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January 27, 2011 07:56 PM UTC
50 Comments
if you want to describe Gessler’s house as something like a “4,000 square foot, two-story brick colonial in posh Capitol Hill” — that’s one thing; posting pictures of elected official’s private residences is quite another.
I think you’ve crossed a boundary and should remove the photo ASAP.
I’m sure we could look it up in the state filing forms, but there’s no need to post the picture.
Doesn’t already have pictures of the residence on line?
Doesn’t mean it should be posted. These are the same people who will ban anyone who “outs” someone named his name with his birth year behind it.
This is publicly available and we did not disclose his address, but we’ve removed the photo.
I disagree with that, but it’s obviously your call.
Look at intent: a picture tells a thousand words. This picture is not about anything other than pointing out the disconnect between the words and reality of an @ssclown who’s digging himself deeper with his own statements.
Look at content: It doesn’t provide any information to any disaffected crazy who wanted to invade SO[B] Gessler’s privacy or worse. I won’t support the publishing of addresses, phone numbers and license plate numbers or other personally identifying information. I also supported the publication of pictures of the Darth Cheney’s undisclosed locations, so keep that in mind that I might not be a good judge of these things, I just have my opinions, and choose to live by them.
Virtue in action, indeed.
and even devoted cynics such as I have trouble remaining true to our cynicism.
Imperfection is such a burden. As punishment, I resolve to spend some time this evening brushing up on a couple of my remaining vices. ;~)
…depending on your vices!
Perhaps also depending on you spell.
yeah, more like a $700,000 Cheesman Park prop bordering the Botanical Gardens … bought about 6 yrs. ago.
Not exactly slumming …
It did mention “a number of properties”.
Go to Denver Assessor link:
http://www.denvergov.org/realp…
Search by name.
Using my secret Realtor powers.
…if you write about them publicly.
But they must be powerful to extend all the way to Broomfield!
Since I live in Westminster.
cutting government spending. I guess that’s only for the peons who work in government offices. And of course he still doesn’t get it.
A Denver paper ran an editorial that said that, while Gessler claims he mentioned his desire to moonlight with his old firm during the election, he didn’t mention it to their editorial board or on his website and there isn’t any record of his mentioning it at public events. Tends to show he didn’t mention it before the election because he knew it wouldn’t go over well. Tends to support questions about his general trustworthiness in an office that demands the highest level of public trust.
The other moonlighters mentioned were the R AG and the R Treasurer. Now let’s all shed a tear for poor Gessler whose wife might have to get a job if he doesn’t take another, better paying (per hour) job as a lawyer with an election-law firm. You know, the high paying job he could have kept if he didn’t think SOS was going to work for him financially and which is entirely inappropriate for the guy in charge of elections.
Are we supposed to sympathize with him when he laments the possibility of his wife having to go get a job? Did he and his wife not discuss this when he decided to run for the elected office? Welcome to public service, Scott…
out of work wives (like me) who would be thrilled to get a job and over the moon if it paid 68K.
I’da voted for you.
I’m not cut out to be a pol.
He needs that extra pay to afford the house you shouldn’t have posted a picture of.
If a successful attorney can end up with a crap job and doesn’t having savings to keep the diggs, it really can happen to anyone.
Truly, a sad day in America. Or maybe because voters no longer think a basic sense of integrity is needed for elected office. One of these things makes it a sad day.
it’s a sad day in America, regardless.
And Scott Gessler is the reason we are all sad…
Was the salary a surprise? C’mon. He had to know what the job paid when he signed up to run. Deal with it. As a state employee (CSU) who hasn’t had a raise in 4 years I’m a little pissed at the elected officials making a big deal about the lack of salary increases for elected officials.
This SO[B] either can’t or won’t uphold the integrity and dignity of the office. He doesn’t server Colorado, only himself!
In fact it will be very hard to get a recall off the ground, much less for it to succeed. It would be fun trying and the more we keep Gessler in the news with negative stories the better chance we have of throwing the bum out at the next opportunity, be that a lucky break on recall or next election. Also, keeping him under pressure and in the spotlight for sleaziness will make it harder for him to get away with anything in 2012.
And I’m still waiting to hear the usual (nothing to see here, just picking on the R again) from the usual righties.
Normally, one mis-step usually teaches a politician a lesson, and they start walking more gingerly through the minefield that is politics.
