BILL RICHARDSON
We already have the answer for one of the question’s posed by the Dakini’s office pool. It’s hard to know what to say other than welcome to Scamalot folks where pay-to-play is the everyday way! It certainly says a lot that this is the first answer so early and so BEFORE the swear in.
This just in from the New York Times.
Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico confirmed in a statement released Sunday afternoon that he has withdrawn his name as the commerce secretary nominee, citing a pending “investigation of a company that has done business with New Mexico state government …
On Dec. 19, The Times published an article stating that a federal grand jury in New Mexico was looking into accusations that Governor Richardson’s administration gave lucrative contracts to a California financier because he contributed heavily to the governor’s political action committees.
The article, citing a person familiar with the grand jury proceedings, stated that since August, federal investigators have been examining how CDR Financial Products Inc., of Beverly Hills, Calif., got two consulting contracts in 2004 worth about $1.4 million to advise the state on a large bond issue for building infrastructure, one of Mr. Richardson’s initiatives.
The investigation was first reported in The Albuquerque Journal.”
The Times article also references the Richardson press release as well as Obama’s deep regrets. Of course, this is not the Bill Richardson Obama knew.
The AP (as paraphrased in the NY Tiimes article) has also announced some of the details of the latest pay-to-play Obama buddy caught in an indictment.
According to The Associated Press, a federal grand jury is investigating how a California company that contributed to Mr. Richardson’s political activities won a lucrative New Mexico state contract:
A person familiar with the proceedings has told The Associated Press that the grand jury is looking into possible “pay-to-play” dealings between CDR Financial Products and someone in a position to push the contract through with the state of New Mexico.
The A.P. also reports that Obama’s transition office said Sunday that the president-elect had accepted Mr. Richardson’s withdrawal.
Bye Bye Judas!!! This is coincidently the second of Mr. Obama’s primary supporters/turncoats/opponents to have been caught up in scandal. Did Mr. Axelrove perhaps find out things that both Judas and John Boy didn’t want out in the open during the primary season? Inquiring minds want to know.
Filed under: Barack Obama, Chicago Tammany Hall, Presidential Election 2008, corruption | Tagged: Dakini's Office Pool
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy!
*points*
*laughs*
The ink isn’t even dry on the happy new year banners and already, another Obama friend caught in a scandal. will wonders never cease?
get the popcorn..!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I must be completely losing it, because I commented on a terrific RD post awhile ago, and now it’s gone.
They’re going after Hillary, too:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/04/washington/04clinton.html?ref=politics
The question is, when does “politics as usual” become criminal?
i guess this isn’t the payout Judas was expecting, heh
maybe they need a law that says donors of a certain size can’t put in rfp’s in a pol’s district/state/country
Anyone interesting in the latest fabricated media huff about Hillary and her, you know, breathing, see here.
Hate.
down here in Nawlins, the churches set up the organzations, the pols give them funds, and then the deacons turn out the votes and volunteers for the pol …
Cinie beat me to it.
And another one bites the dust. BWAHAHAHAHA
aww, poor Obie — “disappointed” again — get used to it, a–hole. XOXO
Dollar Bill and his family have that scam and the pay to play scam down to an artform … unfortunately, he got a bit brazen about it and now bye bye bye!
Regency — what better way to distract from Obie’s obvious incompetence and corruption then mucking up some CDS? Hell, it worked like a charm all during the election. Axlerod’s motto must be “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”
Another Clinton backstabber falls. Will they never learn?
gxm took the words right out of my mouth. Good riddance, Judas.
Now, what’s this about Hillary? Better go read.
Obama barely won this thing and stuff like this will kill his support among the vast number of his voters who don’t like or trust him but gave him a chance because of bush. Way to go bambi, media can’t help you.
buh-bye Bill!
Janicen: Never. Not until the Clintons are the last ones standing.
Angie: At what point will people begin to question the PE who picked these people and not just the people? Hello! He’s supposed to be composing a crack team here.
