“I’m shocked to learn that a campaign flack would not tell me the truth,” The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Steve Terrell writes this morning. Can you taste the sarcasm dripping off that statement?

Terrell was writing about the revelation in a new book from Obama strategist David Plouffe that there was, after all, a deal between then-candidate Barack Obama and Gov. Bill Richardson during the 2008 Iowa Caucus—the two agreed that, in precincts where they couldn’t hope to win, they’d direct supporters to each other. 

The Richardson and Obama campaigns both denied at the time that such a deal existed. This was long before Richardson endorsed Obama, obviously, since he still had dreams of becoming president himself. Richardson spokesman Pahl Shipley denied the deal’s existence to Terrell, who was in Iowa following the governor.

It was NMI’s sister site, the Iowa Independent, that first reported on the Obama/Richardson deal in Iowa.

Anyway, it’s time to get past campaign flacks not telling the truth and move onward in the blogosphere. Corey Pein of SF Reeper asks in a post, “Were names named in the undredacted PRC ethics survey?” If you care about open records, check it out.

Also, want an opinion on whether campaign contributions grease the wheels for highway construction in New Mexico? Check out today’s guest blog on Democracy for New Mexico.

NMI’s Danielle Bauer contributed to this report.