Posted on 05/17/2007 9:07:34 PM PDT by monomaniac
Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will be in Los Angeles on Monday to formally announce his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president in 2008. He has been campaigning for weeks and appeared already in the lone Democratic presidential debate but his announcement will make it official.
The event will take place at the Los Angeles Press Club and Richardson will be surrounded by Hispanic leaders as he tries to emphasize his role as the only top Latino candidate of either political party.
The event also underscores the presidential primary California will hold on February 5th as the state joined several others to move up in the calendar and have more influence on the nomination process.
Richardson, who has held other top government posts, is a strong abortion advocate.
While in Congress, Richardson compiled only an 8% pro-life voting record on 79 roll call votes on pro-life issues during his tenure, according to National Right to Life.
During the 2004 presidential elections, he lent his support to the launch of a NARAL fundraising campaign that collected more than $25 million to elect pro-abortion presidential nominee John Kerry.
Richardson also supports embryonic stem cell research which involves the destruction of human life.
Last November, he said he wanted the New Mexico state legislature to force taxpayers to spend millions of dollars promoting the unproven science. He said he wanted to spend $10 million in state funds to make the University of New Mexico a leader in the controversial field. http://www.lifenews.com/bio1832.html
Richardson made it clear his policies would be a departure from those of President Bush, who has been lauded by pro-life groups for his strong stance and actions on numerous issues.
“I am taking this step because we have to repair the damage that's been done to our country over the last six years,” Richardson said earlier this year in announcing an exploratory committee.
Although he isn't listed among the top three candidates on the Democratic side -- New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama and former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards get that distinction -- he has raised $6 million in the first three months of the year.
Richardson could wind up a vice-presidential nominee if he doesn't get the party's nod as a nominee could find his Hispanic status, Western ties, and ability to carry a toss-up state crucial.
He served as United Nations ambassador and Energy secretary under President Bill Clinton and was a member of the House of Representatives from 1983 to 1997.
He voted that 8% to make sure there were plenty of babies to abort so Planned Parenthood wouldn't go out of business.
Surrounded by his friends from La Raza.
Just another latino with family values.
What an idiot. The MSM loves Obama and the DNC is forced to take Hillary. The other Dem fringe voters already have their also ran candidates. There’s no room left in the sinking lifeboat
how’s that fat piece of lard think he has a chance against hillary and obama?
Guillermo (mexcian mom) Richardson is pro infanticide. A real good Roman Catholic isn’t he...
Ahhh... he's just trying to one up Giuliani. No worry. Rudy can out abort him.
ROFL! *snort*
Damn look like Chia Pet little b***h want run on pro abortion platform
..........or.......he’s trying to position himself for Hillary’s VP.
More disgusting news for sure.Another dirtbag rat bastard.
...Hillary’s VP.
Ding ding ding, we have a winner!!
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Very cute post!
Another monster rears its head out of the cesspool that is the Democratic Party. His pro-life record of 8% might be a little risky for the pro-aborts. They’d prefer a full out one like Obama who didn’t even want protection for infants born alive.
Come on people. We cut this bozo way too much slack. He was a bagman for Clinton. Clinton sent him over to North Korea to bribe them to hide there nuke productuion until Clinton got out of office. He delivered actual suit cases of freshly printed money Kim EL jung. A total of $360,000,000 of your money went right to plutonium production.
But the most pathetically slimmy thing he did was meet Monica Lewinsky at the Watergate hotel and offer her a job to keep her mouth shut on Bill. Actually happened. Vernon Jordan was a witness to this witness tampering and try that during an investigation in your home town and hopefully you can take your favorite tooth bruch to jail with you. Richardson is a sruz bag of the lowest order.
Richardson wants American babies aborted so his Mexican illegal alien friend’s babies will take their place in the democrat Socialist voting machine.
Not hard to figure -
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