http://www.newwest.net/topic/main/C72/L37/ New West Network: The Voice of the Rocky Mountains en info@newwest.net Copyright 2008 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:49:58 MDT Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:49:58 MDT http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/obama_looks_to_solidify_west/C72/L37/ http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/obama_looks_to_solidify_west/C72/L37/ Tue, 10 Jun 2008 09:31:00 MDT Will Amendment 48, the pro-life ballot measure that will be voted on in the November election, cost Barack Obama Colorado? That’s one possibility raised in recent days by local politicos eyeing the fall presidential race. , At the same time we are witnessing what the Grand Junction Sentinel calls “a fundamental realignment of the formerly reliably Republican Rocky Mountain West.” http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/new_mexico_gov_bill_richardson_joins_obama_in_portland/C72/L37/ http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/new_mexico_gov_bill_richardson_joins_obama_in_portland/C72/L37/ Fri, 21 Mar 2008 09:32:01 MDT New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson endorsed Senator Barack Obama at a campaign event in Portland Friday. “I believe he is the kind of once-in-a-lifetime leader that can bring our nation together and restore America’s moral leadership in the world,” Richardson said in a statement. Obama will be in Oregon until at least Saturday making additional stops in Salem, Eugene and Medford. Richardson is scheduled to appear with Obama only at Memorial Coliseum in Portland. As early as 6 a.m., hours before Obama was scheduled to appear at the Coliseum, hundreds already were lined up in the Rose Quarter. http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/a_new_magazine_the_new_west1/C72/L37/ http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/a_new_magazine_the_new_west1/C72/L37/ Fri, 01 Feb 2008 15:53:00 MDT The best way to check out The New West magazine is to subscribe. We want to know who’s interested in The New West, so we have made the magazine available free to qualified subscribers who answer a short questionnaire. Click here for the questionnaire for a free subscription. You can also subscribe for $9.95 a year by clicking here. In the Spring Issue and online here: Montana’s Cash Cowboy Real Ranch Living: Not Everyone is Selling Out Essay: The Family Farm, Version 2.0 Essay: Tracks Across A Landscape Have Your Ranch & Develop It, Too Design Showcase: The Big and Little of Western Building Stuff It: Can Wolf Hunting Help Conserve the Species? Traffic Perplexes New Western Communities Boise in Its Own Little Bubble Revenge of the Resource Economy Spotlight North Idaho: On the Agenda: Youth, Growth & Silver Spotlight North Idaho: Players of the Panhandle Spotlight North Idaho: Coeur d’Alene Tribe Rides the Idaho Boom http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/water_comment_a_sour_campaign_note_for_richardson/C72/L37/ http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/water_comment_a_sour_campaign_note_for_richardson/C72/L37/ Tue, 16 Oct 2007 10:07:00 MDT Water, water, everywhere. Now share it: New Mexico Governor and presidential candidate Bill Richardson gaffed again when he told Michigan and Wisconsin audiences that the states were awash in water that they could share with the dry west. Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm's response to sharing the wealth? "Hell no." Richardson then back pedaled furiously. His press secretary told the Detroit Free Press, "Richardson believes firmly in keeping water in its basin of origin and of the rights of states to oversee water distribution," even though he's still proposing a nationwide water summit. As the primary nears, Richardson's going on the offensive against Hilary Rodham Clinton. In an Associated Press report from Las Vegas, Richardson said Clinton is "acting like she's already won" the nomination, specifying that Clinton decided not to remove her name from the primary ballot in Michigan, despite a promise not to campaign in the state because it broke party rules in scheduling the contest before Feb. 5. http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/domenicis_retirement_leaves_another_western_seat_vacant/C72/L37/ http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/domenicis_retirement_leaves_another_western_seat_vacant/C72/L37/ Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:37:00 MDT Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) is expected to announce his retirement today in a press conference in Albuquerque. Recently, Domenici's health has been questionable. News accounts say he's suffering from a "progressive brain disease." The senior senator is the state's longest serving, and holds the senior Republican position on the Energy and Natural Resources and Appropriations committees. This year hasn't been so good to the senator: he, along with heir-apparent congresswoman Heather Wilson was said to have pressured former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias to bring indictments in a politically charged corruption investigation of local Democrats ahead of last year's election. http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/richardson_union_yes_even_if_its_the_wrong_acronym/C72/L37/ http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/richardson_union_yes_even_if_its_the_wrong_acronym/C72/L37/ Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:06:00 MDT Bill Richardson tried yet again to draw a distinction between himself and the other democratic presidential candidates yesterday. Appearing before the Laborers' International Union of North America convention, Richardson told the audience that unlike his competitors, he would leave no residual troops in Iraq after his six month pullout plan had been completed. As quoted in The Swap, "The Iraqis want us out of their country, and