{"id":4009,"date":"2008-11-21T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T17:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/ok-what-about-commerce-secretary\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T11:50:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T17:50:00","slug":"ok-what-about-commerce-secretary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/ok-what-about-commerce-secretary\/","title":{"rendered":"OK, what about commerce secretary?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SSb1Mri6ucI\/AAAAAAAAJZE\/6HzHmKMN8r4\/s1600-h\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SSb1Mri6ucI\/AAAAAAAAJZE\/6HzHmKMN8r4\/s200\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271170012080159170\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/haussamen.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/could-richardson-be-interior-secretary.html\">I reported earlier<\/a> that Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> is being named as a possible interior secretary since it\u2019s 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>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Now the Washington Post blog <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/thefix\/2008\/11\/richardson_to_commerce.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Fix<\/a> is reporting that Richardson, according to \u201ca Democratic official close to the proceedings,\u201d has emerged as a \u201cserious contender\u201d to head the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commerce.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Commerce Department<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The job was originally thought to be going to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Penny_Pritzker\" target=\"_blank\">Penny Pritzker<\/a>, who was finance chairwoman for Obama\u2019s campaign, but she has removed herself from consideration because of business ties and her concern that she wouldn\u2019t survive the vetting process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Sources close to Richardson have whispered for weeks that, in addition to expressing interest in secretary of state, the governor told Obama he was interested in commerce secretary, ambassador to China, special envoy to Latin America and head of the World Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I reported earlier that Gov. Bill Richardson is being named as a possible interior secretary since it\u2019s becoming increasingly likely that Hillary Clinton is going to be nominated to be Barack Obama\u2019s secretary of state. Now the Washington Post blog The Fix is reporting that Richardson, according to \u201ca Democratic official close to the proceedings,\u201d [&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-4009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009","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=4009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}