Link: Richardson arrived in N.M. with eye toward Congress and beyond - SantaFeNewMexican.com.
A recent profile of Gov. Bill Richardson in The Kansas City Star described the governor as "a man who in three decades has never lost an election." That's almost correct.
In 1980, only two years after moving to New Mexico, Richardson lost his first election campaign to Republican Congressman Manuel Lujan Jr.
Though it was a defeat, the race was so close it could be considered a moral victory. Despite being labeled as a political "carpetbagger" who chose a heavily Hispanic and Democrat-friendly area to launch his political career, he lost to an entrenched incumbent by less than 1 percent of the vote.
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