{"id":858,"date":"2006-11-09T18:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-10T00:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/richardson-to-decide-on-08-run-in-january\/"},"modified":"2006-11-09T18:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-10T00:37:00","slug":"richardson-to-decide-on-08-run-in-january","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/11\/richardson-to-decide-on-08-run-in-january\/","title":{"rendered":"Richardson to decide on &#8217;08 run in January"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/1600\/RichardsonWatch.43.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/5892\/2386\/200\/RichardsonWatch.41.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Gov. Bill Richardson says he\u2019ll decide in January whether to run for president in 2008.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">That statement, published in today\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abqtrib.com\/news\/2006\/nov\/09\/guv-encouraged-road-2008\/\" target=\"_blank\">Albuquerque Tribune<\/a>, shocked some I spoke with. Many had speculated that he wouldn\u2019t make an announcement until after the legislative session so he could keep his focus on accomplishing his goals there.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Were he already running for president, legislators would believe the ball is in their court because <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>\u2019s focus would be elsewhere, many told me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">I\u2019d argue that <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> is the sort of politician who believes he can run for president and accomplish his legislative goals at the same time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> said he\u2019s \u201cvery encouraged\u201d by what his gubernatorial slam dunk means for a possible 2008 presidential run, according to the Tribune. He said it\u2019s clear his policies are popular with voters in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">New   Mexico<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>, and said that would carry over to the national stage. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gov. Bill Richardson says he\u2019ll decide in January whether to run for president in 2008. That statement, published in today\u2019s Albuquerque Tribune, shocked some I spoke with. Many had speculated that he wouldn\u2019t make an announcement until after the legislative session so he could keep his focus on accomplishing his goals there. Were he already [&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-858","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858","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=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}