Angie, hill made them to it, that corrupter of men. First the war, now this! LOL
Okay, I read the NY times (ugh) article about Hillary. My opinion: meh, not so much! More of the same CDS from the Times. When are they going to go bankrupt from all their shitty journalism?
uhhhmmmmm-AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
I love the smell of karma in the morning.
Even if it is midafternooon.
au contraire, Seriously — Obama did NOT win this thing — he didn’t win the primary so he was never the nominee in the first place.
I spent the 4 years after 2000 not acknowledging W as president (I give him the re-election, grudgingly) & I have no problem not acknowledging Obama for the next four. If he wins re-election in 2012 (and that’s a big mother-effing “if”) I may reconsider.
bbommer: I’m losing it with you. I commented on Sunday: Double X and it’s gone.
Reg there goes the ok we admit he’s incompetant but he’ll pick good helpers, a la bush, meme
Reg — they will never question Obama ’cause if they did they would be r@cist. LOL
no wonder they buried Judas in commerce, just imagine if it was Treasury or State; they had to know this was a problem awhile back
Seriously: I know, seriously, right.
Adding insult to injury they keep trying to sell me coins with this ass’s face on them. No, keep them. You’ll need them to pay down our even greater national debt in 4 years, at the end of which the recession might be over.
maybe kerry will be the next quid pro quo appointment to commerce
Awww….. how sad is dat?
Boohoo.
NOT!
ROFLMAO.
dakinikat — ooh, I hope Kerry is then he can be taken down too — that seems to be the pattern here with everything Obama touching turning to shit!
Of course he woildn’t be in a position to win anything in 12 if not for illegitimate installation, much like his doppelgänger. Hmm, I find I can’t say anything about obi without referencing bush, wonder why LOL
Hasta la vista, baby bill!
Lookey Lookey what I found:
http://www.zazzle.com/dont_blame_me_i_voted_for_hillary_bumpersticker-128319737033785822
and not a moment too soon!
Lol reg I wAs getting you a coin and everything too. Sighs
I hope the Clintons helped to pinpoint the crimes of Judas, but surely they’re enjoying this! How’s B.O. going to continue calling on Blago to quit while praising Richardson? They are both accused of essentially the same “pay for play”.
I asked downstairs… is there anything to the Congel/Destiny, Inc. donation to WJC’s foundation or is this more media horse crap?
Burris is threatening to sue the Dems (DNC I guess) if they don’t swear him in.
On the CNN report, it sounds like Obama asked for Richardson’s withdrawal.
Sophie, see the link upthread.
Schadenfreude is my new favorite word.
*snort* Obie doesn’t think corruption exempts you from “public service”
This just tickles the cr@p out of me!
Traitors like Bill “The switch” Richardson always get what is coming to them. It could not have happened to a better “judas!”
Just as Lennon sang……”Instant Karma’s gonna get you!”
Sophie — and you trust CNN? LOL
At this point, if CNN says the sky is blue I would have to go take a look myself as I would be positive it must be red.
Does it count if they resign before they actually get confirmed?
Cuz I got Rahmbo in the pool, and I got hosed.
Regency, I read that. I just don’t know how far the CDS can go.
oh, myiq, don’t worry… I suspect Rahmbo will be going down soon too…
MyIq: I say it doesn’t count yet. Rahm is so going down in the next 4 years.
Sophie: It can go ALL the way. However, as long as Congel isn’t admitting any wrongdoing or pointing any fingers, nothing should come of it.
myiq — how come your avatar on the left is quasimodo & in the thread itself it is baby Cpt. Spaulding?
Regency, on January 4th, 2009 at 4:03 pm Said:
Burris is threatening to sue the Dems (DNC I guess) if they don’t swear him in.
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The suit will probably name the Senate Sgt. at Arms. The Senators themselves are immune for suit.
Split personality
CNN: oo-ah-icky-poo!!
I caught the Fahrid Zakaria (?) show on there and who does he have as a talking head? Donna B
What does she know about international events, or even national events sans political crap? Nothing!
