{"id":4096,"date":"2009-01-04T16:15:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T22:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/01\/denish-calls-guvs-decision-a-postponement-of-his-exit\/"},"modified":"2009-01-04T16:15:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-04T22:15:00","slug":"denish-calls-guvs-decision-a-postponement-of-his-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/01\/denish-calls-guvs-decision-a-postponement-of-his-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Denish calls guv’s decision a postponement of his exit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Lt. Gov. Diane Denish<\/span><\/a> doesn\u2019t appear to have given up on the idea of becoming governor of New Mexico before the 2010 election.<\/p>\n

Pointing out that President-elect Barack Obama<\/span><\/a> says he looks forward to Bill Richardson\u2019s<\/span><\/a> \u201cfuture service to our country and in my administration,\u201d Denish is characterizing Richardson\u2019s withdrawal of his commerce secretary nomination<\/span><\/a> as a postponement of his leaving New Mexico to take a job in Washington.<\/p>\n

\u201cGov. Richardson postponed taking a position in the administration to ensure that President Obama and the American people face no delays in getting to work to fix our ailing economy, and the president-elect said he looks forward to Gov. Richardson joining his administration in the days ahead,\u201d Denish said in a statement released by her office. \u201cIn the meantime, Gov. Richardson and I will work together, as we have over the last six years, to tackle challenges at home, to craft a workable budget with the Legislature and to strengthen our economy to make sure that every New Mexico family has the opportunity to succeed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Denish, who is already a declared candidate for governor in 2010, spoke with Richardson this morning about his decision, according to the statement.<\/p>\n

In statements they released today, Richardson and Obama both characterized Richardson\u2019s withdrawal from consideration for the position as being Richardson\u2019s decision. In addition to saying he looks forward to Richardson joining his administration at a later time, Obama said the move is \u201ca measure of (Richardson\u2019s) willingness to put the nation first\u201d because it will prevent \u201cany delay in filling this important economic post at this critical time.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his statement, Richardson said he\u2019s confident the grand jury currently investigating allegations of pay-to-play in his administration — which led to his decision to withdraw his nomination — will clear him and his administration. He added that, \u201cfor now,\u201d he will remain governor, but said he told Obama that he is \u201ceager to serve in the future in any way he deems useful.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lt. Gov. Diane Denish doesn\u2019t appear to have given up on the idea of becoming governor of New Mexico before the 2010 election. Pointing out that President-elect Barack Obama says he looks forward to Bill Richardson\u2019s \u201cfuture service to our country and in my administration,\u201d Denish is characterizing Richardson\u2019s withdrawal of his commerce secretary nomination […]<\/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-4096","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096","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=4096"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4096\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4096"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4096"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4096"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}