Richardson Hires A Senior Pollster
He's Paul Maslin, who has polled for Democratic luminaries across the board. In 2003, he polled for ex-VT Gov. Howard Dean, and when that campaign ended, penned a revealing essay about his experiences for the Atlantic, a publication that lives two floors up from the Hotline.
SANTA FE, NM – Governor Bill Richardson today announced that Paul Maslin, a leading Democratic pollster, has joined his Presidential campaign. "Paul will be a great addition to my campaign and will serve as a senior advisor,” stated Governor Bill Richardson. “His over twenty-five years of political experience will help guide my campaign and our message to the American people.” Paul Maslin is a senior partner at Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin & Associates, one of the leading public opinion firms in the country. Paul has advised six presidential candidates, a dozen U.S. Senators, and scores of Governors, mayors and members of Congress. In 2003-2004, he was the pollster and one of the key strategists in Howard Dean's groundbreaking run for President which opened new venues for grassroots organizing and fundraising “Governor Bill Richardson is the most qualified candidate running for President,” stated Paul Maslin. “And I am looking forward to working with the team to develop key policy initiatives and messages that will connect with the American voters.”In 1998, Maslin played an instrumental role in the election of Gray Davis — California's first Democratic governor in 16 years and only the fourth Democrat in the 20th century.
Additionally, Maslin has advised many major organizations and foundations including the American Federation of Teachers, the League of Conservation Voters, the National Education Association, and the Wellness Foundation; as well as corporations such as American Express, Coca Cola, Disney, Levi-Strauss, Pacific Bell, and Pacific Gas and Electric.
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Great article on Governor Richardson. This is what one New Mexican has to say: Richardson's International Resume is Urgently Needed.
“One thing the Bush administration has never understood is that diplomacy and military power are not alternatives to one another, but rather are complementary sources of strength. Because diplomacy without power is weak, and power without diplomacy is blind.”
This is the core of New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson’s international platform, taken from a speech he gave in New Hampshire in late 2006, and the kind of insight he gained as a UN Ambassador and Energy Secretary during Clinton. His international resume is a breath of fresh air, and since the USA needs urgently to rebuild and to entirely rethink its international policies, after 6 years of corporate Halliburton-driven plutocracy, I believe Richardson really MUST become President.
Our domestic economy is in the pits because of hundreds of billions of dollars going to Iraq and to Afghanistan, mostly military expenditures, all to advance the Bush Administration’s corporate agenda. Other nations are capitalizing on our errors and our distractions, like China with its trillion dollar balance of payments, as well as Russia, which funded many of the developing nations in their colonial struggles, both pointing to our oppressive presence in Iraq, telling African, South Asian, and South
American nations that they are perfectly willing to BUY their natural resources, instead of plundering them.
The international backlash of a totally failed USA foreign policy has profound implications for a worsening USA domestic economy, and the situation is getting seriously worse by the day. This is why I support Bill Richardson’s presidential campaign. He recently stated the war would be over on his first day in office, and his trip to North Korea is already bringing important results.
Here is another quote from 3/28: "I would not leave any troops in Iraq. ... If I were president today, I would withdraw by the end of this calendar year…. But I would also have a reconciliation conference of the three religious groups, forge a coalition government, and divide the country into three entities. ... I don't believe you need a residual force in Iraq. I believe you need any troops that you can deploy from Iraq. I would put them in Afghanistan, where al Qaeda and the Taliban are serious threats"
("Hardball," MSNBC, 3/28).
How about putting USA’s troops nowhere, for a change? Truly,
Stephen Fox
(P.S. I am in no way connected with the Richardson campaign; these are my own views entirely)