Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Bill Richardson, the Woman's Candidate   [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

From AP:

Presidential hopeful Bill Richardson said yesterday that he will not concede the women's vote to rival candidate Hillary Clinton and opened his courtship of the crucial Democratic voting bloc by pledging to protect the right to abortion.

Apparently he didn't use the approach Ryan Lizza recently observed from him at a campaign event though:

as we get up from our seats to visit the play-by-play announcer's booth, Richardson does something I've never seen any politician do. There are two women sitting in front of us. They are both young and attractive, probably in their twenties. The governor rotates his large frame sideways and shimmies out of his row. The two women smile up at him. As he passes, Richardson reaches down and places his fingertips on the head of one of the women, tickling her scalp as he opens and closes his hand. Then, as he reaches for the next scalp, his hand suddenly aborts its mission, as if the governor realizes this wasn't such a good idea after all.

07/17 10:42 AMShare