{"id":812,"date":"2006-11-06T09:07:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-06T15:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/richardson-mailer-sent-to-wrong-address\/"},"modified":"2006-11-06T09:07:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-06T15:07:00","slug":"richardson-mailer-sent-to-wrong-address","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/richardson-mailer-sent-to-wrong-address\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson mailer sent to wrong address"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/Richardson%2C%20Bill.75.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.72.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>In my mailbox on Saturday was a flyer from the campaign of Gov. Bill Richardson urging me to \u201csend George Bush and the Washington Republicans a message: We need change.\u201d  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Though the mailer had our address on it, it wasn\u2019t sent to my wife or me. It was addressed to someone named Vanessa Gonzales.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">As far as I know, no one by that name has ever lived at this house, even before we owned it, and there is certainly not currently anyone with that name who is registered to vote at this location.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The mailer also has a section that is supposed to help Vanessa find her polling place. It says her voting location is <st1:placename st=\"on\">Riverside<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">Elementary School<\/st1:placetype> in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:placename st=\"on\">Sunland<\/st1:placename> <st1:placetype st=\"on\">Park<\/st1:placetype><\/st1:place>, almost 50 miles from my home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">If these sorts of mistakes happened on a widespread scale, the <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:City> campaign\u2019s attempt to help voters find their polling places could be a disaster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my mailbox on Saturday was a flyer from the campaign of Gov. Bill Richardson urging me to \u201csend George Bush and the Washington Republicans a message: We need change.\u201d Though the mailer had our address on it, it wasn\u2019t sent to my wife or me. It was addressed to someone named Vanessa Gonzales. As [&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-812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812","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=812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/812\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}