{"id":4268,"date":"2009-02-22T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2009-02-23T04:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/02\/guv-skips-dc-meeting-with-obama\/"},"modified":"2009-02-22T22:24:00","modified_gmt":"2009-02-23T04:24:00","slug":"guv-skips-dc-meeting-with-obama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2009\/02\/guv-skips-dc-meeting-with-obama\/","title":{"rendered":"Guv skips DC meeting with Obama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SaIlgmHI-RI\/AAAAAAAAK5w\/XrI8OGn_zIo\/s1600-h\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 120px; height: 160px;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/SaIlgmHI-RI\/AAAAAAAAK5w\/XrI8OGn_zIo\/s200\/Richardson,+Bill.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305844552912402706\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Most of the nation\u2019s governors are in Washington this weekend to meet with President <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> and discuss how they\u2019re spending their chunks of the stimulus package. Notably absent from the events: New Mexico Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/governor.state.nm.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bill Richardson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nga.org\/portal\/site\/nga\/menuitem.b14a675ba7f89cf9e8ebb856a11010a0\" target=\"_blank\">National Governors Association<\/a> winter meeting kicked off on Saturday with governors outlining their plans to spend the cash and meet with some of Obama\u2019s cabinet secretaries, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2009\/02\/21\/AR2009022101682.html\" target=\"_blank\">Washington Post<\/a> is reporting. Tonight, they were to attend a black-tie dinner at the White House. Tomorrow morning, they will meet with Obama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But, the Post reported, Richardson didn\u2019t make the trip. The newspaper couldn\u2019t help but note the context: Richardson \u201cwithdrew in January as Obama\u2019s commerce secretary nominee amid a federal \u2018pay to play\u2019 investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Two Richardson spokesmen have not responded to an e-mail asking why the governor isn\u2019t in Washington for the events.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Alaska Gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/gov.state.ak.us\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Palin<\/a> is also skipping the events, the Post reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the nation\u2019s governors are in Washington this weekend to meet with President Barack Obama and discuss how they\u2019re spending their chunks of the stimulus package. Notably absent from the events: New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson. The National Governors Association winter meeting kicked off on Saturday with governors outlining their plans to spend the [&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-4268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268","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=4268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}