Did Bill Richardson really Support the Sandinistas?

[Bullet1987]

I heard this repeated on Tucker or Hardball (one of those shows) and was wondering if it were true?

[juno jones]

1. As long as it doesn't count that St. Ronnie

supported the contras...

[FrenchieCat]

2. Google is your friend.....

But if you heard it on the corporate media, If I were you.....I'd be highly doubtful, period. No matter if it appears to be a good thing or a not so good thing.

[On the Road]

3. Would it Bother You if He Supported the Sandanistas?

It would make me think more highly of him.

[Bullet1987]

6. Hold on....

False alarm. I was getting the Sandinista's mixed up with the Contra's...

[Forkboy]

4. Well damn,I hope so!

[Greeby]

5. A better question would be: Why is that a bad thing?

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=2078191664963171759&q=John+Pilger

Watch John Pilger's 1983 documentary "Nicaragua: A Nation's Right To Survive" and you'd be hard-pressed to think of an answer

[Bullet1987]

7. False alarm...see two posts above.

[Colobo]

9. As a Latin American

I have no respect for the Latin American left... at all, and I 'll leave it there...

[FrenchieCat]

8. Nothing in Googles that I could find regarding Richardson and the Sandinistas

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-US&pwst=1&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&q=sandinistas,+bill+richardson&spell=1

[OHdem10]

10. I thought they were talking about Dodd

anyway, it should not matter whether he supported Sadinistas
or not.

[FrenchieCat]

11. These days, if it is just said that a candidate is supporting a "group" with a

Foreign sounding name, it's a hit.

That's how simple the game is to play!

[jaysunb]

12. I did...

and would hope he did also.....

[Forkboy]

13. Here's some stuff

The spectacularly imprudent visit of President Daniel Ortega to Moscow is credited with changing marginal congressional minds. They must have been very marginal minds indeed to have been surprised that a Marxist-Leninist would pay a visit to his handlers.

Senator Christopher Dodd (D., Conn.) made the point. "Where did many of my colleagues think he was going to go? Disney World?" Dodd, of course, does not mind Communoid regimes springing up south of the Rio Grande like toadstools, and he stayed in the pro-Sandinista camp. He was almost equaled in awfulness by one of the switchers, Representative William B. Richardson (D., N.M.). "I've been willing to give Daniel Ortega the benefit of the doubt, and that's produced nothing. So I'm willing to give the President a try." Glad to hear it, Bill. Meanwhile, back in Managua, Ortega's brother, the defense minister (wasn't nepotism one of the Somozas' sins?), puffed himself up like a big bullfrog and warned that if ever the United States intervened directly, "popular forces throughout Latin America will unleash their violence." Eeek!

Bold mine...because the word "Communoid" just makes me laugh.Actually the whole paragraph is hilarious.I love Freeper mentality in full meltdown mode.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1282/is_v37/ai_3853972

but the there's this,from a source only slightly less biased;

During the mid-1980s, Richardson was a leading opponent of aid to the contra rebels until he visited Nicaragua in 1985 and concluded that humanitarian assistance was needed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/iraq/keyplayers/rich121496.htm

But this stuff seems to be the where you really want to look;

H.RES.139
Title: A resolution condemning the violations of human rights committed by the Government of Nicaragua and by the Nicaraguan insurgent forces, including the so-called "Contras".

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d099:4:./temp/~bdCLpc::

42. H.AMDT.279 to H.R.1555 An amendment prohibiting the diversion of assistance for Nicaragua for acquisition of weapons or other materials that could be used to inflict serious bodily harm or death. The amendment also states the concerns of the U.S. about Nicaraguan foreign and domestic policies.

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/D?d099:42:./temp/~bdTjXp::