Bill Richardson Makes Headlines

Bill RichardsonFinally! Bill Richardson gets some media attention. But this is probably not exactly how he envisioned it.

One of Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson's top organizers in rural Nevada resigned Thursday after the campaign learned he had worked for a brothel and was wanted on a felony arrest warrant in California.

"We did not know about all of this," Richardson spokesman Josh McNeil said after the staffer's record was brought to the campaign's attention by The Associated Press. "We accepted his resignation today."

This doesn't even win him any votes in the pro-brothel community, as one of the charges against the guy in question was that he was stiffing the workers their pay. What can you say about a guy that can't run an honest brothel?

For Richardson, apparently a lack of funds also means a lack of means for background checks and such. Either that or building an organization means scraping the bottom of the barrell so to speak. Long term damage to the campaign is minimal, except for the Nevada organization.

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