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"I think what we're looking at is a quiet revolution," said Robert Rubin, an attorney with the San Francisco-based Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, which brought the Madera case. "I think this will sort of usher in the transfer of power from the Anglo community to the Latino community . . . with fair and equitable voting procedures."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-madera4...
I feel confident that after the last eight years of the practice of placing in positions of trust and power those who have ulterior motives in the destruction of the agency in which they administer will no longer occur. Sorry Exxon, I guess you won't be editing climate change reports to your own selfish ends anymore.
Faith in the honesty of those given positions of trust because they choose to act ethically and responsibly, this is change I can believe in.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/19/us/politics/1...
DENVER — A federal grand jury in New Mexico is investigating accusations that Gov. Bill Richardson’s administration gave lucrative contracts to a California financier because he contributed heavily to the governor’s political action committees, a person familiar with the grand jury proceedings said Thursday.
President-elect Barack Obama has appointed Mr. Richardson to be secretary of commerce, and questions about the contracts may be raised in his Senate confirmation hearings in February.
The investigation in New Mexico also comes as Mr. Obama deals with the uproar over corruption accusations against Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois, Mr. Obama’s home state. (More details at the NYT, above)
dissolve Her Majesty's Government, open elections and TWO WEEKS later it's
over. Two weeks. What we have is Ringling Bros Barnum and Bailey and obscene
profits for the MSM.
traffic.
A federal grand jury is investigating how a company that advised Jefferson County, Alabama, on bond deals that threaten to cause the biggest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history, did similar work in New Mexico after making contributions to Richardson’s political action committees.
The grand jury in Albuquerque is looking into Beverly Hills, California-based CDR Financial Products Inc., which received almost $1.5 million in fees from the New Mexico Finance Authority in 2004 after donating $100,000 to Richardson’s efforts to register Hispanic and American Indian voters and pay for expenses at the Democratic National Convention in 2004, according to people familiar with the matter.
Gov females who don't like uninvited groping are probably happy.
And innocent people who Richardson might accuse to divert attention from his own failures, anonymously of course, are probably relieved as well.
Richardson's appointment does not say much for O's vetting team.
People, this is a Good Thing.
Kindly, enlighten me.
I think this M.O. has all the markings of the republican play book and it wouldn't surprise me in the least to find out eventually, that it is the typical "dirty-tricks" of the republicans at hand again.
If you want to learn more about Richardson, I suggest the excellent 5-part series from the respected Albuquerque Journal, "High Ambition."
Scroll down to find it, and follow the prompt to gain free access to the articles:
http://www.abqjournal.com/richardson/
You could also Google "Richardson and Wen Ho Lee."
Politico isn't the best source, but a quick search of Richardson and his penchant for uninvited groping can be found here:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0307/3054....
Politico definitely isn't the best source, to base your accusations of his impropriety. I copy the quote from Politico:
"The lieutenant governor of New Mexico, Diane Denish was quoted in the Albuquerque Journal saying she avoids standing or sitting near Richardson because of his physical manner, which she said was not improper but was "annoying." The governor, she said, "pinches my neck. He touches my hip, my thigh, sort of the side of my leg."
She said that what he did was not improper , yet she was annoyed with his behavior. You blow this out of proportion by suggesting that his demeanor involves sexual harassment. ( or at least plant that suspicion that he appears to be unscrupulous. I think that was disingenuous on your part. )
Though I would admit I am not "informed" on this subject because in all honesty, is a non-event. That you consider yourself "informed' because you read this on Politico, and use it as your source, doesn't really make you an authority either. Rather, it is more like passing on gossip and making something more sinister that this Lt. Governor said. This comment was said by a person who can't really put her finger on it but, just doesn't want to sit next to him for more reasons than she is letting on.( perhaps, she just doesn't like him ) She said he wasn't being inappropriate but she still didn't like it.
What to make of that. It is a non-event in my book and to accuse him of not being able to keep his hands off of her, is suspect. I wouldn't have used that as a reason to dismiss possible republican "pot-stirring" to make much about nothing. We shall see.
I do apologize for assuming you repeat everything you read and hear from Fox News and The Enquirer. That was not nice, but accusing him of something that is not inappropriate seems to be judging him for something he hasn't done. That isn't nice as well.
You also, accused him of corruption, if you could kindly, back that up with some evidence, I would read that as well. If it is an opinion, you should say so.
I wrote that I linked the Politico article after a quick search. My intent was to give you information. If you were better informed, you would know that Diane Denish is not the only female to complain of Richardson's unwelcome groping, which have been documented in numerous legit news articles. I didn't make the accusations, they did. Nor did I blow anything "out of proportion."
Try reading the AJ series I linked to and try Googling on your own.
Or go argue with yourself. Or get over yourself.
Whatever.
At least in this case, where there is even the stink of impropriety or the sense that there may have been some sort of unethical governing behavior, Richardson is willing to accept responsibility and move on rather than drag the country and the new administration through this muck.
In his autobiography, "Dreams From My Fathers", Barack Obama writes of taking a job at some point after graduating from Columbia University in 1983. He describes his employer as "a consulting house to multinational corporations" in New York City, and his functions as a "research assistant" and "financial writer".
The odd part of Obama's story is that he doesn't mention the name of his employer. However, a New York Times story of 2007 identifies the company as Business International Corporation.[10] Equally odd is that the Times did not remind its readers that the newspaper itself had disclosed in 1977 that Business International had provided cover for four CIA employees in various countries between 1955 and 1960.[11]
The British journal, Lobster Magazine -- which, despite its incongruous name, is a venerable international publication on intelligence matters -- has reported that Business International was active in the 1980s promoting the candidacy of Washington-favored candidates in Australia and Fiji.[12] In 1987, the CIA overthrew the Fiji government after but one month in office because of its policy of maintaining the island as a nuclear-free zone, meaning that American nuclear-powered or nuclear-weapons-carrying ships could not make port calls.[13] After the Fiji coup, the candidate supported by Business International, who was much more amenable to Washington's nuclear desires, was reinstated to power -- R.S.K. Mara was Prime Minister or President of Fiji from 1970 to 2000, except for the one-month break in 1987.
In his book, not only doesn't Obama mention his employer's name; he fails to say when he worked there, or why he left the job. There may well be no significance to these omissions, but inasmuch as Business International has a long association with the world of intelligence, covert actions, and attempts to penetrate the radical left -- including Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)[14] -- it's valid to wonder if the inscrutable Mr. Obama is concealing something about his own association with this world.
Anti-Empire Report, January 2, 2009
From: BBlum6@aol.com
Sent: 03 January 2009 04:12:02