{"id":610,"date":"2006-09-22T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T22:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/09\/breaking-news-richardson-to-attend-whole-enchilada-fiesta-despite-shooting-threat\/"},"modified":"2006-09-22T16:22:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T22:22:00","slug":"breaking-news-richardson-to-attend-whole-enchilada-fiesta-despite-shooting-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/09\/breaking-news-richardson-to-attend-whole-enchilada-fiesta-despite-shooting-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING NEWS: Richardson to attend Whole Enchilada Fiesta despite shooting threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Richardson%2C%20Bill.60.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/Richardson%2C%20Bill.57.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Despite threats of random shootings in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Las Cruces<\/st1:city><\/st1:place>, Gov. Bill Richardson plans to attend the Whole Enchilada Fiesta Saturday morning.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cAfter consulting with DPS Secretary John Denko and other law enforcement agencies, I am confident this will be a safe, secure, and very successful event,\u201d <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said in a news release. \u201cI urge everyone to show their support for the city and the Whole Enchilada Festival and join us for a great weekend of fun, food, and entertainment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">In two letters, an anonymous writer has threatened random shootings if the city didn\u2019t pay an unspecified amount of money by today. The threat has many residents of the city on edge. Police are hunting for the writer, and the National Guard stands ready to respond if necessary.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">A reward of $51,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the letter writer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">City officials have said the fiesta will be the safest place in town this weekend with increased security and police presence. Apparently, <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> agrees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You can read more about the threat from the Las Cruces Sun-News by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcsun-news.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. You can watch a video message from the city police chief about the threat by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.las-cruces.org\/news\/docs\/romero.m3u\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\" class=\"MsoNormal\">Update, 5:40 p.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p><\/o:p>Gary King, the Democrats\u2019 candidate for attorney general, has announced he will also attend Saturday morning\u2019s parade despite the threat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite threats of random shootings in Las Cruces, Gov. Bill Richardson plans to attend the Whole Enchilada Fiesta Saturday morning. \u201cAfter consulting with DPS Secretary John Denko and other law enforcement agencies, I am confident this will be a safe, secure, and very successful event,\u201d Richardson said in a news release. \u201cI urge everyone to [&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-610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610","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=610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}