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Wiens Hits Norton on "Your Show"

by: Colorado Pols

Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 12:04:05 PM MST

If you haven't yet seen GOP Senate candidate Tom Wiens on 9NEWS' Your Show with Adam Schrager from yesterday, it's an interview worth watching. Wiens comes across as engaging and comfortable discussing complex issues--we were impressed. We'd post the video here directly but we haven't figured out how to make 9NEWS video load without autoplaying.

Some of Wiens' remarks seem directly aimed at opponent Jane Norton--transcribed below:

You look at how this election is developing just already right here in Colorado and throughout the nation. You have Washington special interest lobbyists that are so committed to the system [as] it exists right now that they can't afford to have independent people to be elected to the United States Senate. [Pols emphasis] And we've got to make sure that people of Colorado stand up and really understand what's at stake in this next election. So, in order to fix the things that are wrong in Washington, that has to change at the grassroots level.

So, ah, who do you think he's talking about? As we've said about similar remarks from gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry, Wiens is very smart to play himself off "D.C. corruption," Republican and Democrat undistinguished--it could pay off brilliantly if a wave of anti-establishment backlash prevails in next year's elections.

Starting with the primary?

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Tom Wiens..

I have never heard of Tom Wiens until he announced his campaign but nevertheless I am impressed. I like the beginning of the video where he says "Right now if you are at the top, you should get a bailout. If you are at the bottom, you should get a handout. But if you are the rest of us in the middle, all we get is the bill." It's a good phrase to repeat over and over again to arouse populist sentiment. I think he may be a formidable opponent to Jane Norton.

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by: TheRINO @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 13:18:27 PM CST

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<i> Forgotten Americans <i/> is how

he refers to us in the middle on his website. Franj Luntz hard at work.

I say - what about all the forgotten shareholders and creditors of Wiens's own failed business ventures?

Absent major gaffe and with real $ he will be very competitive for the nomination.

by: MADCO @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 14:56:04 PM CST

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many successful and talented people have failures

Sometimes(most of the time)its those failures that make our leaders successful.

by: elleb @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 15:39:54 PM CST

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are you speaking with actual knowledge

direct knowledge of his failed busiensses?
Shareholder? Creditor?

by: MADCO @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 18:45:17 PM CST

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Do you have direct knowledge?

Why does his "forgotten shareholders" matter? They invested with the known risk to anyone who invests in a company that all the value can be wiped out. It is true that one's failures are one's greatest learning experiences.. but anyway.. do you have a direct knowledge of his business history?

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by: TheRINO @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 22:20:52 PM CST

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No, I don't

I just know there are always disgruntled, gruntled and less gruntled shareholders and creditors.

And I'm curious whether any of them would prefer Wiens address their loss before he addresses ours and if so whether any of their gripes are legitimate or like you said, the result of the way the cookie crumbled.

by: MADCO @ Tue Nov 10, 2009 at 15:20:15 PM CST

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Why do so many politicians have only two types of hairstyles?

Too much Brylcreem or too much Hairspray.

by: Half Glass Full @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 13:38:10 PM CST

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Not a bad position to be in...

He gets to go after Norton and Bennet at the same time.

by: Leonard Smalls @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 14:00:14 PM CST

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And Dems will stay tuned

for any gifts like "Both Ways Bob".

by: BlueCat @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 14:17:33 PM CST

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Very solid performance

Although there's that bit where he mentions he didn't provide his employees with health care.

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

by: twas brillig @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 14:28:28 PM CST

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True, but at least he has exec experience

he really knows how hard it is sometimes to be a small business owner. I like him be up front with all of that rather than pretend like it's all smooth sailing for someone with his amount of success.

by: elleb @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 15:38:00 PM CST

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I know what it's like to be a small business employee

Funny how that platitude has just as much depth as yours, but even I know it has jack shit to do with being a US Senator.

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

by: twas brillig @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 16:05:18 PM CST

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I think there is value in having run companies

It teaches you to learn how to determine what matters, how to focus on it, and to make decisions based on things as they are, not as you wish they were. All very useful attributes in a Senator.

Those are the same skills Senator Bennet brings to the table.

Where you gonna go for business reporting software?

by: DavidThi808 @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 23:02:19 PM CST

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He's running for Senate

not an executive office.

"Nice driveby spin" -- Libertad

by: redstateblues @ Mon Nov 09, 2009 at 17:10:28 PM CST

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From what I have seen . . .

Wiens looks like a viable alternative, and one that has at least the potential to derail Norton.

I thought he did a solid job in that interview, and if I were to vote in the Republican primary at this point I'd vote for him in preference to Norton.

Discipline without purpose is tyranny.

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