{"id":528,"date":"2006-08-31T10:12:00","date_gmt":"2006-08-31T16:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/richardson-re-election-mailers-sound-like-hes-running-for-national-office\/"},"modified":"2006-08-31T10:12:00","modified_gmt":"2006-08-31T16:12:00","slug":"richardson-re-election-mailers-sound-like-hes-running-for-national-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/08\/richardson-re-election-mailers-sound-like-hes-running-for-national-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson re-election mailers sound like he’s running for national office"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Bill Richardson is talking about national politics to people all across America<\/st1:country-region> under the guise of being re-elected New Mexico<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> governor. <\/p>\n

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His re-election campaign has mailed thousands of fundraising letters that, according to the Albuquerque Journal<\/a>, \u201cat times read like they came from a national office seeker.\u201d<\/p>\n

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He blasts the Bush administration and promotes his own work on national and international issues. Three times in the letter, according to the Journal, he tells potential donors, \u201cI promise you I can show America<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place> a better way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cMy name is Bill Richardson and I\u2019m a Democrat who\u2019s not afraid to talk about what we Democrats stand for and what we have to do to turn our country around,\u201d the letter states.<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:city>\u2019s re-election campaign chair, Dave Contarino, told the Journal that, \u201cIf you\u2019re running in New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, but you\u2019re talking to a national audience, you have to address national issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

<\/o:p><\/p>\n

How convenient.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m writing to you because George Bush and the GOP smear machine have targeted me for defeat and I urgently need your help to fight off their attacks,\u201d Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> states in the letter, according to the Journal. \u201cThey know I can call them on their incompetence and show them how a real leader \u2013 a Democratic leader \u2013 can address our nation\u2019s problems.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s where it gets really interesting: Dendahl told the Journal that national Republican leaders are not targeting Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>, but he wishes they would. He has only $130,000 in the bank and said no national Republican groups have committed money to his campaign. Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> has some $5 million.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI remain hopeful,\u201d Dendahl told the Journal.<\/p>\n

<\/o:p><\/p>\n

While Dendahl works, thus far in vain, to make a dent in Richardson<\/st1:city>\u2019s fundraising and popularity, Richardson<\/st1:city> was in Arizona<\/st1:state> on Tuesday and Ohio<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> on Wednesday to campaign for candidates and garner national attention, according to another article in the Journal<\/a>. He\u2019s been all over the nation campaigning for other Democratic governors and gubernatorial candidates and members of Congress and congressional hopefuls.<\/p>\n

<\/o:p><\/p>\n

Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is demonstrating that he\u2019s so unconcerned about being re-elected here that he has time to win while also leading his colleagues across the nation to victory.<\/p>\n

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If Democrats like Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> that much, he probably should be running for president.<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s another question that should be asked: If Richardson is so influential, why aren\u2019t the national Republicans targeting him by giving Dendahl more money? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Richardson is talking about national politics to people all across America under the guise of being re-elected New Mexico governor. His re-election campaign has mailed thousands of fundraising letters that, according to the Albuquerque Journal, \u201cat times read like they came from a national office seeker.\u201d He blasts the Bush administration and promotes his […]<\/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-528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","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=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}