{"id":4012,"date":"2008-11-21T17:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-21T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/cnn-richardson-appointment-not-a-done-deal\/"},"modified":"2008-11-21T17:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-21T23:04:00","slug":"cnn-richardson-appointment-not-a-done-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2008\/11\/cnn-richardson-appointment-not-a-done-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"CNN: Richardson appointment not a done deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SSc-taXPmMI\/AAAAAAAAJZc\/m9B5ciBMNeA\/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\/SSc-taXPmMI\/AAAAAAAAJZc\/m9B5ciBMNeA\/s200\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5271250838752303298\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite other reports to the contrary, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2008\/POLITICS\/11\/21\/transition.wrap\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNN<\/a> is reporting that Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a> is a \u201cserious contender\u201d for commerce secretary but his appointment is not a done deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cTwo sources close to the transition team also said Friday that Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico is a serious contender for commerce secretary, but he could be tapped for another senior post,\u201d the CNN report states. \u201cThe sources said they do not consider Richardson\u2019s appointment to the Commerce Department to be a done deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">There has been a lot of rumor-mongering in this entire process, so it\u2019s difficult to tell what\u2019s going on. It should be noted, in light of the CNN statement that Richardson could get another job, that the governor has also been named as being considered for secretary of state and interior secretary. Richardson has reportedly also told the Obama transition team he\u2019s interested in ambassador to China, special envoy to Latin America or heading the World Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite other reports to the contrary, CNN is reporting that Gov. Bill Richardson is a \u201cserious contender\u201d for commerce secretary but his appointment is not a done deal. \u201cTwo sources close to the transition team also said Friday that Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico is a serious contender for commerce secretary, but he could [&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-4012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012","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=4012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4012\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}