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Congress Members Send Out Nomination Of Richardson For Nobel Peace Prize
A group of House members have sent out a packet nominating Bill Richardson for a Nobel Peace Prize, in honor of Richardson's work in such countries as Sudan and North Korea. "I'm profoundly humbled by this nomination, but I was just trying to do my part," Richardson said
Some of the 12 members who co-signed the packet are Richardson endorsers, but others are not — one is even a Republican, Jim Ramstad of Minnesota. However, it's unclear whether any of them are among the roughly 3,000 officially designated nominators that the Nobel Committee selects each year, or whether this is one of the many unsolicited nominations that the Committee receives regularly.
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I nominated myself - why isn't there a blog about that.
No one cares what non-official members do. how silly
November 15, 2007 9:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
Is there any truth to the rumor that this cost Richardson ELEVEN all-expense paid golf trips and one hard-rubber sex-toy?
Inquiring minds wanta know . . .
November 15, 2007 10:32 AM | Reply | Permalink
You might want to do a few seconds research on the peace prize nominating process. The house members are clearly eligible nominators.
From http://nobelpeaceprize.org/eng_com_nom.html
New nomination rules, effective from 2003. Compared to the old rules the list of nominators has been slightly expanded.
Any one of the following persons is entitled to submit proposals:
members of national assemblies and governments;
members of international courts of law;
university chancellors;
university professors of social science, history, philosophy, law and theology;
leaders of peace research institutes and institutes of foreign affairs;
former Nobel Peace Prize laureates;
board members of organisations that have received the Nobel Peace Prize;
present and past members of the Norwegian Nobel Committee; (committee members must present their nomination at the latest at the first committee meeting after February 1);
former advisers at the Norwegian Nobel Institute.
November 15, 2007 3:52 PM | Reply | Permalink