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N.M. Gov Admits He Wasn't Baseball Pick [Richardson - "I never tried to embellish this,"...]
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Posted on 11/24/2005 12:42:30 PM PST by Sub-Driver

N.M. Gov Admits He Wasn't Baseball Pick

13 minutes ago

Gov. Bill Richardson is coming clean on his draft record — the baseball draft, that is, admitting that his claim to have been a pick of the Kansas City A's in 1966 was untrue.

For nearly four decades, Richardson, often mentioned as a possible Democratic presidential candidate, has maintained he was drafted by the Kansas City Athletics.

The claim was included in a brief biography released when Richardson successfully ran for Congress in 1982. A White House news release in 1997 mentioned it when he was about to be named U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. And several news organizations, including The Associated Press, have reported it as fact over the years.

But an investigation by the Albuquerque Journal found no record of Richardson being drafted by the A's, who have since moved to Oakland, or any other team.

Informed by the newspaper of its findings, the governor acknowledged the error in a story in Thursday's editions.

"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," he said.

Richardson spokesman Gilbert Gallegos declined to comment when reached by the AP on Thursday.

Richardson, a right-handed pitcher who played at Tufts University, said he was actively scouted by several major league teams in the 1960s.

He insisted his name appeared on "a draft list of some kind" created by the Los Angeles Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates. He named team scouts, whom he said told him that he "would or could" be drafted. The scouts have since died.

Richardson later developed arm trouble, eliminating any possible pro career.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California; US: District of Columbia; US: Kansas; US: New Mexico
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To: Sub-Driver
Love the quote. As if you wouldn't know if you had been drafted by a professional baseball team or not! And how sad is it that he's gotten away with this story for 20, 30, 35+ years? Where the hell has the Media been? If he'd been a Republican...

He's from the Clinton administration so it's not a surprise at all. Look at M. Larry Lawrence, the "merchant marine" hero who never was either of those and had to be exhumed from Arlington!

Of course this is out there so if he's a running mate or whatever in 2008 he can say "that's old news" let's "move on" and get away with it.

141 posted on 11/25/2005 5:24:03 AM PST by newzjunkey ("After researching the matter ... I came to the conclusion the moon is NOT made of green cheese")
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To: Sub-Driver

I expect the spin to evolve into "I was actually scouted by KC" which really only means that a scout once attended one of his games or something.

If Hillary can get away with all the lies from her past, why should this stop Richardson?


142 posted on 11/25/2005 6:11:33 AM PST by TommyDale
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To: Texas Eagle

It's Albert Arnold Gore, Jr.


143 posted on 11/25/2005 6:13:15 AM PST by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: VOA
In my old neighborhood, Red used to wear 3 watches - one was set to Chicago time, one to London (UK), and one to Warsaw. That way he could tell if he was on time anywhere he had ever lived.

Of course, he also used to pitch for the Cubs every Sunday afternoon - at least that's what he told us before he walked into the secret entrance to Wrigley Field which was located behind the door of a tavern at Lawrence and Austin...

144 posted on 11/25/2005 6:16:20 AM PST by Bernard (You can either deal with your situation or be a liberal about it.)
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To: IndyTiger

I think you are right on target: it will be Bayh, unless he does something before 2008 to alienate the clintoid appartatus. And all she has to do to win is take OH! All the other 2004 Kerry states are automatically in her column. She won't even need IN, just OH. She is seriously on her way. I think that many of her supporters are just long-term admirers of Bill Clinton, thinking that victory for HRC will somehow result in Bill Clinton "taking care" of them again. Of course, he is taking care only of himself, but his supporters, many of most limited education and moral principles, don't understand the dichotomy. Remember the old poll that showed something like only 2 percent of the public said that their own moral principles were lower than those of their idol Bill Clinton. It's hard to admit it, but millions of Americans really do BELIEVE in the Clintons, and I don't think we can do a thing about it. These Clintons have their own pipeline to the American voter.


145 posted on 11/25/2005 6:17:45 AM PST by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: technomage
If you were drafted by a professional sports team, believe me, you would remember that day for the rest of your life.

As in 'etched indelibly' in my memory?

146 posted on 11/25/2005 6:24:36 AM PST by BluH2o
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To: Sub-Driver
It seems that even governors can be afflicted by SMSMS.

Tragic.


[See link for a brief discussion of the malady SMSMS.]

