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Written by Jeff Jones
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created Wednesday, 11 July 2007
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He’s running. We’re watching.
Keeping tabs on Gov. Bill Richardson as he seeks the Democratic presidential nomination …
KEEPIN’ THE HEAT ON:
Richardson in a recent e-mail to supporters continued to criticize President Bush for his decision to commute the prison sentence of former vice president’s chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby.
“Every time I think George Bush and his administration have gone as far as they could, they sink to a new low,” Richardson said in a Friday email.
Bush recently commuted the 2 1/2-year sentence of Libby, who was convicted of lying and obstructing justice in an investigation concerning the leak of a CIA operative’s identity.
Bush has not ruled out a pardon for Libby, and Richardson in his e-mail included a letter to Bush urging him not to do that.
“ …If you want to preserve any of your credibility, you must not erase his crime completely,” Richardson wrote.
AND KEEPIN’ THE HEAT
ON: The New Mexico Republican Party, meanwhile, is accusing Richardson of hypocrisy on the Libby issue.
The party says Richardson’s campaign hit “a new low” when it criticized Bush for his handling of Libby.
The GOP points out that in 2004, Richardson commuted the life sentence of Janet Vigil, an Albuquerque woman convicted of killing her husband in 1988.
“Bill Richardson’s hypocrisy has hit a new low,” said Adam Feldman, the party’s executive director. “He commuted the sentence of a person convicted of 1st degree murder, and yet still has the nerve — and the arrogance, frankly — to criticize President Bush.”
A GOP news release pointed out that former Gov. Gary Johnson, a Republican, had denied Vigil’s request for clemency.
IOWA — AND MUCH MORE: Richardson will campaign in 10 states over the next 16 days, including three trips to Iowa, according to his campaign.
Richardson was to be in Iowa on Tuesday and today for numerous campaign stops. After a quick evening visit to Cincinnati, he is scheduled to head to Detroit for a Thursday NAACP candidate forum.
On Friday, Richardson is to be in Reno, Nev., to open a campaign office there. He has stops planned later that day in Utah and California.
Richardson is to be back in New Mexico on Saturday for fundraising and then is scheduled to head to Chicago for a Sunday candidate forum.
He is scheduled to be campaigning in New Hampshire July 16-17 and is to be back in Iowa July 19-21.
On July 22, the governor is to take his road show back to South Carolina, where a presidential candidate debate is scheduled for July 23.
Richardson is then scheduled to be in Iowa July 24-25.
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