On a Trivial Issue, a Profound Statement of Character

Richardson Backs Off Baseball Claim

Associated Press
Friday, November 25, 2005

ALBUQUERQUE, Nov. 24 -- New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is coming clean on his draft record -- the baseball draft, that is -- acknowledging that his claim to have been a pick of the Kansas City Athletics in 1966 is untrue.

For nearly four decades, Richardson, often mentioned as a possible Democratic presidential candidate, has maintained he was drafted by the team.

The claim was included in a brief biography released when Richardson was elected to Congress in 1982. A White House news release in 1997 mentioned it when he was about to be named U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. And several news organizations, including the Associated Press, have reported it as fact over the years.

But an investigation by the Albuquerque Journal found no record of Richardson being drafted by the A's, who have since moved to Oakland, Calif., or any other team.

He acknowledged the error in an article in Thursday's editions.

"After being notified of the situation and after researching the matter . . . I came to the conclusion that I was not drafted by the A's," he said.

Richardson spokesman Gilbert Gallegos declined to comment.

Bill, Bill, Bill...Most of us know when we lie. Uh, at least most Republicans do. The fact that you can't bespeaks volumes of your bona fides as a Liberal. You see Liberals lie so much and so often that the line between truth and fiction often becomes blurred for them. Bill told this lie so often (and lets be frank here, it is a small and irrelevent lie) that it became the truth to him, so much so that he had to do "research" to determine that it was not true. This inablility to tell the truth about so insignificant a thing, is not a good omen for his Presidential aspirations.

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