Posted on 04/20/2017 9:28:56 PM PDT by Kartographer
Mick Rich, who served as president of Albuquerque-based Mick Rich Contractors for over 30 years, is ready to take his hard hat to Washington.
The Albuquerque-based Republican filed his statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission in February and will run against Democratic incumbent Sen. Martin Heinrich.
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Good Luck in Nuevo Meh-he-cho.
He’s not this Marc Rich huckster that we all remember so well:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Rich
“In a February 18, 2001 op-ed essay in The New York Times, Clinton (by then out of office) explained why he had pardoned Rich, noting that U.S. tax professors Bernard Wolfman of the Harvard Law School and Martin Ginsburg of Georgetown University Law Center had concluded that no crime had been committed, and that Rich’s companies’ tax-reporting position had been reasonable.[19] In the same essay, Clinton listed Lewis “Scooter” Libby as one of three “distinguished Republican lawyers” who supported a pardon for Rich. (Libby himself later received a presidential commutation for his involvement in the Plame affair.) During Congressional hearings after Rich’s pardon, Libby, who had represented Rich from 1985 until the spring of 2000, denied that Rich had violated the tax laws but criticized him for trading with Iran at a time when that country was holding U.S. hostages.[35]
On November 1, 2016, the FBI released documents related to the pardon, stating it was an FOIA release.[36]”
I’ve never heard of him. Being in the construction business in East California, he’ll run into problems with many republicans if it comes out that he has illegals working on his jobs. I’d be very surprised if he doesn’t.
Mick not Marc.
He needs name recognition...does he have that in Albuquerque with general public? If he is well known in Albuquerque, and liked he may have a shot. NM is funny, this state is not locked up for the dims but close. Not impossible for him, Heinrich is catching some flack for his support of open borders/illegals.
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