{"id":693,"date":"2006-10-10T08:50:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/running-for-re-election-campaigning-in-florida-and-talking-about-nukes-%e2%80%93-all-in-a-days-work\/"},"modified":"2006-10-10T08:50:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-10T14:50:00","slug":"running-for-re-election-campaigning-in-florida-and-talking-about-nukes-%e2%80%93-all-in-a-days-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/10\/running-for-re-election-campaigning-in-florida-and-talking-about-nukes-%e2%80%93-all-in-a-days-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Running for re-election, campaigning in Florida, and talking about nukes \u2013 all in a day’s work"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Gov. Bill Richardson was in Florida<\/st1:state> on Monday campaigning for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Davis (instead of educating New Mexico<\/st1:state> voters by debating his own opponent here), and talking with the national media about North Korea<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>\u2019s apparent nuclear weapons test. <\/p>\n

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The Albuquerque Journal\u2019s ABQNews Seeker<\/a> blog has the most humorous account, detailing Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s interview Monday with Wolf Blitzer on CNN. Richardson<\/st1:city> apparently called Blitzer \u201cChris\u201d twice during the interview, obviously referring to MSNBC\u2019s Chris Matthews, who Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> also spoke with Monday.<\/p>\n

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That left Blitzer to scratch his head and ask, \u201cI wonder who he\u2019s talking about,\u201d according to ABQNews Seeker.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s hard to keep track when you\u2019re in West Palm Beach<\/st1:city> running hard for re-election as governor of New Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>,\u201d notes the blog\u2019s Bruce Daniels in his posting.<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:city> appeared on the Today show this morning, telling Matt Lauer that the Bush Administration is \u201cfinally headed in the right direction\u201d by seeking U.N. sanctions of North Korea<\/st1:country-region><\/st1:place>, according to Daniels.<\/p>\n

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Richardson<\/st1:city> said the United States<\/st1:country-region> must get China<\/st1:country-region> to pressure the North, then set up its own face-to-face meeting with North Korea<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>.<\/p>\n

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In a separate article, Richardson<\/st1:city> told the Albuquerque Journal<\/a> he would be willing to negotiate with North Korea<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>, but said the Bush Administration should send its own representative.<\/p>\n

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Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M., who is in the fight of her life to keep her job, called for direct talks and said Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> could be part of the team.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBill Richardson has said we should open another channel of communication \u2013 well, send him as part of the delegation,\u201d the Journal quoted Wilson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> as saying.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI would do it, but only if the administration asks,\u201d Richardson told the Journal, but he suggested that the administration should send Christopher Hill, a State Department official with expertise on North Korea.<\/p>\n

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Update, 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

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The White House has rejected Richardson<\/st1:city>\u2019s suggestion of direct talks with North Korea<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region>. Click here<\/a> to read more.<\/p>\n

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Gov. Bill Richardson was in Florida on Monday campaigning for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jim Davis (instead of educating New Mexico voters by debating his own opponent here), and talking with the national media about North Korea\u2019s apparent nuclear weapons test. The Albuquerque Journal\u2019s ABQNews Seeker blog has the most humorous account, detailing Richardson\u2019s interview Monday […]<\/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-693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693","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=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}