{"id":2387,"date":"2008-02-07T18:48:01","date_gmt":"2008-02-08T00:48:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/bill-marty-are-shocked-shocked-i-say\/"},"modified":"2008-02-07T18:57:43","modified_gmt":"2008-02-08T00:57:43","slug":"bill-marty-are-shocked-shocked-i-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/loco\/bill-marty-are-shocked-shocked-i-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill & Marty are Shocked — Shocked, I say!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Richard is the titular head of New Mexico’s Democratic Party. Until 2 weeks ago, he expected to benefit from the early caucus in New Mexico which he pushed for four years ago. Now, a day late, he appears to say there will be six more weeks of winter. No, wait, to say someone else is responsible for the problem — not him. That’s leadership. By comparison, Colón — who did screw up by failing to realize how fired up and ready to go we all are — has been a grown-up and shouldered the blame. No doubt, Richardson will set fire to a bag of poop on Colón’s doorstep.<\/p>\n

I was lucky. We went early and made it through a system that looked fraught with weaknesses. No, I didn’t volunteer to fix them nor am I now. I’m also not throwing turds at those who did volunteer and did the best they could under the circumstances. <\/p>\n

Republicans — who let the state pick up the tab for their meaningless June primary, god bless them — felt as cheated as Democrats did prior to 2004. Why not make an official New Mexico State Primary for both parties set for a date agreed to by both parties? A primary managed by paid professionals, including someone paid to prepare for rising storms. <\/p>\n

Governor, do you want to take the lead on this or just blame others? mjh<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Heath Haussamen on New Mexico Politics: Party seeks accurate tally; Madrid doesn’t trust vote<\/a><\/p>\n

Criticism has been harsh and widespread, and has come from people and organizations including The Albuquerque Tribune<\/a>, Gov. Bill Richardson<\/a> and Albuquerque Mayor Martin Ch\u00e1vez<\/a>. Col\u00f3n has taken responsibility.<\/p>\n

<\/o><\/p>\n

But Madrid<\/st1> said those who pushed for the creation of the early caucus in <\/st1>New Mexico<\/st1>,
\nwhich was first implemented in 2004, share the blame. She was one of
\nthe leading opponents of the caucus at the time, arguing that, as the
\nstate\u2019s attorney general, she would have no jurisdiction to investigate
\nproblems because state election law doesn\u2019t apply to a party-run
\ncaucus. In addition, a party-run caucus puts a critical vote in the
\nhands of volunteers instead of paid, trained election workers.<\/p>\n

<\/o><\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t have all the checks and balances and the years of experience of a proper election,\u201d <\/st1>Madrid<\/st1> said. <\/p>\n

<\/o><\/p>\n

<\/st1>Richardson<\/st1>
\non Wednesday pointed the finger at the party officials and Democrats
\nwho didn\u2019t help fund and volunteer with Tuesday\u2019s caucus. He secured
\nthe funding for the caucus in 2004, but said he was too busy running
\nfor president and focusing on the Legislature to do it this time.<\/p>\n

<\/o><\/p>\n

<\/st1>Madrid<\/st1> said the governor and others who pushed for the caucus share some of the blame for Tuesday\u2019s problems.<\/p>\n

<\/o><\/p>\n

\u201cIt
\nseems to me it\u2019s the responsibility of the governor and the other
\nofficials who got this through to properly fund it and make sure it\u2019s
\nwell-run,\u201d she said. \u201cI\u2019m very concerned that the election was not
\nconducted properly and fairly.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Bill Richard is the titular head of New Mexico’s Democratic Party. Until 2 weeks ago, he expected to benefit from the early caucus in New Mexico which he pushed for four years ago. Now, a day late, he appears to say there will be six more weeks of winter. No, wait, to say someone else … Continue reading Bill & Marty are Shocked — Shocked, I say!<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election","category-loco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}