{"id":537,"date":"2006-09-05T00:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-05T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/09\/richardson-campaign-defends-n-h-committee\/"},"modified":"2006-09-05T00:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-05T06:20:00","slug":"richardson-campaign-defends-n-h-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/09\/richardson-campaign-defends-n-h-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson campaign defends N.H. committee"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Last week I reported that Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s re-election campaign has started a \u201cRichardson<\/st1:city> for Governor\u201d political committee in New Hampshire<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>. It allegedly exists to be a mechanism for the governor to give money to candidates there and has, thus far, given $2,500 to the New Hampshire Senate Democratic Caucus. <\/p>\n

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I called this a \u201cflagrant\u201d precursor to a presidential campaign.<\/p>\n

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The governor\u2019s campaign wanted to respond. Here it is, unedited:<\/p>\n

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\u201cGovernor Richardson\u2019s primary goal is electing Democrats here in New Mexico<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>. Governor Richardson knows what it takes to win, and is working with New Mexico Democrats at every level to ensure victory in 2006.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMeanwhile, as a national leader and Chairman of the Democratic Governors Association, Governor Richardson is often called upon to help candidates from across the country. Laws in certain states require his campaign to file campaign finance reports when he lends those Democrats his assistance. Since his days as Chief Deputy Whip in Congress and as Secretary of Energy, he has consistently supported members of his party both in New Mexico<\/st1:state> and throughout the United States<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, Governor Richardson\u2019s campaign is a primary contributor to the Democratic Party of New Mexico, and is the largest contributor of both funds and resources to county Democratic parties and to the NM Victory 2006 coordinated campaign. The Governor has personally raised funds for more than 18 county parties, as well as for candidates for statewide office, the PRC and the state legislature.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIn addition to providing other candidates with polling, messaging and voter data, his campaign has opened offices in Las Cruces, Carlsbad, Las Vegas, Santa Fe, Clovis and Albuquerque and fielded grassroots organizers throughout New Mexico. Those organizers are running an aggressive grassroots voter contact program that will provide hundreds of thousands of New Mexicans with information on voting options and will turn out Democratic voters across the state. Finally, with an approval rating of 65% and a strong record of moving New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> forward, Governor Richardson himself will draw Democratic voters to the polls, which will help candidates up and down the ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n

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As I said last week, Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is attempting \u2013 apparently with success \u2013 to show he can easily win re-election, help New Mexico Democrats get elected and aid the campaigns of other Democrats around the nation all at once.<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s impressive, but I don\u2019t think even those who dislike Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> would say he isn\u2019t a skilled politician. He is showing that he\u2019s one of the best in the nation.<\/p>\n

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Is that a compliment? It depends on whether you like politicians.<\/p>\n

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Last week I reported that Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s re-election campaign has started a \u201cRichardson for Governor\u201d political committee in New Hampshire. It allegedly exists to be a mechanism for the governor to give money to candidates there and has, thus far, given $2,500 to the New Hampshire Senate Democratic Caucus. I called this a \u201cflagrant\u201d […]<\/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-537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537","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=537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}