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The governor’s office did not respond to two e-mail messages and a phone call sent Monday and Tuesday, asking why Governor Richardson’s chief of staff, Brian Condit, had not returned to the scene of a houseboat accident he caused over Labor Day weekend. The Governor’s office has also declined to make Condit available for an interview.

“Mr. Richardson has emerged battered but unbeaten after a yearlong federal investigation,” the Times reports today, and “…He has returned to form, political scientists here say. His poll numbers are creeping up, and a national appointment is again a possibility. Everyone in Santa Fe, the capital, is speculating about what he will do next. He has [...]

It took the New Mexico Republican Party most of Thursday before it rose to the challenge of interpreting last weekend’s boat accident at Elephant Butte State Park, but what it lacked in urgency–Wonkette in Washington blogged on the story Thursday morning–the party more than made up in over-wrought rhetoric that showed an unsteady grasp of [...]

At least one state lawmaker believes the New Mexico State Legislature should strengthen a law that currently gives an operator of a boat two days to provide information to officers investigating an accident involving the craft. The law allowed Gov. Bill Richardson’s chief of staff, Brian Condit, to wait two days before he called an officer to discuss a boat accident at Elephant Butte State Park over the Labor Day weekend.