they will not make the hard choices necessary for political reconciliation until we make it clear that we are leaving for good," he said. Even though Richardson gaffed the name of the SEIU ending a speech recently (he thanked AFSME, one of the Service Employees International Union's chief rivals), he's still working hard for the union vote. Thehill.com notes that several of the democratic hopefuls say they will resurrect a controversial ergonomics rule that President Bush overturned in 2001. http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/laughs_and_points_for_richardson/C72/L37/ http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/laughs_and_points_for_richardson/C72/L37/ Mon, 11 Jun 2007 18:49:00 MDT The latest CNN poll, released late Monday night, showed Bill Richardson has gained significant points since the June 3 debate in New Hampshire. According to CNN, the poll involved telephone interviews with 309 New Hampshire adults who plan to vote in the Democratic primary January 22, 2008. The poll's margin of error was plus or minus 6 percentage points. While Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama also gained points, John Edwards has lost support. He's now at 12 percent, with Richardson close behind at 10 percent. CNN notes that Richardson may have gained support during the debate because voters perceived him as decisive. CNN also wrote that 57 percent of New Hampshire Democrats noted the war in Iraq as a key deciding point. If that's the case, then Richardson's his strong statement on Iraq Sunday night could have won over more voters. The El Paso Times, among other newspapers, picked up the Associated Press report of Richardson's statement: "I would leave no troops in Iraq whatsoever. The difference between me and the other candidates is, they would leave troops there indefinitely, and I would not," Richardson told the report on Late Edition on CNN. http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/richardson_meets_the_press_again/C72/L37/ http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/richardson_meets_the_press_again/C72/L37/ Mon, 28 May 2007 13:31:00 MDT New Mexico Bill Richardson is big as life, and we're not talking about his weight (which appears to be a fascination with the New Mexico, national press and blogger corps). We're talking about his stories. You know, those little yarns he tells over and over that somehow become perceived as truth? First there was the baseball tale: Last November he admitted that the claim that he was a pick of the Kansas City A's in 1966 was untrue. Now he's decided that he's no longer going to tell the story about Lance Corporal Aaron Austin, who was killed in action in 2004. When Richardson told the tale, he added that he met Austin's mother and had a conversation with her about her son's $11,000 death benefit, which spurred him to go to the legislature, where he lobbied for a much more generous one. But lately Richardson's decided to stop using Austin's name after Austin's mother noted she remembers no such conversation. http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/richardson_clambakes_in_new_hampshire/C72/L37/ http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/richardson_clambakes_in_new_hampshire/C72/L37/ Mon, 07 May 2007 11:31:00 MDT Bill Richardson seems to really love New Hampshire. He's been traipsing here and there visiting with locals, touting renewable energy power plants, and charming newspaper reporters and bloggers in the Live Free or Die state. Richardson visited a renewable energy plant in Portsmouth. He told seacoastonline.com that if elected, he'd want out of Iraq, and fast, and he'd work on getting all Americans health insurance. He stopped by a local house party down in Salem, Mass., where he apparently faced some tough questions from the crowd of about 50 people gathered in the home. The participants included teachers, doctors and the elderly, who peppered the presidential candidate with questions about health care policy, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the future of social security. Richardson also appeared at the Rockingham County Clambake, where the topic was science and technology. One of his goals for the Democrats is to become the party of science and technology. Not sure what that means, exactly, but it sounds suspiciously like his entire gubernatorial tenure in New Mexico (including that little 'ol stip-o-asphalt, the New Mexico Spaceport.) http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/richardsons_sowing_seeds_of_grassroots_campaign/C72/L37/ http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/richardsons_sowing_seeds_of_grassroots_campaign/C72/L37/ Mon, 30 Apr 2007 12:37:00 MDT New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson seems to be making good on his promise to run a very grassroots campaign. After the recent debate, Richardson was hanging out with bloggers in California. The California Majority Report writes about the western shift from red to, well, purple in its politics, and Richardson's explanation of that shift: Richardson said Western "leave me alone" libertarians feel out of place in today's Republican party. And rising support for alternative energy and the environment have given rise to new grassroots activity.. The blog also noted Richardson's unpolished speaking style and, on a positive note, his focus on ideals rather than talking points, left a favorable impression on the ten or so young people in the meeting. On a more mainstream note, Richardson still dreams of baseball, according to Fox News, reporting on an Associated Press interview which asked 14 presidential candidates from both parties to describe their alternate lives. Richardson hearkened back to his days as a right handed pitcher for Tufts University, where he was not recruited by the Kansas City A's in 1966. He did, however, play for the Cape Cod League's Cotuit (Mass.) Kettleers in the summer of 1967.