You wouldn’t know it from reading our local newspapers, but a huge fight within the Democratic Party is coming to an end, Governor Richardson was a major combatant and he lost.
There have been paragraphs, of course, about Bill Richardson’s role in selecting the new Democratic Chairman, just no thoughtful dope story.
Not so at the New York Times, where the battle between former Vermont Governor Howard Dean, who wanted the job, and lots of other Democrats engaged in a stop-Dean campaign, was the top national story a couple of days ago.
Today, the Journal notes that John Wertheim, chairman of the state Democratic Party, has endorsed Dean. I take that to mean that Governor Richardson has thrown in the towel, but wants distance from the defeat.