Leon “Skip” Fay

Minutes after a houseboat piloted by Gov. Bill Richardson’s chief of staff Brian Condit had crashed into another boat Sept. 5, a woman called 911 to report: “The people who are driving it are drunk.”
So writes Tom Cole in the Albuquerque Journal today, pushing the story about the boat crash at Elephant Butte park marina [...]

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.