There’s been a lot of buzz among Republicans this week about efforts to discredit GOP gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes in advance of the Republican state convention.
Joe Gschwendtner, who announced his campaign for Governor just a few weeks ago, is being discussed as nothing more than a “straw man” candidate entered into the race in order to discredit Maes, whose surprising returns in the caucuses have Scott McInnis worried that he’ll make the 30% threshold for ballot access in the Primary.
In the last week, many Republicans have reported receiving robo-calls from Joe Gschwendtner “Joe G” that were done entirely to rip into Maes and discredit him. One of the calls promotes the website Dan Maes Can’t Win, which has led to the “straw man” argument about Gschwendtner; after all, why would “Joe G” work so hard to discredit Maes, when his obvious competition is really McInnis?
The McInnis campaign is absolutely worried about Maes making the Primary ballot, and for good reason; while Maes almost certainly cannot win the Primary, he would definitely force McInnis to spend time and money in a race that he doesn’t want to deal with.
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Anyone want to ask who’s been fronting Joe’s money and all of those calls?
He loaned himself $129K back on April Fool’s Day.
Registrant:
Kyle Fisk
516 W Willamette Ave
Colorado Springs, Colorado 80905
United States
(kfisk@bullhorncommunication.com)
There’s a redirect in there from ideasforcolorado.com, which comes back to
Fisk, Nathan nbfisk@gmail.com
Fisk Media
1197 Autumn Star Pt.
Monument, Colorado 80132
United States
(719) 359-1244
Interesting that there’s no “paid for” on that web site.
Fisky to me.
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piranhas.
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Prediction: Dan Maes qualifies for the GOP ballot with 35% and makes life miserable for Scott McInnis every day from now until the primary
He might not be in as much trouble. (On the flip side, it might be even worse.)
he’ll suddenly be as candid as Dr. Paul
He’s like one of those cartoon figures with the fill-in-the-blank bubble over his head.
That is going to leave a mark.
It might be the best description yet of chameleon man.
it’s a simple target list.
1.) Maes
2.) McInnis
3.) Hickenlooper.
Focusing on a latter target would not make sense.
Joe put out a really interesting video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…
And why doesn’t it say so?
I just scrolled to the bottom of the site and it says
“I know Joe Gschwendtner and he is my pick for Governor! This site is paid for by the Joe G for Governor team. Take a minute and visit their campaign site at JoeGforColorado.com. Thanks for taking the time to visit on my site and I hope to see you soon. -Leslie”
and Kyle Fisk is Joe’s comm director. It says on this link
http://joegforcolorado.com/joe…
It said: “I know Joe Gschwendtner and he is my pick for Governor! Thanks for taking the time to visit on my site and I hope to see you soon. -Leslie”
Thanks for becoming compliant with campaign finance rules.
It’s a non-issue now.
Ever heard of less is more? Need to work on that video. It could have been half as short. Opening statement is way to long.
“Joe G vs Dan Maes” is a waste of time at about seventeen seconds long. Could have been five.
All other “scenes” can be cut almost in half.
I spent the whole time I had watching it thinking, “Man this is such a waste of time.” You don’t want voters thinking that, you want them remembering your name and what you stand for.
Plus, pay for some extra views or have some volunteer click your video over and over, something to show that people even care about your video because at 24 views, we know you’re not getting heard.
Joe G may not be a real candidate trying to win — just someone trying to weaken Maes for McInnis.
That’s freakin’ pathetic.
It’s my understanding he needs to put “paid for by xyz” as well. Get that one there quick.
Maybe they’ll get the hang of this campaign stuff soon.
It’s gone viral!
Hey–somebody tell your strategist that working for Big Pharma is not exactly a voter magnet these days.
McInnis has pulled even with Hickenlooper. All the polls agree.
Why in the world would Republicans not want to vote for a professional lobbyist who flip flops more than a fish out of water?
DC Republicans are slanted towards big money corporate flunkies and are desperate to put Maes in an unmarked grave. The problem is that Republicans have been unhinged and want to go as pure and extremist as possible thinking that the rest of the country wants more Rand Pauls/Sarah Palins. Who would have thought there is a bigger doofus in the Republican Party than the big time loser Palin. I’m sure after he snatches defeat from the jaws of victory in November he will have a long and glorious career competing with Palin for dumbest remark on every issue.
Maes represents the extreme Republican Party more than the moderate(?) McInnis so it is doubtful that all these devious tactics will do anything more than resurrect the ghost of Marc Holtzman. It is going to be an interesting Republican state assembly.
the Republicans have McInnis who changed his mind once regarding abortion. Or, they have Maes who is extremely far right, no political experience, and some odd views on immigration..
Once on term limits, no make that a couple of extra terms after he changed his mind.
And he allegedly paid his wife out of campaign funds when there was no active campaign. And he won’t release his tax returns…
Anyone else want to add to the list?
as a member of its advisory board, no less and his little “oops” moment about coordinating with a 527, and his charitable donations that he can’t seem to prove, and his claim that he gave generously to the RNC which a quick check of public records proved was a lie…
Okay, who wants to keep the thread going? Shouldn’t be hard…
McInnis has paid his wife to manage his inactive Congressional campaign account for years. It’s well-documented.
“Allegedly” is one of the first words we learn.
“Joe” is so, well, “Joe the Plumber.”
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Write a 50-word bio on the guy.
If at all accurate, the reason Maes is unelectable jumps off the page.
He’s not a child abuser, but made his money in an industry just about as popular.
McInnis would be silly to worry about this guy.
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Why throw away any shred of being a moderate if he wasn’t genuinely scared that the crazies in the Republican Party will oust him like all the others. Perhaps the bigger issue is that McInnis will beat Maes but Maes will make the primary ballot forcing McInnis to run the gauntlet of crazy Republican primary voters so his best chance is to get rid of Maes now and avoid having to go even more to the right to fend off a primary challenge which could be fatally damaging to his general chances.
You are right that McInnis shouldn’t have to be concerned about Maes but these are Republicans we are talking about.
says he’ll get top line. Not sure where I saw that, been surfing around.
Even I didn’t see it coming. I thought he’d do well, but my goodness, he kicked butt! The caucus polling was 60-40 McInnis.