/a> name is popping up for another job: secretary of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doi.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Interior Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/ap_campaignplus\/20081120\/ap_ca\/obama_potential_appointees_11\" target=\"_blank\">The Associated Press<\/a> lists Richardson as a candidate for the job along with former Oregon Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/John_Kitzhaber\" target=\"_blank\">John Kitzhaber<\/a>, former Alaska Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tony_Knowles_%28politician%29\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Knowles<\/a> and Rep. <a href=\"http:\/\/mikethompson.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mike Thompson<\/a>, D-Calif. In such a role, Richardson would deal largely with western land issues about which he is already familiar. He would also deal extensively with the oil and gas industry and American Indian tribes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Richardson\u2019s spokesmen aren\u2019t commenting on anything related to a possible job in the Obama administration. While Richardson has been angling for secretary of state, his name has also been mentioned for a few other roles, including commerce secretary, but the chatter about two &#8212; ambassador to China and interior secretary &#8212; is the loudest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With it becoming increasingly likely that Hillary Clinton is going to be nominated to be Barack Obama\u2019s secretary of state, Bill Richardson\u2019s name is popping up for another job: secretary of the Interior Department. The Associated Press lists Richardson as a candidate for the job along with former Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber, former Alaska Gov. [&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-4007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007","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=4007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4007\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}