Friends and admirers of former Gov. Bill Richardson are mourning the hard-charging politician whose career spanned the globe, from mountain villages of northern New Mexico as a youthful congressman to the United Nations and a litany of countries on unofficial diplomatic missions that often helped free imprisoned Americans
Long-time friend Kathy Flynn pauses at the casket of former New Mexico Gov, Bill Richardson as he lies in state in the rotunda of the New Mexico Capitol building, Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023, in Santa Fe, N.M. SANTA FE, N.M. — — Friends and admirers of former Gov.
“He said to me, 'No, you don’t understand. I'm not leaving,'” Early said. He recalled that Richardson bargained with the captors firmly and in good humor for hours, warning that he “can eat more food than you've got in this camp.” Richardson enacted initiatives with a Democratic-led Legislature that put an end to the death penalty in the state, eliminated sales taxes on medicine and food in efforts to combat poverty and renewed rights to collective bargaining by government workers that had expired under his Republican predecessor.
The state's Hispanic heritage was a good fit as Richardson campaigned for Congress and won his second bid in 1982 for a newly created district spanning northern New Mexico.
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