Friends and admirers of former Gov. Bill Richardson are mourning the hard-charging politician whose career spanned the globe, from mountain villages of northern New Mexico as a youthful congressman, to the United Nations and a litany of countries on un...
FILE - President-elect Barack Obama and Commerce Secretary designate New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson laugh after a question was asked about Richardson's beard, Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2008, during a news conference in Chicago. Friends and admirers of former Gov. Richardson are mourning the hard-charging politician whose career spanned the globe. Richardson’s casket was scheduled to lie in state Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2023, in the rotunda of the New Mexico Statehouse.
“He admired legislators who showed spunk and integrity and didn't give in to his ‘my way or the highway,'" tactics, said state Rep. Miguel Trujillo of Albuquerque, who led a House committee on labor during Richardson's tenure as state governor. “He was also a hard-charging person," Egolf said of Richardson. "If he disagreed with somebody who was his friend, he wouldn't back down, he would mix it up. ... But he always came back around and said, ‘It’s over. ... He'd shake your hand and move forward.”
The state's Hispanic heritage was a good fit as Richardson campaigned for Congress and won his second bid in 1982 for a newly created district spanning northern New Mexico.
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