147 posted on 11/25/2005 6:28:54 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Sub-Driver
"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," he said.

Seared in his memory, it was.

Opps, wrong embellisher.
148 posted on 11/25/2005 6:32:23 AM PST by TomGuy
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To: Sub-Driver
Between Worlds: The Making of an American Life Lie

(Hardcover)

by Bill Richardson



http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399153241/104-6934782-6821554?v=glance&n=283155&n=507846&s=books&v=glance
149 posted on 11/25/2005 6:44:30 AM PST by maggief
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To: Sub-Driver

This smacks of Al Gore. What is with these democrats and a pathological desire to invent stories about themselves?


150 posted on 11/25/2005 9:14:05 AM PST by Cinnamon Girl (OMGIIHIHOIIC ping list)
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To: Cinnamon Girl

In the middle 1950s, there was a Republican congressman from UT who invented a WWII "hero" story about himself. When the facts were uncovered, he was so disgraced that he may have resigned. I think his name was "Stringfellow."


151 posted on 11/25/2005 9:17:44 AM PST by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: Theodore R.

It was Douglas Stringfellow, R-UT, who withdrew from a 1954 reelection race after his WWII fabrication was uncovered.

There are archival papers including a typed autobiography, newspaper clippings, letters received, typed copies of speeches, and newsletters entitled: “Day to Day with Doug.” The materials deal with his motivational speeches before he was a congressman and his congressional career. The autobiography is an attempt by Douglas R. Stringfellow to correct his war experiences and his various activities after he realized he had lied.

Papers: 1952, 1 item.
A typescript of a speech taken from the included sound tapes. The speech was given at Brigham Young University on 22 May 1952. Douglas Stringfellow claims to have been captured and tortured by the Germans, that he escaped from the notorious Bergen Belsen prison camp, that he was beaten by a “suicide man,” and that he was shot at by a machine gun after being wounded by a land mine.


152 posted on 11/25/2005 9:23:17 AM PST by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: builder

"Big deal! I once hit a home run off a pitcher that was once almost drafted."

Oh. I thought you were talking about draft beer.


153 posted on 11/25/2005 9:29:48 AM PST by righttackle44 (The most dangerous weapon in the world is a Marine with his rifle and the American people behind him)
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To: Sam Hill
Sam, I am shocked that you would impugn the reputation of this fine and intensely athletic Democrat Governor. I have no doubt at all that he could throw a butterball with the best of'em. Which is probably why Slick Willy put him on the Monica Case. Is arm is, and was, also plenty good enough to throw a ballot box full of Republican votes a long way down the arroyo.

It's certainly not his fault that he looks like Lou Costello with a deep tan, or that he's built like Senator Barbara Mikulski, except not as ripped.

Cut this fine border-guarding American some slack. He's certainly popular as hell with the NM voters, alive and dead; present or absent, who vote for him enthusiastically, and often.

154 posted on 11/25/2005 9:45:28 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (Valerie Plame was about as much of a Secret Agent as Aunt Jemima.)
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To: savedbygrace

"I immediately looked to see if this was a Scrappleface article."

So did I.


155 posted on 11/25/2005 9:47:30 AM PST by toddlintown (Lennon takes six bullets to the chest, Yoko is standing right next to him and not one f'ing bullet?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Chinese Takout

Courtesy of Registered Media

 

156 posted on 11/25/2005 9:50:32 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: sine_nomine
Had Al Gore not invented the Internet, I would have never heard your inspiring story. The Lord does indeed work in mysterious ways.

I pray that someday, you will get a name.

157 posted on 11/25/2005 9:50:39 AM PST by Kenny Bunk (Valerie Plame was about as much of a Secret Agent as Aunt Jemima.)
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To: PhilDragoo

Authentic Brand Disk Drives

Courtesy of Registered Media

 

158 posted on 11/25/2005 9:51:16 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: Sub-Driver

Los Alamos Weapons Lab Drive-Thru

Courtesy of Registered Media

 

159 posted on 11/25/2005 9:51:44 AM PST by Incorrigible (If I lead, follow me; If I pause, push me; If I retreat, kill me.)
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To: toddlintown

The real frightening thing about this is the fact that some voters would be influenced by thinking he was drafted by a MLB team.

Heck, some voters would be influenced by knowing whether he wears boxers or briefs (and I apologize for the mental images.)


160 posted on 11/25/2005 10:13:06 AM PST by savedbygrace
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