January 04, 2009
— DrewM Hope, Change and Corruption!
New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, tapped in December by President-elect Barack Obama to serve as secretary of Commerce, has withdrawn his name for the position, citing a pending investigation into a company that has done business with his state."Let me say unequivocally that I and my Administration have acted properly in all matters and that this investigation will bear out that fact," he said Sunday in a report by NBC News. "But I have concluded that the ongoing investigation also would have forced an untenable delay in the confirmation process."
He's staying on as Governor of New Mexico, which is apparently a non-partisan position since the fact that Richardson is a Democrat isn't mentioned in the story.
Richardson is under investigation in a 'pay to play scheme' (sound familiar?) involving a company that received a state contract after making a contribution to Richardson's political action committee.
I never got why Richardson even wanted to be Commerce Secretary. I mean, he's been in charge of a second tier department (Energy) and been UN Ambassador. It seems being Governor in a cool place like New Mexico would be better. He must love the DC social life. Oh well Bill...no cocktail parties for you.
You know, an awful lot of Democrats are involved in some shady deals. Perhaps we could tie these things together and give them a slogan. Maybe something like 'culture of corruption'. Nah, that's just crazy talk.
In related news, popcorn futures have skyrocketed.
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Posted by: andi sullivan at January 04, 2009 08:32 AM (55TIb)
Not that MSNBC would want to mention, but the "company that has done business with [Richardson's] state" did similar work for Jefferson County (search for "largest municipal bankruptcy in US history"). From Bloomberg: "Beverly Hills, California-based CDR Financial Products Inc., received almost $1.5 million in fees from the New Mexico Finance Authority in 2004 after donating $100,000 to Richardsons efforts to register Hispanic and American Indian voters and pay for expenses at the Democratic National Convention in 2004".
Posted by: bgates at January 04, 2009 08:34 AM (kAULt)
Posted by: Unclefacts at January 04, 2009 08:35 AM (M+Vfm)
Angry White Dude
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Posted by: Fish at January 04, 2009 08:49 AM (CG+cG)
Hope! Change!
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Posted by: Barak Obama at January 04, 2009 09:04 AM (iafWn)
Of course, I could be over-theorizing, like when I'm reading a mystery and I always start suspecting 18 different people of being the murder with really great intricate motives, and then it's really the chambermaid or something. Like that.
Posted by: Ella at January 04, 2009 09:04 AM (jeP9I)
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Posted by: bregerbilder at January 04, 2009 09:08 AM (ItJuJ)
Posted by: Barak Obama at January 04, 2009 09:09 AM (iafWn)
I never got why Richardson even wanted to be Commerce Secretary.
Oh that's an easy one. The Commerce Department is the Mother Of All Corruption Opportunities. Think about it: as Commerce Secretary your job mainly is to promote American business. There's quite a few companies who would like to see their business promoted just a tad bit more aggressively than the other guys'. And the Commerce Secretary is more than happy to oblige under the 'right set of circumstances'. Plus you get the inside scoop on all sorts of American industries. You'd be a hot commodity as a lobbyist once your tenure as Commerce Secretary is over. Plus, your name basically stays out of the press unless you do something really stupid so you don't suffer the same scrutiny as many of the other cabinet secretaries. In short, Commerce is a sure path to riches.
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Posted by: bergerbilder at January 04, 2009 09:18 AM (ItJuJ)
Unclefacts, I might run low on popcorn. Got skittles?
Thanks.
Posted by: sickinmass at January 04, 2009 09:20 AM (/i4dU)
Posted by: CoolCzech at January 04, 2009 09:23 AM (iafWn)
Un hombre tiene que alimentar a su familia, y eso el arroz y las habas don' t viene libremente.
Posted by: El Flaco Richardson at January 04, 2009 09:26 AM (3Bqev)
Wow, another corrupt appointee. I don't recall any president to be surrounding himself with such corruption before he even took office. Just another example of Narccist elect judgement. When he said "change" what he meant was he is going to change the level of corruption and incompetancy in his admin and himself by raising it to a higher level never seen before.
