Posted on 11/04/2007 8:52:49 AM PST by george76
Democratic presidential candidate Gov. Bill Richardson has tapped into a pipeline of campaign cash from those who lobby government in his home state.
Critics said the contributions raise questions about whether Richardson has used his leverage as governor to help fund his presidential aspirations.
They also question whether his presidential campaign has become another avenue for state lobbyists to curry favor.
But Richardson contends campaign contributions don't influence him.
An Associated Press review of campaign finance reports finds Richardson has collected about $167,000 from lobbyists registered in the state.
The AP has also found that he's collected nearly $403,000 from executives and employees of companies and organizations represented by lobbyists during the first nine months of the year.
I still think it will be Al Gore.
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You think what will be Al Gore ?
Post 2 said:
“I said long ago that Richardson would be the democrat Nominee”
I responded by saying:
“I still think it will be Al Gore.”
Bill Richardson, anchor baby extraordinaire, is poised to make a surprising showing in the polls over the coming months. Of all the candidates for the Democratican nomination for President, he is probably the only one who has had REAL experience in ANYTHING.
Not that the experience is in anything that is all that beneficial to the future to the United States. After all, he was one of those who “negotiated” the current situation in North Korea, getting a bogus promise from Kim Jong-Il to stop work on uranium enrichment. And while he does look for a more orderly control of the US-Mexico border, he also looks favorably on vastly expanding the opportunities for Mexicans to gain more of the hospitality they now enjoy while in the US, by making this claim to benefits fully legal.
Is Richardson, on balance, a more intelligent choice than simply rubber-stamping Herself, the Cold and Joyless? Sure, but then, even Osama-Obama comes off as a better choice than somebody who ducks behind gender. Osama-Obama, to his credit, has not used the race factor to anywhere near the degree Herself has used the gender factor.
I must’ve misread that. I thought you were talking about VP nominees (and Gore, of course, could not serve again as VP). I just don’t see how Hillary doesn’t have it in the bag, and Fat Boy Richardson will be her running mate. Gore is a bit past attempting a Nixonesque ‘68-style comeback. If they try to take down Hillary, she’ll take the party down (she ain’t in the Senate because she wants to be Senator). I doubt all those FBI files were exclusively Republican, y’know ?
>>>I just don’t see how Hillary doesn’t have it in the bag
>>>Gore is a bit past attempting a Nixonesque ‘68-style comeback.
Not as per David Mixner. And he is one of the big time deciders as to who will benefit from his political action committees. He basically thinks Hillary is too old.
See this thread. I’ve added the info to it from Mixner:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1911243/posts
I think Al Gore is Running 2008
Hillary is a scant 5 months older than Gore. To say she is “too old” and Gore isn’t is ludicrous. He’s too far behind in the game. She has nothing else she intends to do but to win the Presidency in her own right. If Gore tries to get in, she’ll destroy him. Nothing on earth will get between her and the nomination.
Money From Lobbyists Flow To Richardson’s Campaign ...
the first mexican president of the US!!!
>>>Hillary is a scant 5 months older than Gore. To say she is “too old” and Gore isn’t is ludicrous.
What you seem to not understand is, it is irrelevant what you or I think. David Mixner created the Log Cabin and Victory Funds PACs. He decides who the groups will support. I told you, the info is on that thread to his discussions. So, think what you want, it is not for you to decide.
I read that already. If Mixner tries to dump Hillary, he’ll have a little “accident.” Nothing gets in her way.
Nothing.
count the peace pipes, arrowheads, buffalo headed nickles and old parchment paper treaties too............this snake among snakes will milk the native Americans again too.
In the hierarchy of evil, Mixner is over Hillary. He recruited Bill Clinton.
Doesn’t matter.
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