Union Leader - New Mexico governor tests waters for '08 run - Monday, Dec. 18, 2006
MANCHESTER – Gov. Bill Richardson is leaving a private luncheon at the Puritan Backroom restaurant and getting ready to chat it up with Democratic voters at a house party in Hooksett. But first, he has to make a quick phone call. "Tell him I want to see, obviously, President Bashir," the New Mexico Democrat tells his scheduler via cell phone as the state trooper at the wheel speeds their SUV onto the interstate. Richardson is referring to Omar al-Bashir, the president of war-torn Sudan, and a "humanitarian mission" the governor is trying to orchestrate."Just put, 'Anybody making decisions on U.N. force,'" Richardson tells the woman on the line. "But, you know, certainly the president."
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