Keeping tabs on New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as he seeks the Democratic nomination for president …

    CULINARY TOUR: Good luck sticking to the liquid diet, governor. His latest swing through New Hampshire begins at 8 a.m. today at Consuelo’s Taqueria in Manchester and quickly moves to the Stonyfield Yogurt plant in Londonderry at 9:30 a.m. Then he tours a shipyard, attends a town meeting, yaks with Dartmouth Democrats and ends up at Village Pizza in Lebanon for dinner at 8:30 p.m.

    BACK TO NEVADA:
Richardson makes another trip to Nevada — a state he likes his chances in — later this month. On April 29 he’ll address the annual Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, an event hosted by the Carson City Democratic Central Committee in Carson City.

    NEW NUMBERS: Another California poll has Richardson tied with “other” at 4 percent. Survey USA’s poll was conducted in late March. A Florida poll by Quinnipiac University finds him polling at 2 percent in Florida.

    SMOKE THIS: The Huffington Post leads its page with news that Richardson signed the New Mexico medical marijuana bill and is the first candidate to officially back medical marijuana. That leads to two predictions from posters. First: “My guess is that poor Richardson won’t get the backing from pharmaceutical companies: Pfizer, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Wyeth, etc, etc. Cause god forbid that anyone needing medical help doesn’t get drugged up or high on one of the legal killers that the multi billion dollar companies supply for an already over medicated country.” Then, the opposite point of view: “If everyone that smokes pot would vote for Richardson he would win in a landslide … I would donate the cost of a fat sack to his campaign if he gets through the primaries!!”

    SECOND-HAND SMOKE:
The medical marijuana bill signing pushed Richardson’s name into some big mainstream media — The New York Times blog, CNN — and also some, um, specialinterest publications — High Times and Cannabis News.

By Leslie Linthicum, Journal staff writer.

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