Breaking: Gov Pay-to-Play Richardson Drops Out Of Commerce Secretary Bid
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New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson’s dirty-politician “pay to play” past caught up to him today as he announced he was dropping out of the process to become Barack Obama’s Secretary of Commerce. Richardson dodges the obvious reason of corruption and instead claims it’s because the investigation would take too long:
“I have concluded that the ongoing investigation also would have forced an untenable delay in the confirmation process,” Richardson said. “Given the gravity of the economic situation the nation is facing, I could not in good conscience ask the president-elect and his administration to delay for one day the important work that needs to be done.”
Richardson said he will remain as governor and told Obama, “I am eager to serve in the future in any way he deems useful.”
The grand jury investigation into Richardson’s history of accepting campaign contributions in return for big dollar government contracts still continues.
Obama accepted Richardson’s resignation from the process and said,
“Governor Richardson is an outstanding public servant and would have brought to the job of Commerce Secretary and our economic team great insights accumulated through an extraordinary career in federal and state office,” Obama said. “It is a measure of his willingness to put the nation first that he has removed himself as a candidate for the Cabinet to avoid any delay in filling this important economic post at this critical time. Although we must move quickly to fill the void left by Governor Richardson’s decision, I look forward to his future service to our country and in my administration.”
So wait a second. Richardson is being investigated by a grand jury for accepting bribes just like another close Obama associate and Obama says he’s still looking forward to “his future service… in my administration”? What the hell??
Source: AP
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January 4th, 2009 at 4:11 pm
The plot thickens…
January 4th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
It appears to me that we have become the victims of egregious taxation without representation. Our “representatives” in the government have made it clear that they don’t give a tinker’s damn what We, the People, want or think. They do not fear our ability to remove them from office, perhaps because we have lost it (actually, had it stolen from us). We teeter on the brink of being taken over by fascist totalitarian elitists, but appear to be incapable of taking any action to stop it. Who will say, “To arms, to arms, the global fascists are HERE”? Wake up, Americans, ’cause it may already be too late…
January 4th, 2009 at 10:19 pm
You would THINK Obama’s 64-page questionnaire for potential posse members would have covered a federal investigation SOMEWHERE! Nice of Bill to throw himself under the bus, though.
January 4th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
It’s starting…one by one we’ll watch them fall.
January 5th, 2009 at 2:02 am
What the hell is right!!!! Is anyone else sick of these pathetic politicians who continue to believe they are above the law??? Obama’s statements are ludicrus and just shows how low he will stoop to keep people around him who will conceal his real identity!!! A Revolution may become a necessity!!
January 5th, 2009 at 8:49 pm
Apropos the idea of a revolution (or rebellion) being necessary, Lincoln, who the leftist media so want to liken Obummer to, said the following: “Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one that suits them better. This is a right – a most sacred right – a right, which we hope and believe , is to liberate the world. Nor is the right confined to cases in which the whole people of an existing government, may choose to exercise it. Any portion of such people that can, may revolutionize, and make their own, of so much of their territory as they inhabit.”
He also said, speaking of the American people, especially those in the South, “Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing Government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.” Food for thought…