{"id":995,"date":"2006-12-14T07:20:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-14T13:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/12\/governors-announcement-could-precede-s-c-trip\/"},"modified":"2006-12-14T07:20:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-14T13:20:00","slug":"governors-announcement-could-precede-s-c-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2006\/12\/governors-announcement-could-precede-s-c-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Governor&#8217;s announcement could precede S.C. trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RYFQVlgzgoI\/AAAAAAAAAGw\/YgVJZbw5q2s\/s1600-h\/RichardsonWatch.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RYFQVlgzgoI\/AAAAAAAAAGw\/YgVJZbw5q2s\/s200\/RichardsonWatch.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5008372592389882498\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The timeline is becoming clearer for Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s expected January announcement that he\u2019s forming an exploratory committee to begin a 2008 White House run.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">He has said he\u2019ll make a formal decision before the Legislature convenes on Jan. 16. And he told <a href=\"http:\/\/steveterrell.blogspot.com\/2006\/12\/richardsons-fox-pas.html\" target=\"_blank\">Steve Terrell<\/a> of the <st1:city st=\"on\">Santa Fe<\/st1:city> New Mexican that he would make the announcement in <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:state st=\"on\">New   Mexico<\/st1:state><\/st1:place>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">According to the South Carolina Democratic Party\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scdp.org\/blog.php\" target=\"_blank\">Web site<\/a>, <st1:place st=\"on\"><st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city><\/st1:place> is scheduled to be in that all-important state on Jan. 13 \u2013 the Saturday of the Martin Luther King holiday weekend \u2013 as the keynote speaker at the annual Governors\u2019 Appreciation Dinner honoring former Democratic governors in the state.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The only question is whether <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> will make his announcement before or after this trip. Conventional wisdom suggests doing it during a weekday, when there will be more people paying attention to media coverage, but <st1:city st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> has, at times, been one to make a splash over the weekend, when he\u2019s the only game in town to cover.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">But over the Martin Luther King Holiday weekend? Don\u2019t bet on it. People are traveling, not watching television.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">So it seems likely <st1:city st=\"on\">Richardson<\/st1:city> will head to <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">South Carolina<\/st1:place><\/st1:state> having already made the announcement \u2013 unless he plans to hold a press conference hours before the Legislature convenes at noon on Jan. 16. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The timeline is becoming clearer for Gov. Bill Richardson\u2019s expected January announcement that he\u2019s forming an exploratory committee to begin a 2008 White House run. He has said he\u2019ll make a formal decision before the Legislature convenes on Jan. 16. And he told Steve Terrell of the Santa Fe New Mexican that he would make [&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-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","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=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}