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• So Much Gasbaggery, So Little Time

  
  The New Republic - Health Care Feed — Authority: 724
  Barack Obama convened his first official summit before he was even elected president. In October 2008, then-candidate Obama gathered a gaggle of business and political heavyweights--Paul Volcker, Eric Schmidt, Jennifer Granholm, Bill Richardson, etc.--in a Florida community college gymnasium for what his campaign ...
  5 hours ago

• Governor’s office: 59 political appointees to lose jobs

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 559
  Nearly 60 of Gov. Bill Richardson ’s political appointees will lose their jobs next month, the governor’s office announced today. Supervisors notified 59 exempt, or appointed, state employees that their positions are being eliminated, effective Jan. 8, in an effort to save about $8.3 million dollars and help ...
  14 hours ago

• Is Bill Richardson Heading for DC?

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 531
  Political watchers in New Mexico are buzzing about Gov. Bill Richardson’s presence at a White House State Dinner earlier this week. Politics Daily reports that speculation centers on Richardson taking a post in the Obama Administration , possibly an ambassadorship: (...) Read the rest of Is Bill Richardson ...
  5 days ago

• Obama: Disloyal, Ruthless, Cold

  
  Outside The Beltway | OTB — Authority: 694
  Wednesday’s column by Maureen Dowd , eviscerating President Obama for his shabby treatment of former White House Counsel Greg Craig and supporter Caroline Kennedy, is getting favorable responses from his supporters in the blogosphere. Only a year after he had helped Barack Obama get elected by eviscerating his ...
  6 days ago

• Was alcohol involved in Elephant Butte houseboat crash?

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 559
  Minutes after a houseboat piloted by Gov. Bill Richardson ’s chief of staff Brian Condit had crashed into another boat Sept. 5, a woman called 911 to report: “ The people who are driving it are drunk .” So writes Tom Cole in the Albuquerque Journal today, pushing the story about the boat crash at Elephant ...
  1 week ago

• The cronies, czars & corruptocrats at Obama’s first state dinner

  
  Michelle Malkin — Authority: 818
  If you want breathless, celebrity tabloid treatment of the first Obama White House state dinner — who wore what, who came with whom, what they ate — go somewhere else. This is a closer look at the cronies, czars & corruptocrats whom Obama wined and dined last night.- SEIU president/top White House visitor Andy ...
  1 week ago

• Is Bill Richardson Keeping Campaign Cash From Accused Ponzi Schemer?

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 767
  New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson did not give back donations to his presidential campaign from accused fraudster Hassan Nemazee, and Richardson may have also kept $5,000 given by Nemazee to his 2006 gubernatorial campaign. The donations to Richardson have come under increased scrutiny since Forbes reported last ...
  1 week ago

• Do You Think Prisons Should Be Privatized?

  
  Personal Blog of Justin Germino — Authority: 471
  The Governor of Arizona recently signed a bill into law that will allow for Arizona States Maximum Security prisons to be privatized. The governor did this in an attempt to save funding and cut the state budget, though the savings is estimated to be only between 1 – 2% of the budget. Bill Richardson a former Master ...
  1 week ago

• Governor, sportsmen don’t like proposed land swap

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 559
  Governor Bill Richardson echoed concerns made by sportsmen today about a land swap in the Whites Peak area . The Stanley Ranch is expected to get the land by exchanging 3,300 acres of its land for the 7,000 acres the State Land Office currently holds in the Whites Peak area. In a five-paragraph statement, ...
  1 week ago

• Richardson administration proposes overhauling low-income health insurance

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 559
  Gov. Bill Richardson ’s administration is proposing to overhaul Medicaid , the government’s low-income health insurance program, to cope with a projected budget shortfall of $300 million next year, the Associated Press is reporting. Human Services Department officials told lawmakers on Thursday that Medicaid ...
  1 week ago

• Questions surround State Investment Council money manager

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 559
  Hassan Nemazee, a longtime Democratic moneyman, was arrested last August and later accused of perpetrating a $292 million Ponzi scheme. Nemazee has pleaded not guilty to the bank fraud charges, but “it may be unsettling for New Mexico citizens to now learn that a New York firm that Nemazee partly owns has a ...
  1 week ago

• After Campaign Donations, Richardson Admin Gave Big Contract To Alleged Ponzi Schemers Firm

  
  TPMMuckraker — Authority: 767
  An investment firm partly owned by Democratic mega-fundraiser and accused Ponzi schemer Hassan Nemazee was awarded a New Mexico state contract in 2007 after Nemazee and an associate contributed to Bill Richardons gubernatorial fund, according to an excellent Forbes story published this morning. Nemazee, who was ...
  1 week ago

• Lyons calls guv’s furlough proposal ‘cruel’

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 559
  While Gov. Bill Richardson puts forward a plan to furlough state workers for five days over the holidays and into next year, state Land Commissioner Patrick Lyons says his own smart fiscal decisions mean he doesn’t have to do the same thing in his office. “(Richardson’s) plan won’t hurt the political ...
  2 weeks ago

• Trip’s morning reading: Prisons and education face cuts elsewhere

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 559
  Budget woes continue for states across the nation. Tennessee might release up to 4,000 non-violent felons , including those convicted for drug dealing, to deal with that state’s woes, the Nashville Tennessean reports. Meanwhile, Colorado can collect sales tax on medical marijuana , Attorney General John ...
  2 weeks ago

• Richardson unveils draft furlough plan

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 559
  Governor Bill Richardson took to his official blog to unveil a draft plan to implement the five days of furloughs he announced last week. The initial plan for the furloughs, which would include all employees except for “critical public safety and welfare positions,” is as follows: The draft plan outlines the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Richardson may be deposed in housing authority case

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 559
  Gov. Bill Richardson (Photo by Heath Haussamen) Gov. Bill Richardson may be asked to share, under oath, whether he knows anything about the scandal in the state’s housing authority system that culminated in 2006 with the default of $5 million in bonds owed to the State Investment Council (SIC). The SIC is ...
  2 weeks ago

• Early Wisc. Gov. prediction

  
  Haas414 — Authority: 469
  Barrett vs. Neumann in the general, assuming Barrett announces his intention to enter on Sunday . And I’d say Barrett will win it. Sure, he’s from Milwaukee, but this seems to be a tick in his favor. He’s shown he can hold the line on spending while also working to renovate and improve the city. His experience ...
  2 weeks ago

• Political appointees double dip–deep–into the state’s pockets

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 559
  Photo by Phoney Nickle. This week  Gov. Bill Richardson announced plans to end a policy that allows state workers to retire and then return to work, collecting both a salary and a pension. By the governor’s own count, more than 500 state workers are so-called “double dippers.” With the state facing a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Richardson announces budget balancing task force

  
  New Mexico Independent — Authority: 559
  Governor Bill Richardson announced a budget balancing task force as promised at yesterday’s press conference announcing his budget decisions. The task force will be chaired by Rick Homans, Secretary of the Taxation and Revenue Department. The task force will hold a public meeting on Monday, November 16th from 1 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Richardson announces budget task force

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 159
  Original Author:  Matt Governor Bill Richardson announced a budget balancing task force as promised at yesterdays press conference announcing his budget decisions. The task force will be chaired by Rick Homans, Secretary of the Taxation and Revenue Department. The task force ...
  2 weeks ago

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