{"id":4158,"date":"2009-01-21T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/01\/obama-moved-quickly-to-halt-guvs-nomination\/"},"modified":"2009-01-21T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-21T22:35:00","slug":"obama-moved-quickly-to-halt-guvs-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/01\/obama-moved-quickly-to-halt-guvs-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama moved quickly to halt guv’s nomination"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nine hours.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how long it took Barack Obama\u2019s<\/a> transition team to ensure that Bill Richardson<\/a> was stripped of the title of \u201ccommerce secretary-designate\u201d once it became fully aware that a federal grand jury investigation into Richardson\u2019s administration in New Mexico might be a problem, according to an article in the New York Times<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw the problem, understood it, Bill understood it wasn\u2019t viable, and we stopped it,\u201d John Podesta, co-chairman of Obama\u2019s transition team, was quoted by the newspaper as saying.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Podesta refused to talk about how the decision to pull Richardson\u2019s nomination was made. Obama and Richardson have both insisted that it was Richardson\u2019s decision, but there\u2019s been a dispute between their two camps about whether Richardson disclosed the seriousness of the investigation to Obama and his transition team before Obama decided to nominate the New Mexico governor for the job.<\/p>\n

The article appears to make clear that, regardless of whether Richardson made the decision himself, it was the choice Obama\u2019s people wanted him to make.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the quick move by Obama once he understood the situation reveals his comfort with the responsibilities of leadership, according to the Times article. <\/p>\n

\u201cHe knows he\u2019s going to make mistakes. But he also knows that you\u2019ve got to do the best you can, make tough decisions and move on,\u201d the Times quoted Podesta as saying.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nine hours. That\u2019s how long it took Barack Obama\u2019s transition team to ensure that Bill Richardson was stripped of the title of \u201ccommerce secretary-designate\u201d once it became fully aware that a federal grand jury investigation into Richardson\u2019s administration in New Mexico might be a problem, according to an article in the New York Times. \u201cWe […]<\/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-4158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158","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=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}