Pathetic!!
Sophie — Regency is right — CDS has not hit bottom yet, unfortunately.
I wish she would just say eff it & decide to stay in the Senate — but she is a smarter pol then I could ever hope to be. Maybe fuzzy’s dream will come true: Obie resigns ala Nixon, Biden becomes President & installs Hillary as his VP. Biden then resigns ala health or another scandal & Hill is President. She wins re-election in 2012 & 2016.
Angie: Your mouth to god’s ears.
SHV: Thanks for letting me know that. I never did before. Learn something new everyday.
I think the NYTimes needs to quit trying to demonize donations to charity.
Oh well…off to go get some Popeyes Fried Chicken.
Only thing is the closest one is not in the **best** of areas so better to go before it get dark!
Regency, on January 4th, 2009 at 4:17 pm Said:
SHV: Thanks for letting me know that. I never did before. Learn something new everyday.
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For what it is worth, that was another SCOTUS decision in POWELL v. MCCORMICK…Spkr. McCormick was protected by the Speech and Debate clause (Art.I sec.6) but congressional employees could be named.
Popeye’s chicken is worth the risk.
Help..in mod again!!!
and that should be “Speech or debate”
myiq2xu, on January 4th, 2009 at 4:27 pm Said:
Popeye’s chicken is worth the risk.
Oh yeah! Gonna get some popcorn shrimp too if they have them.
Sophie: Like Hillary should know the 200,000+ contributors to the Clinton Foundation. The NYT is trying another Hit job on the Clintons. AND will someone remind the MSM that these donations to the Foundation is to benefit the poor, the sick, etc all over the world. These donations are not to a political campaign of the Clintons for heaven sake!
Sofia: Who are these…”poor” people? There’s no such thing because everyone on Earth now has HOPE.
Disregarding for the moment what he did to HRC, I’m worried about the Richardson bow out.
First of all we don’t really know if he did anything wrong.
Second, this smacks of the VRWC tactic to create drama through endless investigations.
Third, as a past Clinton admin person he is a prime target for the VRWC hangers on
Fourth, if this is a RWRbat tactic, it means they are still too strong.
They’re not going to stop trying to use investigations to discredit people — at least because the media is so vulnerable to being snookered by the least hint of “scandal.”
The ironic thing is that, by claiming he is above scandal and somehow better than other politicians, Obama invites this kind of thing.
This smacks of “vetting: ur doing it rong.”
That or Obie always knew about and lied, saying it wouldn’t matter. Who knows?
As for the VRWC, we’re pretty easy targets, I think. When you piss on the other side, they piss on you. Have they forgotten that the Repubs are still in charge for 16 more days?
Regency: Don’t start me with this HOPE & CHANGE bull….No-one in the MSM can be bothered to write an article about the good work that the Clinton Foundation is doing around the world with all the “conflict of interest” money it receives. Instead there is no shortage of news on alleged conflict of interest & alleged pay to play schemes.
Hey, I’m a Clinton Foundation donor, does this mean I’ll be in the New York TImes?
Plural, agreed. At least not till someone develops a tactic against this. That’s why this looks like a vulnerabilty.
The fact hat the NYT put this out the same date as the article on Clinton suggests this kind of thing might be at work.
They and Wapo were involved as mouthpieces the last time, for Mellon Sciefe, and the rest.
Something is going on and they will go for HRC first.
Does the NYT have a clue that bringing down the Hillster at this point means bringing down Obiewan? I think the Obama run up to the WH is pretty amazing. We have the Chi-town Sen. mess, the NY senate mess, the Biden seat DL mess and now the Richardson mess. They want to add a Hillary mess? This is not a RRwing circus, this is just Dem. politics with the Chi-town tinge. But Rove must be totally loving it. By Jan. 20 those Repubs who sat at home or voted O are going to be going to Rotary all over the US and begging for forgiveness.
Cynical but-what if CK does not get HRC’s Senate seat-then HRC does not get to be SOS….
