"suck ... suck ... suck ..."
Posted on 12/14/2005 2:22:43 PM PST by CedarDave
SANTA FE — The state Republican Party is skewering Gov. Bill Richardson in a new radio ad parodying "'Twas the Night Before Christmas.''
The ad lampoons the Democratic governor for his presidential ambitions, his recent admission that he was not drafted by a professional baseball team as he has claimed for decades and issues that have been the subject of previous GOP criticism, including the state's purchase of a $5.4 million jet.
The ad started airing Tuesday on an Albuquerque radio station and will run through Thursday, according to Marta Kramer, GOP executive director. The opening line of the ad goes: "'Twas the month before Christmas and on a Santa Fe hill, lived an ego so big ... they called him King Bill.''
Richardson is running for re-election next year and is viewed nationally as a potential contender for the Democratic nomination in 2008.
Kramer said the ad reflects the aggressive role that the GOP plans to take during Richardson's upcoming campaign. "We wanted to point out that Gov. Richardson has a major character flaw. He continues to portray himself as something that he's not — whether it's about baseball or whether he's a tax cutter,'' said Kramer.
Richardson's record on taxes is a long-standing sore spot with Republicans. The governor describes himself as a centrist Democrat who has championed tax cuts, including $400 million in personal income tax reductions being phased in through 2008.
However, Republicans point to other taxes and fees that have gone up since Richardson took office and they say there's been a net increase in revenue to the state.
Richardson's re-election campaign aired TV and radio ads last month. And the Republicans broadcast radio ads earlier this year that criticized Richardson's executive lifestyle as a high roller.
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'Twas the month before Christmas, and on a Santa Fe hill. Lived an ego so big... they called him King Bill.
King Bill told everyone that he'd done it all... diplomat, statesman, even professional baseball.
His high-roller lifestyle demanded the finest money could get. A helicopter, Cadillacs and a 5 million dollar jet.
His personal chefs kept him fed, as well as could be. His make-up artist hid secrets he didn't want you to see.
His bodyguards served at his beck and call. No tickets for speeding... King Bill's above the law.
With all this big spending, the budget grew thin. So King Bill taxed the sick and elderly... to keep the money rolling in.
He hired dozens of reporters to sing his praise. But nary a word of the seven hundred forty million in taxes he raised
They keep writing stories that he cut taxes for all. But that's just a tall tale like his professional baseball.
So hold on to your wallet with all of your might King Bill wants a new house... that's bigger and white.
But that's another story that will have to wait til the Democrats dump him in 2008.
"suck ... suck ... suck ..."
It's good to be the King.
And the peasants are revolting!
Two other recent stories on his spending binge here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1540473/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1539522/posts
I'm not sure that we want Richardson too bloodied next year. He should lose, for sure, but not so badly that he couldn't run for president in '08.
Why? Well, we need somebody to do battle in the primaries against Hillary starting in 2007. I could be wrong but, a good set of primary campaigns could also hurt Hillary. I think Richardson knows first hand a lot of the shennanigans from the Clinton Administration, althought I'm not sure that he would use them against Hillary.
Nevertheless, Hillary can't be allowed to go through the primaries unscathed.
Well, that may be, but the king isn't so handsome himself!
I was thinking the New Mexico Republicans should print up baseball style cards with Richardson on the front, and list all of his tax hikes on the back. Do a series of them and make a "collector's set" of them to sell to raise money and awareness of his lousy record there. I'd buy a set and I live in Georgia! I love tongue-in-cheek things and I'll bet a lot of folks in New Mexico would want them.
King Bill's chances of losing his re-election next year for governor are slim and none. He won by a large margin in 2002 and probably will have a larger margin next year. His PR campaign overwhelms whatever critical items appear in the press, though some reporters are giving him more critical looks then in the past.
Sunday, December 4, 2005Richardson's Trip to North Korea Underscores the Long and Strange Relationship It Has N.M.
By Leslie Linthicum Of the Journal
North Korea has been called the "Hermit Kingdom," a place so cut off from the rest of the world that only a handful of foreigners has ever been allowed to travel there. Its borders are closed and patrolled by armed soldiers. Visas to visit are rare and doled out erratically. And once inside the country, foreigners are kept in the capital city of Pyongyang and in the constant company of government handlers.
Locked away from the rest of the world, North Korea is a place to wonder about and, as it flexes its nuclear muscles, to worry about. Curiously, though, some of the most frequent travelers behind the Kimchi Curtain are from New Mexico or have ties here.
Gov. Bill Richardson has been to North Korea five times. Former Gov. Dave Cargo counts two trips. Siegfried Hecker, the former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory, also has been there twice. And Tony Namkung, a senior adviser to Richardson and the state Economic Development Department's Asia consultant, has traveled to North Korea more than two dozen times.
"It's amazing, really," said Cargo.
Like the Kevin Bacon game, there are a few degrees of separation between New Mexico's frequent fliers to North Korea— but mostly just coincidences. And New Mexicans have played very different roles on their ventures into the secretive nation.
Good one.
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