transition

The Associated Press reported something pretty remarkable from Alamogordo — some members of Diane Denish’s transition team are still meeting despite that there looks to be no transition going on. After all, Gov. Bill Richardson is no longer headed to Washington, D.C. as Barack Obama’s secretary of commerce.
Mayor Steve Brockett and First National Bank President [...]

While it is widely expected that Bill Richardson will be named President-elect Barack Obama’s secretary of commerce on Wednesday, another man with New Mexico connections was announced to be on Obama’s White House staff: Louis Caldera.
He has been named  director of the White House Military Office.
Caldera is currently a tenured professor at the University of [...]

On Wednesday, according to various news outlets, Gov. Bill Richardson will be named as Barack Obama’s choice to lead the U.S. Department of Commerce.
From the Wall Street Journal:
President-elect Barack Obama plans to introduce New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson as his Commerce secretary nominee at a Chicago news conference Wednesday, Democratic officials said.

It sounds like Bernalillo County Commissioner Deanna Archuleta really is going to Washington to be part of Obama’s transition team—at least according to a leaked e-mail from one of her assistants. “Commish Puts Kibosh on Meals Pitch” was this morning’s headline on Dan McKay’s Reporter’s Notebook. (BTW, since when does the Journal let reporters show [...]

The Obama administration-elect has launched a one-stop Web site, www.change.gov, for information about its plans for the next 75 days and the four years that follow.