Bill Richardson telling tall tales again

Back in the 1960s, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson began making the claim that he had been drafted by the Kansas City Athletics baseball team. In 2005, he was forced to admit that it never happened.

Although he says he recalls the event differently, it appears Richardson has been caught fibbing again, as AP reports:

Presidential hopeful Bill Richardson said Sunday he will stop using the name of a Marine from New Mexico who was killed in Iraq and whose story the Democratic governor has recounted while campaigning.

Richardson has told how he attended a memorial service three years ago for Lance Cpl. Aaron Austin, 21, who was killed in April 2004. The governor said Austin's mother, De'on Miller of Lovington, N.M., thanked him for the federal death benefits she had received. Miller says the conversation about money never took place.

Richardson, who said the conversation inspired him to ask the New Mexico Legislature for a now- passed death benefit for members of the state's National Guard, was asked on NBC's "Meet the Press" whether he would stop citing Austin and Miller.

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