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July 29, 2010 01:18 AM UTC
44 Comments
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There are so many folks who might think that they’d benefit, it is hard to pick one as the likely suspect.
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what with his plan to destroy the Republican party this year nearly almost complete.
Jsut wondering. He hasn’t been in the news yet today. I thought the tv news would have been getting quotes from him about the Arizona law ruling.
He’s got a campaign to put together. You can’t be all crazy in the media 24/7.
He’s had paid operatives bashing Maes for months now.
Trying to get his name in the news again
I need to go buy some tea.
If he really filed the complaint with Suthers, I doubt it’s his own campaign trying to get sympathy. Someone quick check with Suthers to verify the complaint.
Other than that, could be just about anyone. McInnis is ‘in it to win it’ – could be him. Tancredo might feel his message diminished should Maes win the primary – could be him. Could be an independent Tea Party fanatic trying to boost sympathy for Maes. No real good reason for any Dem group to try this…
Suthers confirmed it on Caplis & Silverman this afternoon.
I doubt it was Maes.
He doesn’t strike me as the guy who thinks that way.
(well, assuming he’s got any kind of sanity at all…)
would be the most likely suspects, along with the state GOP. Both groups need Maes to fail more than anyone else.
he is already in a big enough hole, it would be rediculous and not even logical to do these types of phone calls.
A robocall run costs money, there aren’t all that many firms capable of doing them, and in the world of caller ID I would think it would be relatively easy to figure out which one is doing it. Determine the firm and bank records and business records should make it clear who was paying for it.
My guess would be a conservative 527 with a director gone rogue and acting without donor involvement, or an individual wealthy Republican, who is trying to throw the contest to McInnis so that he can resign and be replaced by someone else.
The person directing the robocall probably thinks he is acting for the good of the party, realizes that once the primary is over that the results will probably stand even if it is unfair if none of the candidates’ organizations are at fault, and is willing to take the fall if need be for what he sees as the good of the state.
The person responsible is also probably right that the primary results will stand even if it is a close race and the robocall does tip the race to McInnis is no particular candidate’s organization can be fingered.
since he seems to know so much about who it “could be”. ;]
Ohwilleke is one of the straightest shooters here on Pols.
If you have something, post it.
Otherwise, go fuck yourself along with the rest of your “kill the messenger” friends.
Although I am a bit sore about the WashParkPoet handle, (I have defunct blog by that name as I explain in my Colorado Pols bio) although not that sore, I have greater worries in life.
At any rate, there is no way in hell that I could ever afford to spend money on robocalls out of my beer money in a race where my guy (Hick) is already a sure thing to win.
I was thinking along similar (though vaguer) lines. It’s too easy to trace for it to be any of the high-profile players, unless one of them is even stupider than most of us have yet imagined (or enough smarter to be able to pull this off and get away with it).
I thought it was “Washington Park Prophet.”
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nobody’s suggested the first party that popped into my mind, John Hickenloop. er.
Who has more to gain by this dastardly subterfuge ? Desperate folks, etc., etc.
Maes had him on the ropes until this surfaced.
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It’s someone who wants Scooter to win the primary.
if Scooter wind and drops out for a vacancy committee selection, as has been widely speculated will happen, then he has the least to lose. He can afford any fine, his public career is already over, and all he has to do is win the primary. J’accuse!
if Scooter wind and drops out for a vacancy committee selection, as has been widely speculated will happen, then he has the least to lose. He can afford any fine, his public career is already over, and all he has to do is win the primary. J’accuse!
Ya, this is just like the Joe G. calls before the State Assembly.
If I think this is kind of hilarious?
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but that secret is safe with us.
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After all, he’s the biggest threat to liberty nowadays.
Or at least been able to get a transcript. Most robocalls tend to end up on answering machines. The fact that none of these actual calls have surfaced makes me a bit suspicious.
from the Complete Colorado guy I believe.
According to AG Suthers, Maes really did file a complaint about this. Given the resources of the AG’s office and one or two recipients of the call, the phone company should be able to provide records of who placed the call.
This isn’t something a sane person would complain about to the authorities if they didn’t think it would be verified by an investigation.
I must simply be too jaded, but I don’t see McInnis or Tancredo doing something like this. It has far too much potential to blow up in their faces to even go there. I have yet to hear from anyone who happened to receive one of these calls, haven’t heard a tape of it, or even read a transcript. This sounds to me like something that a campaign supporter calls up to HQ with, saying that they can’t believed they received a call like this, the campaign believes it because it plays their “everyone in the Party is against us” narrative. It also comes on the heels of Tancredo/Wadhams cagematch.
Nothing more than a gut hunch developed from being involved in enough campaigns, but in the end, I am thinking this turns out to be an unsubstantiated accusation that it good for one or two news cycles. Then again… I was highly skeptical when I heard reports of Joe G’s “Dan Maes can’t win” robocalls, until I actually received one.
So Dan MAY records a robo-call, and in it he makes clear that HE is NOT running for governor (so no one will mistake him for Dan MAES), and then of course it gets listened to in a hurry and misinterpreted that Dan MAES is no LONGER running for governor, and…
Hoo boy.
Here’s a link to the GJ Daily Sentinel story:
May’s guv robocall causes complaints
Fun times in the GOP!
“This is District Attorney Dan May” part, unless Dan Maes has been telling his voters that he is also a top-notch DA on top of being a master turnaround executive.
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When it dawned on me that the McInnis campaign was behind this, and that they had a guy with almost the same name say he was not running, I thought it was a pretty low down tactic — but I did chuckle.
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