When Bill Richardson (see can above) was New Mexico's Third District congressman, Rio Arriba County was the nation's highest concentration of heroin-overdose deaths. The late Sheriff Emilio Naranjo was alleged to be the power behind the county political machine. When La Raza candidate Moises Morales became active in attempts at reform, the sheriff's department's deputies "discovered" a bag of marijuana in his pickup truck, eliciting a countercharge of planting contraband.
A friend has said Bill Richardson's political star is inextricably tied to that of the Clinton Janus.
The missing ballots are with the missing Los Alamos National Laboratories nuclear weapon unlock codes--but I state unequivocably, they are not at the Governor's Mansion. Just because Richardson's opponent's communications director was beaten savagely with a tire iron, it does not follow that the governor is a thug.