Dick Wadhams, Comeback Kid

Dick Wadhams and co...

...deserve a lot of credit for fundraising our Party out of debt - going into 2010 with funds, rather than debt, is going to help our good Party tremendously

TABOR4LIFE

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by: Muhammad Ali Hasan @ Fri Sep 25, 2009 at 16:40:09 PM CDT

Well, there's a positive note albeit one that has absolutely zilch

to do with the question posed--is there a better indicator, Ali?

"The only way you could be worse is if you were Wade Norris." Ralphie

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by: Middle of the Road @ Fri Sep 25, 2009 at 16:43:04 PM CDT

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I thought they soaked the CA GOP

and that's how Dick got them out of the red.  

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!" - Nietzsche  

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by: twas brillig @ Fri Sep 25, 2009 at 16:48:31 PM CDT

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Precisely. You're correct.

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by: Republican 36 @ Fri Sep 25, 2009 at 17:13:32 PM CDT

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Aha! Found the link

http://coloradopols.com/showDi...

California Bails Out Dick Wadhams

And that's what this four-sentence news blurb is really all about: obviously initiated by a notorious Wadhams press call, no mention that the money bailing out Wadhams' $580,000 in debt was unsustainably gifted to him by California--forget all those piffling details, he can even keep paying himself his six-digit salary for a few more months. Break out the champagne!

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!" - Nietzsche  

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by: twas brillig @ Sat Sep 26, 2009 at 09:38:18 AM CDT

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give the devil his due

Someone had to go to Arnold with cup in hand begging for $$$.

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by: One Queer Dude @ Fri Sep 25, 2009 at 18:47:31 PM CDT

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For the past couple of years Dick Wadhams has been helping our good Party tremendously, too

We can call him a win-win situation!

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by: One Queer Dude @ Fri Sep 25, 2009 at 18:45:48 PM CDT

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At the end of the day...

Dick Wadhams and co got us out of debt - I love him for it

As far as GJ is concerned - Laura Bradford worked very very hard - that was the difference

TABOR4LIFE

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by: Muhammad Ali Hasan @ Sat Sep 26, 2009 at 10:25:53 AM CDT

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I'm sure that's why CA GOP sent $2m

And not for GOTV.  

"It is hard enough to remember my opinions, without also remembering my reasons for them!" - Nietzsche  

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by: twas brillig @ Sat Sep 26, 2009 at 10:57:13 AM CDT

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"whatever it takes"

TABOR4LIFE

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by: Muhammad Ali Hasan @ Sat Sep 26, 2009 at 11:41:58 AM CDT

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How did the party of "fiscal responsibility" ever get into debt in the first place?

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by: Canines @ Mon Sep 28, 2009 at 20:51:10 PM CDT

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By slashing dues

and cutting fundraising while paying for two massive, "off-book" campaigns.

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by: RedGreen @ Tue Sep 29, 2009 at 02:35:45 AM CDT

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Buescher example poor

I agree it's not the example DickWad should look at. Buescher won two elections in a Republican-dominated district because he was well-known, ran a good campaign and the GOP ran a complete nutcase. Bradford can be called many things, but nutcase isn't one of them.

In addition, by the time the election rolled around last year, the oil and gas boom was starting to bust. COGA and the industry had the electorate well-primed to blame Ritter and the Democrats for wrecking the boom through new regs. Never mind that the new regs hadn't been approved by the legislature yet, and were months away from taking effect. Never mind that the price of natural gas was falling like a rock.

Lastly, remember that the top radio programs in the Grand Junction, by far, are Rushbo and Hannity. O'Reilly and Beck are tops on TV. And Palin campaigned in Grand Junction.

That Buescher lost by only 500 votes or so was amazing.

But the race had nothing to do with Republican chances statewide. Not every county has an easily-misled electorate as Mesa.

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by: gertie97 @ Fri Sep 25, 2009 at 18:03:22 PM CDT

Buescher

I am surprised, suuuprised, that BB has not drawn a more credible GOP challenger.  Not because I have anything against him, but because, you know.....

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by: Jambalaya @ Fri Sep 25, 2009 at 18:31:44 PM CDT

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Too few

There are too few credible GOP challengers to go around.

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by: Emma Anne @ Fri Sep 25, 2009 at 19:42:18 PM CDT

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I think that Buescher's challenger is quite credible

He'll raise a lot of money.

His biggest problem is that he's always suing on behalf of crooks.

Maybe that's where his money will come from.

But as a lawyer, you don't always get to choose.  When my youngest daughter was in high school, she was a defense attorney in "teen court."  In one trial, the teen jury gave her client a much worse sentence than the teen DA asked for.

The judge (a real one and former Public Defender) took her aside and said, "Don't take it personally.  As a defense attorney, you rarely get the privilege of representing nice people."

That describes Gessler to a "T."  Advocate for scumbags.

Best to kill them early instead of letting them possibly need food stamps.
--marilou, 2010

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by: Ralphie @ Fri Sep 25, 2009 at 21:17:38 PM CDT

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That's a stretch

that Gessler hasn't chosen his clientele.  

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by: RedGreen @ Sat Sep 26, 2009 at 00:26:21 AM CDT

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It was snark

n/t

Best to kill them early instead of letting them possibly need food stamps.
--marilou, 2010

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by: Ralphie @ Sat Sep 26, 2009 at 08:13:55 AM CDT

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From the front lines

Oil and gas fueled 527's and 501c4's were just warming up with Buescher's race and the GarCo commissioner races in 2008. McInnis was part of the action (that is why he will win the primary.) Now they are going to use the same successful campaign framework against targeted Democrats like Ritter, Curry, and Schwartz. If Democratic consultants would study those particular races from 2008 maybe they could give better advice to their 2010 clients.

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by: WestSloper @ Sat Sep 26, 2009 at 00:01:08 AM CDT

I was at the dinner...

...and I'm feeling much better than I was about Josh Penry, among others.

Mr. Wadhams may have used a bad "indicator" (I'm not sure one way or another), but the GOP-sweep is gonna happen.

Prepare yourselves.

Health care "reform" will die in the Senate, and for their efforts, Democrats will be widely thrown out of office in 2010.  Don't say I didn't warn you.

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by: BoulderRepublican @ Sat Sep 26, 2009 at 01:46:51 AM CDT

Ok, I'm less worried

You are so consistently wrong that if you think the GOP has it in the bag, you're probably actually in deep doo-doo.

Tom Tancredo Interview

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by: DavidThi808 @ Sat Sep 26, 2009 at 10:19:42 AM CDT

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Doo-doo.

Good use of vocabulary.  Welcome to an adult conversation.

Health care "reform" will die in the Senate, and for their efforts, Democrats will be widely thrown out of office in 2010.  Don't say I didn't warn you.

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by: BoulderRepublican @ Sat Sep 26, 2009 at 13:04:10 PM CDT

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IIRC, Daddy Bush used the term "deep doo-doo" back in 1980...

...when he was running against Bonzo in the N.H. primary.  That was also the race where Bush talked about his Big Mo and Little Mo while Reagan made his famous "I'm paying for this microphone" sound bite on TV.

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by: One Queer Dude @ Sat Sep 26, 2009 at 18:06:12 PM CDT

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Have you tried to start an adult conversation here?

I guess i must have missed it.

By the way, some people just don't like to curse.  While I might not be one of them, I applaud them for trying to be adults with respect to appropriate use of language.

Best to kill them early instead of letting them possibly need food stamps.
--marilou, 2010

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by: Ralphie @ Sun Sep 27, 2009 at 20:04:32 PM CDT

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