And yet trolls and feeblemi nded stil ldefend him and his choices. Then again, they would defend him if he hooked them up with a Nigerian Prince that has money for them...all for a fee of course. Deep down, even liberals know he's dirty to the core and a disaster to lead this country but they are willing themselves into being totally blind
Posted by: sucker! at January 04, 2009 09:26 AM (lFi0+)
Posted by: hutch1200 at January 04, 2009 09:27 AM (y7kTR)
Posted by: hutch1200 at January 04, 2009 09:29 AM (y7kTR)
Commerce Secretary too.
Posted by: Kevin at January 04, 2009 09:31 AM (KO6dP)
It was nice of Bill to lay down under the bus all by himself.
Surely Bam-Bam's arms are getting tired, what with having to throw every person he's ever met under there.
Have we ever even heard of one associate of Bambi's that wasn't a criminal, racist and/or terrorist? Anyone? Ever?
I'd say his typical white grandmother was okay, but he's already called her a racist, too...
Posted by: jana at January 04, 2009 09:32 AM (vSRlG)
Posted by: Jimmy at January 04, 2009 09:35 AM (/Ft4q)
Posted by: Mayor Johnson at January 04, 2009 09:41 AM (DBS+D)
>and give them a slogan. Maybe something like 'culture of corruption'
"Corruptocrats" ought to sum it up perfectly.
Posted by: mblive at January 04, 2009 09:46 AM (Ywilw)
Posted by: Hillary at January 04, 2009 09:54 AM (X6Zdh)
My comment at Hot Air:
Someone with some musical talent really needs to do Obama singing Under My Bus (ala Jaggers Under My Thumb)!
I feel a bit ashamed I didn't post it here, but that's where I was when the muse touched me!
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Posted by: hutch1200 at January 04, 2009 10:28 AM (y7kTR)
Been checking UPS, but they say they lost it somewhere over Minnesota...
Posted by: Unclefacts at January 04, 2009 10:40 AM (M+Vfm)
Heh. "After being notified of the situation and after researching the matter ... I came to the conclusion that I was not drafted by the A's."
In other news, after being notified of the situation and having now researched the matter, I have come to the conclusion I was not just elected President of the United States. And after all the stuff I've told my friends and family ... color me embarrassed.
Posted by: Evil Murderous Republican Fascist at January 04, 2009 10:41 AM (JyfVU)
Posted by: Ginger at January 04, 2009 10:43 AM (wXwtP)
Of course, this won't be the last. Obama was able to throw him under the bus before the ascension, but the Dems are awash in corruption from top to bottom. It'll be like Ed Koch. Everybody around him is corrupt but he just smiles and the media shrugs.
Of course, I could be over-theorizing, like when I'm reading a mystery and I always start suspecting 18 different people of being the murder with really great intricate motives, and then it's really the chambermaid or something. Like that.
With democrats, it's like Murder on the Orient Express -- everybody did it.
Posted by: AmishDude at January 04, 2009 10:44 AM (GlrN/)
Posted by: thirtypundit at January 04, 2009 10:46 AM (Qd57B)
Bill just didn't have the stones of a Blago.
Posted by: AmishDude at January 04, 2009 11:03 AM (GlrN/)
Posted by: markytom at January 04, 2009 11:06 AM (hdoS2)
Michele Obama Ordered To Stop Practicing law.
It seams the future first lady has been court ordered to stop practicing law.
Great family going to be running this country.? What the heck were they thinking? Oh wait, they don't know how to think anymore. I forgot. You know.
Posted by: sickinmass at January 04, 2009 11:11 AM (/i4dU)
The Secretary of Commerce has what? A lame bureaucracy and Washington MSM scrutiny (not much but more than New Mexico).
Posted by: SlaveDog at January 04, 2009 11:19 AM (6Gy0q)
"Look, Obama's wife got multiple years of a $ 200K raise from just one earmark and Clinton got half a million for a single pardon." remembered a close observer. "That's what I'm talkin' about" said Attorney General nominee Eric Holder: "We have high standards - the quid has to be balanced with the quo."
