Who won the debate?
Writing by treason on Friday, 27 of April , 2007 at 10:27 pm
“It’s like going into the Senate. You know, the first time you get there, you’re all excited, ‘My God, how did I ever get here?’
Then, about six months later, you say, ‘How the hell did the rest of them get here?’
And I got to tell you, after standing up with them, some of these people frighten me — they frighten me!”
Well, it wasn’t Mike Gravel, but I’ll give him bonus points for entertainment value and for quoting Ronald Reagan. The media can wrestle over their pick – Hillary or Barama – but I think it’s safe to say here in Nuevo Mexico that Bill Richardson was a bit off his feed last night.
Williams: Governor Richardson, you were one of the last people on this stage to call for the resignation of the attorney general, Attorney General Gonzales. When asked by a journalist why you were taking long to make up your mind about this, you replied, quote, “It’s because he’s Hispanic. I’m honest.”
Is that the right way to make personnel decisions?
Richardson: That’s how I felt.
Now, what I said, too, Brian, was that I wanted to await Alberto Gonzales’s testimony before the U.S. Senate, before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
He hadn’t had a chance to fully explain why, number one, he’d politicized the Justice Department; number two, why he indiscriminately fired U.S. attorneys, including one in New Mexico who was just doing his job and was being pushed to have some political indictments; and third, why is it that, as attorney general, he did not — he did not act as the lawyer for the American people rather than as the lawyer and political adviser to the White House, staff and the president.
So, yeah, you know, he’s — came from nothing. I know the guy. Did it affect that he was Hispanic in what I said? Yeah, it did, and I said so.
I think the American people want candor. They don’t want blow-dried candidates with perfection. That was the reason I held back. I did call for his resignation.
Maybe I was last, but I wanted to give him a chance to explain his position. He didn’t do it, and I called for his resignation.
Williams: Governor, thank you.
Where to begin. It’s unfortunate, but if you live in Nuevo Mexico you wake up every morning and thank God for Louisiana and Mississippi. Our governor is now on record for saying that the American people want candor and he certainly delivered. I hope viewers of last night’s “debate” also got a glimpse of how our state really works.
Coincidentally, a few nights ago, Dateline NBC aired an episode profiling “the ultimate con artist.”
“Say hello to Fred Brito, a smiling cherubic liar.”
Fred moved around a lot and he adopted new names with each relocation and each new career. As a psychiatrist, he was Dr. F. Mark Esparza. In Albuquerque, he became Mark Gomez and soon he was receiving commendations from Bernalillo County Commissioners, the New Mexico House of Representatives and the State Senate. Ken Sanchez, who was interviewed by NBC’s Josh Mankiewicz, had been one of the Commissioners then; now he’s an Albuquerque City Councilor. Sanchez was unaware that Gomez was really Fred Brito, an impostor.
But Sanchez wasn’t the only one fooled. Couples at the Arizona church where Catholic priest Father Federico B. Gomez de Esparza (a.k.a. Fred Brito) presided over their weddings were also fooled.
As Federiqkoe DiBritto, he worked as Director of Development for the Division of Digestive Diseases at UCLA. As Frederiq Brito-Gomez he was Chief Financial Development Officer for the Red Cross. At the end of the show, Mankiewicz says he was last seen in Albuquerque – hired, then fired, by a performing arts academy. I’m pretty sure I know the one he’s talking about.
It’s no surprise that Brito did so well here in the Southwest. After all, he was fluent in Spanish and many of the aliases he chose sounded Hispanic so no one questioned their authenticity.
Like Brian Williams said to our governor: Is that the right way to make personnel decisions? If you live in Nuevo Mexico, it is.
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