Does this mean Judas Richardson has to return his 30 pieces of silver too??
LOL, Nell! Schadenfreude is my new favorite pastime. And it’s looking like ObamaNation will be providing plenty of it.
Hillary is not resigning as Senator until she’s confirmed. Nothing else makes sense.
In other words, if she doesn’t get confirmed, she keeps her job.
Jangles: What is the “Biden seat DL mess”? Missed that one. What does “DL” stand for?
This should effectively end Judas Richardson’s political career. Even if he in exonerated, the stigma will follow him for the rest of his life. His only hope might be some lower elective position in New Mexico. It could not happen to a more deserving person.
[...] to dakincat at the Confluence Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico confirmed in a statement released Sunday afternoon that he has [...]
karma is a bitch! Judas, please step next to John Edwards – I am starting to believe in the ol’ Clintons mirror charm again (whatever you do to them, turns back on you you – the list from the 90s is very, very long)
I shall add this good news in my running schadenfreude list
http://edgeoforever.wordpress.com/2008/07/01/schadenfreude/
Thanks, Riverdaughter for being on the case! I am going to put up something too but here’s the teaser.
Obama knew about this investigation but picked him anyway
When Blago’s scandal came out, Obama joined the chorus saying – get rid of him
He also joined the chorus saying – don’t seat Burris
Then the realized “ruh roh” — we forgot about Richardson. How can we say that Blago is tainted when Richardson is going through the same thing. Ooops — bye Richardson….
Why is it when Richardson is involved in pay to play – but NOT accused of anything yet and he resigns it is a scandal. But Hillary, no matter where the money went, whether to her or to Bill’s foundation, is involved in the SAME pay to play, the media and Obama are attacking her? victim politics again, same as always for you Hillary worshippers – will you ever excuse someone who did NOT idolize her and voted for someone else? Think not.
Read that Kaine is taking over as DNC Chair.
DL—shorthand for Delaware. Biden’s senate seat was given to a person who will not run for the elected seat so that Biden can keep that option open for his son to run for it when the son returns from Iraq.
ellen, you inexcusable dimwit, obviously, the particulars of each case are different, not the “SAME”, and not necessarily equivalent. You Obama worshippers are so sloppy in your thinking.
Ellen – Richardson did not resign from anything. He is still governor of NM and he was never Secretary of Commerce. A bigger question is why did Senate Dems smack down Blagojevich but not Richardson? I believe in the presumption of innocence so they both should be able to work.
Oh by the way, Obama was trapped into pushing Richardson out because he joined the silly Senators in taking a hard line against Blago and Burris:
http://dissentingjustice.blogspot.com/2009/01/will-bill-richardsons-case-lead-to.html
YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Bye-bye Judas! I love this ejection. His gloating mug was so offensive, especially after he lied about promising Bill he would not endorse BO.
love it.
But Hillary, no matter where the money went, whether to her or to Bill’s foundation, is involved in the SAME pay to play, the media and Obama are attacking her?
lol! You can tell the Obots have their panties in a bunch again because they are being humiliated on a daily basis. They always come running to say,
but but but Hillary blah blah blah!!!
Richardson resigned of his own free will–maybe because he knows where this is going huh? I know you are extremely averse to actual FACTS, but where is the evidence of pay-to-play re: HRC? If it’s a real case, let’s see the facts, instead of the usual Clinton-smear knee-jerk reaction. And you better be careful…do you REALLY want to get into pay-for-play accusations where Obama is concerned? Who did Blago and Obama share in common as their best financial buddy? Rezko…just a coincidence I’m sure.
Then the realized “ruh roh” — we forgot about Richardson. How can we say that Blago is tainted when Richardson is going through the same thing. Ooops — bye Richardson….
Going to have to jack that bus up pretty high to fit Richardson under there.
VOODOO? I saw an article suggesting that the Richardson problem was the effect of a curse by Clinton and/or her PUMA followers (as was the Edwards downfall, according to this jokey theory)