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Democratic presidential candidate Gov. Bill Richardson speaks to reporters after officially launching his 2008 bid at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. Richardson vowed in the speech Monday to repair the "ravages" of the Bush administration if he wins the Democratic nomination, then the presidency.

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He's running for what?

OK, if the whole president thing doesn't work out, how about Bill Richardson for director of the ONDCP?

To Daniel Radosh, who runs the Web site radosh.net, that apparently seems like a good idea. The site's latest entry is "Bill Richardson for Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy."

Radosh rants about a news report about a Michigan police officer who called 911 after he and his wife ate too many pot brownies and thought they were dying. Yeah.

In any state, the officer could be arrested for possession, Radosh wrote. That's any state except New Mexico, where Richardson this year signed a bill that's meant to encourage prompt reporting of overdoses, Radosh points out.

Back to you, Martha

CNN gave the governor one whole minute for his I'm-really-running announcement. The other cable news networks kind of blipped on him and moved on to other news.

KOB-Channel 4 had him on the longest. The station, however, had to get back to Martha Stewart. Bummer. All dressed up and no one was watching.

Not totally true, of course. Richardson got ink (can we call online ink "oink"?) in all the big pubs, although most of the reporting was the straight "he announced today" kind of stuff. And, he got play in V-me, a new national Spanish network that works with public TV stations. ÁQue bueno!

What about the bloggers?

Not all reporters and bloggers could hit the big event in Los Angeles, so Richardson invited bloggers to a conference call at 6:10 p.m., New Mexico time. That was nice. (For the record, the Kates, bloggeriffic as we are, were not invited.)

From the press room in Santa Fe, a colleague dialed the number, a minute or two late - five minutes tops. We planned to check it out, via speakerphone, for a little group analysis.

The person who answered, however, said the conference was already over.

Wow. A minutes-long conference with Richardson would be a new record, by far. Maybe he's put his speeches on a diet, too.