Maybe you’re right and this isn’t the right time. Only(!) 5000 signatures were raised by ProgressNow Colorado’s e-mail and web campaign petition to resign.
But, that SO[B] just keeps digging himself deeper and deeper, maybe just providing the news stories that fuel the lucky breaks you’re talking about!
to come to Gessler’s defense. Crickets.
Chirp.
Although when Romero took a pay cut to keep working at his old dev company, the paper of record’s comments were filled with the kind of Teabagging glee usually reserved for actual, you know, gloating and not, you know, false equivalences!
how many months of the campaign, seeking this office and the salary that comes with it?
And not two weeks after he’s sworn in, he’s saying the money isn’t enough and he needs to do some REALLY questionable things to make enough to survive?
Ridiculous. Completely ridiculous.
How’s the effort to get a recall going?
59… 58… 57…
Clock’s ticking.
Has someone filed an intent to recall? Is there a link?
obvious ethical lapse. Then he could only do one job.
…conclusion!
As I really wondered why someone who didn’t file necessary paperwork, and represented clients who didn’t file either, should be the elected State official to keep track of filing!
If you look at how other states pay their SOS, Colorado is the 45th lowest.
Where have I seen that number before??
Oh, that’s right, we are 45th in terms of taxes.
And since he believes our tax rates are too high, shouldn’t he be fighting for less pay??
How do Republicans expect to get elected to run anything in ’12? Granted in some places Freddy Kruger[R] will win. But in any competitive seat?
how do you start a recall petition?
1-12-101 through 1-12-123
but we really could use a “30-day return policy” — why is my toaster oven more reliable than our elected officials?
1. Whine about your salary within weeks of getting elected.
2. Claim you disclosed your intent to work part-time for your old law firm before the election – then fail to back it up.
3. Totally screw up your own party’s argument that public officials and employees are overpaid and that taxes should be cut.
4. Make your party look like absolute blithering Scrooges for wanting to cut breakfasts for kids at the same time that you want a higher salary.
5. Insinuate that you’re stuck driving a 14-year-old Honda when in fact you drive a Lexus SUV – and that Honda is your second (third? fourth? fifth?) car.
6. At the same time, refuse to give a penny of your department’s $3.5 million semi-surplus (at least, you’re having a hard time explaining what you’re planning on doing with it) to help the state as a whole meet its budget gap.
7. Instead of taking a job teaching (a la Suthers) or in some other law firm with no obvious conflict of interest, go back to your OWN FIRM that practices ELECTION LAW. The most blatant conflict of interest ever.
8. Basically come across in each and every public pronouncement of yours as the most self-absorbed, self-interested a-hole there ever was.
The Colorado Republican Party should shun this loser as fast as possible. If this is what he’s accomplished a mere couple of weeks into office, the next couple of years should be a total P.R. disaster.
Can the legislature de-fund the Sec. of State’s office by exactly $3.5 million dollars to return the favor in kind to Gessler?
The question is, will they?
I guess “no.”
I actually agree that state officials (especially including legislators) are underpaid in comparison to private sector positions, and this might be a disincentive.
But at the same time, how the hell does Scott Gessler think he can get away with claiming that his $68,500 salary leaves him in financial hardship? Does he not realize that this is WAY above the median income for entire households in Colorado, and OVER TWICE the median adult individual income… in other words, the only reason median household income is so high is that OTHER PEOPLE’S WIVES GO GET JOBS!
Frankly, this looks incredibly out of touch… it’s similar to reading those editorials by CEOs claiming that Obama’s income limits attached to bailouts weren’t feasible because they had to keep up their nightly galas for the neighbors.
one where the unemployment numbers are merely figures to cite that sound good for a stump speech, and not numbers that represent real people who would kill for a job that pays $38,000 a year, let a lone $68,000.
To paraphrase Ken Buck, I think Colorado is feeling more and more buyer’s remorse every time Gessler opens his mouth.
Remember how astounded he was when he went to a supermarket that had a scanner? I think that was one reason he was a one-term president; people just wouldn’t vote for a guy was so removed from their reality that he apparently hadn’t been to a store in the however-many years since scanning started.
Maybe that anecdote fit the story that Bush was out of touch with the country’s economy, but it’s still an overblown myth.