Comments on: Richardson protests food tax, but one lawmaker questions his sincerity

By: GimmieAMilk

GimmieAMilk — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:27:51 +0000

Richardson continues to be an embarassment for New Mexico! Que Lastima!

By: GimmieAMilk

GimmieAMilk — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:27:51 +0000

Richardson continues to be an embarassment for New Mexico! Que Lastima!

By: qofdisks

qofdisks — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:12:38 +0000

Taxing organics and locally grown food? Idiots.

By: debagger

debagger — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 15:27:40 +0000

“I don’t want to (balance the budget) it on the backs of ordinary citizens. I don’t believe that food tax was necessary.”

So why did you take rolling back the 2003 tax breaks for the rich off the table from the start, Bill?

With Democrats like these….

By: babyfatt

babyfatt — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:03:30 +0000

Great reporting, Trip and Gwyneth. Just continues to demonstrate the utter duplicity of Richardson, always talking out of both sides of his mouth, utterly bereft of core values, only worried about how things will play “in the arena” (his words). The special session was ugly–taxing food rather than taxing the rich (the only ones who can afford it in this economy), and yet the legislature probably did the best it could considering what it had to work with. One can already see the ads the R's will run in the next election, which will take Dems to task for doing the best they could to balance the budget in a way that spread the pain around. That's just politics. The sad thing about Richardson is that in the greatest economic catastrophe of the modern era he could have chosen to lead (and let's get real, given his lame duck status what did he have to lose?), but instead he chose–and continues to choose–to play it as a public relations game. What a dolt, what an empty-suited caricature of a political leader. What a travesty.