That's his national reputation, but some beg to differ.

Gov. Bill Richardson even got Rush Limbaugh's attention -- and some warm praise -- back in 2004 when he pushed through a reduction in New Mexico's top income-tax rate.

And the Cato Institute's 2004 Fiscal Report Card on America's Governors gave Richardson a "B" calling him "an aggressive tax cutter, the best Democratic governor in the nation bar none," according to New Mexican Paul J. Gessing's article today in National Review Online.

Gessing -- president of the Rio Grande Foundation, an independent, nonpartisan, tax-exempt research and educational group that advocates limited government, lower taxes and personal responsibility -- tells a national audience that there's less than meets the eye in Richardson's reputation as a fiscal conservative -- especially after the recently completed legislative session.

Gessing -- who had an op-ed piece in the Albuquerque Journal this week blasting Richardson for vetoing anti-eminent domain legislation from this session -- suggests that Richardson is just another big-spending liberal for whom the 2004 income-tax cuts "appear to be an aberration."

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