PREVIOUS ISSUES : NEWS : Outtakes Last Updated: March 15, 2008 - 3:24 PM   There's Something About Bill: Hearing Voices By Nathan Dinsdale Published: September 5, 2007   Email this article   Printer friendly page   Loose talk from the trail. “It’s not going to work. If you’re going to build a 10-foot wall, know what’s going to come next? An 11-foot ladder.” —Gov. Bill Richardson, on Sept. 2, talking to voters in Dover, NH, about building a border security wall, as quoted by Fosters.com. “I brought the Red Sox some good luck.” —Richardson, as quoted in the Sept. 3 edition of The Citizen of Laconia (New Hampshire) newspaper, joking about his appearance at a Sept. 1 Boston Red Sox game in which rookie pitcher Clay Buchholz threw the first Red Sox no-hitter in five years. “You want to arrest somebody? Arrest me.” —Richardson, during a Sept. 2 speech at a backyard campaign event in Plymouth, NH, condemning federal authorities for arresting a terminally ill cancer patient in New Mexico for possessing medical marijuana (as quoted by The Citizen). “Iowa, for good reason, for constitutional reasons, for reasons related to the Lord, should be the first caucus and primary. And I want you to know who was the first candidate to sign a pledge not to campaign anywhere if they got ahead of Iowa. It was Bill Richardson.” —Richardson, as quoted in a Sept. 4 story in the Des Moines Register, talking to a crowd at the Northwest Iowa Labor Council picnic. “This process is completely out of control and only an agreement by the candidates can restore sanity…Anarchy in the nominating process does nothing to further the cause of changing America.”—Richardson, in an Aug. 31 statement announcing he would be the first Democratic presidential candidate to sign a “Four-State Pledge” to not campaign in any state that schedules its primary or caucus ahead of Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina. “I don’t see how anybody who believes he or she should be president of the United States of America could get tricked into signing a pact to ignore tens of millions of diverse Americans by a selfish, four-state alliance of party insiders.” —Florida Democratic Party Chairwoman Karen Thurman, in a Sept. 1 story in The Miami Herald, responding to the “Four-State Pledge” signed by Richardson. SFR is covering the Richardson campaign every week in “There’s Something about Bill.” To read more SFR coverage of the governor’s presidential campaign, go to www.sfrblogsbill.blogspot.com. © Copyright 2000-2008 by the Santa Fe Reporter Save This Page to del.icio.us Top of Page