Bill and Publius' Excellent Adventure

A Publius Essay | 29 May 2007 | Publius

[Publius]

OK, so I'm not Mark Steyn or P.J. O'Rourke, but I can give you a belly laugh or two.

[Publius]

Ping.

[Jim Robinson]

Woo hoo!! Go Bill go!! LOL!!

[cmsgop]

OMG!!!!! You better have Pics :*)

[ShorelineMike]

LOL. Excellent essay! Although I was not there, that dovetails with my take on Governor Richardson — potentially more formidable on substance than either Senator Clinton or Senator Obama, but not quite there in the charisma department.

[sionnsar]

LOL, thanks!!

[airborne]

Thanks for a well written account.

And through it all, what struck me most is (sorry to say) his campaign manager is a high school kid. 8^)

[Publius]

I made it a point not to be photographed with “Washington State Democrats” just above my name, and I certainly didn’t want to be seen by FReepers. Without this essay to explain what I was doing there, my reputation on this site would have been destroyed. Show some mercy, man!

[Publius]

My associate doesn't have the money to pay for this kid to manage his run for city council. If the kid can raise the money, he'll get paid, which (I suppose) is a good inducement to work hard.

Gov. Richardson has so little money I sometimes suspect that back in Santa Fe he has another high school kid managing his campaign.

[HKMk23]

Sounds like my assessment of Richardson’s been pretty right on all along: the stockroom’s filled with a minefield mix of blessings and curses, but there’s nothing in the store windows that’s got the oomph to get customers through the revolving doors.

NEXT!

[airborne]

So my next question is - did the kid do a decent job?

[Publius]

The kid showed some good chops. He steered my friend to the right people while keeping one eye on Richardson and the crowd around him to see if there was a shot at getting my friend into the winner's circle. According to my friend, the kid worked the crowd at the party in Mercer Island to see if he could shake any money out of the attendees.

He has a gift for this stuff.

[greyfoxx39]

NM ping for a good laugh!

[noexcuses]

I enjoyed reading about your adventure! Thanks!!

[greyfoxx39]

LOL. Excellent essay! Although I was not there, that dovetails with my take on Governor Richardson — potentially more formidable on substance than either Senator Clinton or Senator Obama, but not quite there in the charisma department.

Oh, my! I just pinged some NM FReepers...I'm of the opinion they won't agree with your assessment...I surely don't. Especially on the "cheap Railrunner"...

[Publius]

Compared to commuter rail startups in other parts of the nation, especially on the West Coast, Railrunner was built for a song.

[DesertDreamer]

LOL!

Railrunner only LOOKS like it was built for a song because Richardson is only including the down payment in his speeches. Railrunner is far from complete and NM taxpayers will be paying for the black hole on rails for a very long time.

As far as being a likeable guy, sociopaths are like that — at first.

[LegendHasIt]

Is it not amazing how easily Richardson fools people who SHOULD be more discerning?

I’m not that great a judge of character, but I could see right through him the first time I met him. So why can’t everyone else?

[LegendHasIt]

Railrunner wasn’t even “Built”.

He ‘BOUGHT’ (That is, the next five generations of NM Taxpayers will be paying for) some existing but essentially unused freight train tracks. Then he bought a used engine & cars; gave them a paint job and put some duct tape on the slashed seat covers.

He does plan to build some more track, but it is going to take 10 years and ten times as much money as planned before it is ready to roll (if ever).

[rockrr]

Publius, I loved it, but I gotta make one change..."By making us poorer DEAD, no doubt".