Friday Fish Wrap: April 23, 2010
Friday, April 23, 2010 at 20:48 Gawd, what a week. Turmoil at work and really lousy weather. I’m happy that it’s over. I can have a relaxing weekend, kickback and thank my lucky stars that I’m not on the 11 Worst Governors List.
Need I have worried that Nevada’s own Governor Jim ‘Creepy’ Gibbons was on there? Nah. I’m still waiting for Nevada to on a list that I can be proud of.
That should happen about the same time that hell freezes over - and Sarah Palin becomes a labor union leader and Democrat icon.
The list features the usual suspects - Gov. Haley Barbour, R-MS, Gov. Rick Sanford, R-SC, Gov. Rick Perry, R-TX. The list has a lot of those ‘R’ folks. Unfortunately, there are a couple surprises.
Actually, Gov. David Patterson, D-NY, isn’t much of a surprise. There’s been too much circulating through the media lately to ignore. But, the one that surprised me was Gov. Bill Richardson, D-NM.
I was an early Richardson supporter during the 2008 campaign, and actually met the Governor in a quiet moment out at the airport’s executive terminal quite by accident one afternoon as he was waiting to board his airplane for the next campaign stop.
We got a few minutes to chat, and the topic was campaign finance reform. He said what so many Americans need to hear - that without real campaign finance reform, the country will continue to be run by and for the special interests, and that nothing will ever be done right, and for the right reasons.
The sad thing is that Bill Richardson gets it. Unfortunately, he’s thoroughly part of a sick and broken system of payola for politics.
Sigh.
