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Posted on 02/08/2009 1:53:19 PM PST by greyfoxx39
Federal investigators have been looking into the question for months: How did a Beverly Hills company that gave Gov. Bill Richardson's political committees more than $100,000 land a lucrative state financial adviser contract?
Joe Gosline has the same question — and he was one of the state officials who judged the contract proposals.
Gosline is a former controller and chief financial officer of the New Mexico Finance Authority, which awarded the contract to CDR Financial Products in 2004.
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He said six firms submitted proposals and recalled that CDR ranked middle to bottom.
When he asked what had transpired, Gosline said he was told, in effect: "Don't ask."
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One of two officials on the "staff evaluation team," Gosline said he was surprised when he later discovered that CDR had been elevated to second place and was recommended for state work.
CDR's selection by the NMFA has been the focus of a federal grand jury investigation that led Richardson to withdraw as nominee for commerce secretary in President Obama's administration.
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At the time the proposals were evaluated in 2004, Gosline and Mellor both reported to NMFA Executive Director David Harris, a former deputy chief of staff for Richardson who served a year at the NMFA. Harris took a newly created job as vice president for administration at the University of New Mexico in May 2004. His departure from the NMFA was announced just days after the March 2004 meeting in which CDR was hired.
Harris' attorney, Paul Kennedy, said last week that neither he nor Harris had any comment.
Mellor left the NMFA in 2006, following Harris to the University of New Mexico.
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... but, that’s just an isolated incident. Remember, the Republican Party is the Culture of Corruption - I know this because the NYT/LAT/Chi.Tribune/ABC/CBS/NBC/CNN/NPR/PBS told me so.
I have never driven through a large NM city on I-40 without major construction in progress. How are these construction contracts let out? Based on the length of the construction sites, I conjectured to my wife on the last drive through last summer than the money is probably in the signs controlling traffic flow.
I should have posted this earlier: To view the article for free, just click on the “trial pass” button.
Stealing that graphic...I think it will see a lot of use as I try to keep up with NM democrats....Thanks.
Simple. He gave Richardson 100,000 dollars. Duhhh.
This would be the REAL culture of corruption in action, folks.
I hope Homans is indicted, too. He’s a crook from way back.
What a picture of corruption among Bill Richardson Barry Obama and his cohorts and Bill's Barry's payoffs with state federal jobs.
There, fixed it for you...
Richardson: NM = Taft : Ohio
How did a Beverly Hills company that gave Gov. Bill Richardson's political committees more than $100,000 land a lucrative state financial adviser contract? Joe Gosline has the same question -- and he was one of the state officials who judged the contract proposals... He said six firms submitted proposals and recalled that CDR ranked middle to bottom.How long before "Joe the State Official" gets a drive by colonoscopy by the MSM?
Yes, just like the courageous Joe the Plumber. And, worse yet, the "drive by colonoscopy" will be aided and abetted by the NM state government, just like Joe the Plumber's was assisted by the Ohio state government.
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