Reply #7: Hefty to-do list awaits

[MelissaB]

Hefty to-do list awaits
Pre-K, tax cuts, DWI, election reform among the priorities

By Shea Andersen
Tribune Reporter
January 18, 2005


In his opening speech today to the Legislature, Gov. Bill Richardson will be casting lots of hooks even as he knows he won't always get bites.

The first-term governor, who has boasted of a near-total success in getting agendas through the Legislature, downplayed his chances of repeating that record.

"We're not going to get 97 percent this time," Richardson said Monday. "It's going to be more modest."

His to-do list, however, is anything but modest.

Democrat Richardson said he has an "action-packed agenda" for the 60-day session that starts today in Santa Fe.

Chief among those items:

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Election reform: Richardson said he will announce his own proposal for voter identification requirements, something Republican lawmakers have craved for years.


More: http://www.abqtrib.com/albq/nw_local_state_government/article/0,2564,ALBQ_19859_3478723,00.html