Bill Richardson Drops Secretary Bid

Associated Press ^ | Jan . 4, 2009 | NEDRA PICKLER

[libstripper]

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson on Sunday announced that he was withdrawing his nomination to be President-elect Barack Obama's commerce secretary amid a grand jury investigation into how some of his political donors won a lucrative state contract.

[libstripper]

CDR Financial Products, the company involved in the case, and its president contributed a total of at least $110,000 to three Richardson political committees in 2004, according to the article. Then, in 2004 to 2005, CDR received $1.48 million dollars in state contracts from NM.

Pardon me for being irreverent, but will someone here tell me how this differs from Michelle Obama being promoted from a $100 K/yr. job at UC Hospitals to a $300+ K job at th same employer just after the Magic Negro (hereafter "MN") was elected to the Senate and MN, in 2005, getting a $1,000,000 earmark for the UC Hospitals.

[Tail Gunner John]

And the sleaze just keeps oozing.

[DennisR]

Hm...Slick Billy must not have completed Obama’s 63-question application for the job.

Democrat = Dunce

[ItsForTheChildren]

Ruh roh.

[xcamel]

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[Ben Hecks]

Pardon me for being irreverent, but will someone here tell me how this differs from Michelle Obama being promoted from a $100 K/yr. job at UC Hospitals to a $300+ K job at th same employer just after the Magic Negro (hereafter "MN") was elected to the Senate and MN, in 2005, getting a $1,000,000 earmark for the UC Hospitals.

[mom-7]

And so it begins before the mighty one even takes office. I guess we have four years of this crap facing us. Do wish SCOTUS would do something about the place of his birth.

[SERKIT]

Illinois will (has) become the template for Barry’s White House. Expect more hubris in the coming months. It’s the only thing the Chicago thugs know. No surprises here....

[Kent C]

Re: David Ruben... CDR:

Interesting how he chose the name of his company....

Ties to Lehman:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601510&sid=ay2MR_l1FpAk&refer=markets_mag

Ties to AIG:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/04/bloomberg/bxscam.php

Political contributions:
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?st=&zip=90212&last=Rubin&first=David

[Pharmboy]

I was just over at Democratic Underground to read their thread on this topic for some Schadenfreude, and I was a bit surprised to see the Clintons referred to as "Clintoris" and "Clenis."

Funny.

[strongbow]

Let’s think through this shall we. Who did Bill Richardson stiff when he endorsed hussein? Who has operatives working full time to destroy anyone who opposes them? Who is the up and coming sec state who would loathe working with BR? This reeks of the klinton syndicate payback team. You can’t tell me this stuff wasn’t already known and was easily washable with the MSM support.

[2nd Bn, 11th Mar]

Hey, the Dems are all graduates of the Dan Rostenkowski School of Ethics.

Semper Fi,