U.S. Snubs Border Gov. Conference

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What an ass GOP Governor!!!!!!!!

SANTA FE, N.M. — There was plenty of star power present at the kickoff reception for the U.S.-Mexico border governors’ conference on Sunday night. Over there, Shirley MacLaine, the actress. And there, Sam Donaldson, the newsman. All around, politicians from Mexico.

But it was those who did not show up to sip margaritas at Gov. Bill Richardson’s hilltop home who were the subject of the most attention.

Gov. Jan Brewer of Arizona and Gov. Rick Perry of Texas stayed away from the session, which Mr. Richardson organized after six Mexican governors, in protest of Arizona’s immigration crackdown, refused to attend a summit that Ms. Brewer had been planning in Phoenix.

Then, at the last minute, there was another no show. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger of California, a co-chairman of the rogue session in Santa Fe, sent word that budget woes in Sacramento would prevent him from attending. He sent his lieutenant governor, Abel Maldonado, instead.

Although Mr. Maldonado dazzled the crowd by recounting, in Spanish, how he was the son of Mexican field workers, it was not lost on anybody that Mr. Schwarzenegger’s absence meant Mr. Richardson was the lone governor from the United States at the session.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/20/border-governors-conference-under-way-minus-most-u-s-governors/