Posted on 01/07/2016 3:25:13 PM PST by CedarDave
SANTA FE - Former New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson was cited for following too closely and failing to report an accident after a hit-and-run fender bender in downtown Santa Fe on Wednesday morning.
According to the police report, the accident occurred about 8:15 a.m. during wet, snowy conditions. Richardson rear-ended a vehicle driven by a Santa Fe woman while both were traveling east on Marcy Street at the intersection with Paseo de Peralta.
The woman told the police a yellow Jeep hit her car from behind while she was stopped at a stop sign. The Jeep then hit her a second time, hard enough to push her into the intersection, before she pulled over and then saw the Jeep drive away, the police report says. A witness told the Journal her rear bumper was dented and "hanging down a couple of inches."
Caitlin Kelleher, a spokeswoman for Richardson, released a statement a few hours after the incident saying the former governor made "an honest mistake" when he failed to stop.
Richardson told police he wasn't sure he had struck anyone. "Did I hit somebody?" he asked, according to the police report. "It popped a little bit, but I think it was like a little hit. … It was a stop light and I think I barely popped it."
About an hour after the accident, Richardson was at the Roundhouse for a live interview about North Korea on MSNBC that aired around 9:30 a.m. Richardson, who also served in the U.S. House and was U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and secretary of the federal Department of Energy under President Bill Clinton, was New Mexico governor from 2003 through 2010.
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The only governor we had worse than Richardson was Toney Anaya.
Hit and Run?
why does that sound apropos for Bill Richardson ?
Didn’t know of conservatism in the Farmington area: it must be outvoted by the other northern counties. The whole state is very tough to win, but Gerald R. Ford won it in 1976.
Richardson may have been really bad, but people in NM don’t know that.
Didn’t know of conservatism in the Farmington area: it must be outvoted by the other northern counties. The whole state is very tough to win, but Gerald R. Ford won it in 1976.
Ronald Reagan won the state twice. There Republicans have also won the state but not for a while.
He thought he was drafted by the Boston Red Sox, no?
What a pile of "BS."
“... I think it was like a little hit.”
Expert ping.
So, he hit this woman's car not once, but twice, and pushed her into the intersection.
But hey, it was an honest mistake.
Honest is a word that should never be uttered by a Democrat.
Correct. Our ex-gov was part of the Clinton machine.
Most famous for oilfield bribery (you didn’t get a permit unless you greased his hand via his family) and selling military secrets to China for his personal profit.
What was his BAC?
Every time I’ve met him he reeked of whiskey.
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