From a reader, re: Richardson:

You are right in concluding that Richardson does not have a natural constituency, but he is spending the devil out of New Mexican’s taxes trying to create one. His tourism department runs ads touting our state, with his mug in them naturally, he bought a new jet so he can make those meetings in North Korea, and we just learned he will be representing NM in the Tournament of Roses parade, on a float that we spent $140,000 on so that we can “raise the level of awareness of NM in southern California.” Oh yeah, he’s running for president and I say good riddance, get him out of my state government.