January 5, 2009 - Governor Bill Richardson is withdrawing his nomination to be Commerce Secretary. The FBI is investigating his ties to a California company that did business with New Mexico and contributed to his campaign. The former Presidential candidate, Energy Secretary and U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. insists...
January 5, 2009 - With news of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson withdrawing from the Obama cabinet due to a pay-for-play investigation, it's now official: the corrupt State governor is the new perv...
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December 3, 2008 - Today, Bill Richardson accepted his safety cabinet position, Secretary of Commerce. The Latino community is predictably annoyed that their guy wasn't given State, which went instead to Hill...
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November 12, 2008 - Hispanic leaders are loudly calling for Barack Obama to pick New Mexico governor Bill Richardson for his Secretary of State. (No word whether they are also swigging tequila and firing their six-shooters into the air.)
Speculation about Barack Obama's cabinet has been swirling since the election, an...
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November 7, 2008 - Attention all Real Genius fans! Val Kilmer is considering a run for governor of his adopted home state of New Mexico. According to the New York Post, in a cell phone interview from Bulgaria (which raises a whole host of other questions), Kilmer said, "There's sort of a rumor...
August 26, 2008 - The Democratic National Convention got underway last night in Denver, with emotional appearances by Senator Ted Kennedy and Michelle Obama. The week of style over non-substance picks up again tonight with an eagerly anticipated speech from Hillary Clinton, and continues all week with remarks from Bi...
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August 20, 2008 - Barack Obama has settled on a running mate. The vetting process, which includes intense background checks of the candidate and his/her spouse, took longer than expected because Obama had to wait until Mrs. Clinton quit the race in June. Caroline Kennedy, along with Eric Holder, a former deputy attor...
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June 9, 2008 - As Hillary finally exits from the race with the grace of Michelle Obama assisting Stevie Wonder up a flight of stairs, one can't help but look back at the glory that was the democratic primary...
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May 30, 2008 - Just the other day (okay, a month and a half ago) I was having an off-the-record conversation with an extremely influential leader of the netroots community. How influential? Let me put it this way: Without him, there would be no Ned Lamont.
Given that triumph, we naturally wanted...
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May 14, 2008 - As West Virginians hand Hillary Clinton a landslide victory over her (black, totally black and FYI, nightmarishly black) rival, Barack Obama, it's still virtually impossible for Clinton to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, since Obama leads her by nearly 200 delegates and nobody's makin...
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April 9, 2008 - As Bill Clinton wends his way across the U.S. stumping for Hillary, he's been cornering hapless superdelegates along the way, trying to strong-arm them into supporting her campaign. The story that doesn't seem to be going away, however, is one invol...
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March 25, 2008 - Look, Hillary, I know when we started this thing you said you wanted a "conversation with America." Well, Hillary, it's time you listen to what I'm trying to say back to you.
I had a really great time. Really. A lot of fun. And if it were any...
March 25, 2008 - This weekend James Carville compared New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson to Judas, after Richardson shrugged off his alliances with the Clintons and gave his endorsement to Barack Obama. Referring to Holy Week...
March 24, 2008 - White people on FOX (that is, if you can include Italian-American Jeanine Pirro among "whites"; not sure the rest of them do) discuss Bill Richardson's ethnicity...