Posted by: Robert at January 04, 2009 11:21 AM (VotgB)
Posted by: SlaveDog at January 04, 2009 11:21 AM (6Gy0q)
There are two other issues about BR that you won't hear from almost anyone else: one of his questionable quotes, and the fact that even as he was running for president he was shilling for a pan national group. Details at my name's link.
It would be nice if others could have pushed those any time during the past year or two rather than having to wait for things like this.
Posted by: BR backgrounder at January 04, 2009 11:26 AM (CmcMj)
There doesn't seem to be much beyond she got out of practicing law and didn't pay to keep her license current.
She could apparently get it back by paying the regular registration fees.
Posted by: DrewM. at January 04, 2009 11:36 AM (hlYel)
When I quit laughing i'll wait for someone to name the one 'honest' person B Hussien O has ever had as a friend or business associate. Crickets chirping for days........
M.O.s license is listed as inactive due to a disciplinary order. She didn't quit, she lost it for some crime that will always be buried in the criminal world of Il. The paperwork is probably buried with Hoffa.
Liberals are at the beginning of becoming the laughing stock of the world.
Posted by: Scrapiron at January 04, 2009 11:46 AM (8nB5X)
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Posted by: Lisa at January 04, 2009 12:24 PM (2MRQo)
Richy was working with the Peanut Fahmuh, another weapons-grade dupe, when he made his initial bones as a Commie Symp.
We gave them BILLIONS in cash, food and fuel oil, along with nuke tech and uranium, in return for their promise they'd play nice and not sell WMD to any state with extra cash. This of course occurred during the Golden Age of Bubbaville, when all was perfect in the world. His paramour, the beloved MLEBW ( Monica Lewinskys' ex-boyfriends' wife) will soon be our SecState .... can we say BF II ? I'm buying stock in Johnson&Johnson KY Jelly
Billy Rich next achieved World-Class Ineptitude when he shone as SecEnergy, prosecuting the guy who'd ferreted out the spies in the national lab system ( Notra Trulock) and supervising the biggest spy penetration in history, equal to the Rosenberg Kidz. He and Hazel "we doan need no steenkeeng security Badges" O'Leary, and Federico Pena were political appointees of the Deep Fried Grifter. Of course the Chinks had been cultivating Bubba since he was governor of Arkansas, and a few millions in chump change gave them tech they'd have needed decades to achieve themselves. Props to Bernie Schwartz/LORAL and the good folk over at Boeing and GD too. Keep up those lessons in Cantonese !
Of course here in New LaRaza-ville, Senor Fat-Ass has taken us half a BILLION in the whole, with his train fiasco and a ... ready ? ... SpacePort ! Because this 17th century mestizo backwater territory has so many chongos and chongas who wanna fly eento space. Si ? And de eeconomee, es muy bueno, no ? We take a treep into space
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Posted by: Rocks at January 04, 2009 12:31 PM (7rbe9)
Posted by: robtr at January 04, 2009 12:38 PM (uJzOr)
An awful lot of obama's team seem to be losers, perhaps they have nothing left to lose so join obama....you don't know what might develop.
Richardson joined for the plunder, which I suspect is what a lot of obama's people will obtain (including obama....he makes grifting look like an art, unlike clinton who grifted as a profession).
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Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 04, 2009 02:30 PM (zx0ey)
I suppose it would be too much to ask that he genuinely cross the aisle and pick someone like Romney, huh? And, too friggin bad that Snow was as shitty a Treasurer as he was a railroader because there are some damned fine railroaders out there who could do the job. Michael Ward would make John Snow look like a short-busser by comparison.
A girl can dream, right?
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Posted by: CoolCzech at January 04, 2009 02:54 PM (iafWn)
You are forgetting Spitzer. We have already had 3 CORRUPT DEM GOVERNORS in the last calendar year alone. Does the media report on this...not so much. I am waiting for the other 2 dozen dem governors to get exposed.
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"Yo, Homie, I gots some fine poontang over here...all its gonna cost you is $500.00 for some 'pay to play" action, you know what I mean..."
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