The HD-56 Soap Opera

Oooo, my first diary and my first promotion to the front page...

I'm honored. And since no one else will comment, I figure I will. I don't care if it's faux pas.

Hasan makes other young citizens that want to run for office look bad... oh yeah and Republicans too. I bet Mike May is regretting his decision to back him. In fact, I don't know why he would have done it in the first place. It was obvious from the beginning that Hasan was... well... not a wise choice.

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by: chris82 @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 20:19:28 PM UTC

Congrats Chris82!

I don't think it's poor form to comment on your own thread...

I think Republicans need to find another candidate.  

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by: Haners @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 20:29:40 PM UTC

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No, no - keep him

He's great entertainment for this election. We need one clown every election just for comic relief.

Where all the cool kids will be on Saturday - Code War!

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by: DavidThi808 @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 20:31:37 PM UTC

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Yeah, I agree...

It is good fun. Haners, do you think they're already looking for someone else or are they going to try and play it out?

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by: chris82 @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 20:36:57 PM UTC

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I doubt they'll look for someone else

They'll probably ride out the storm...unless they catch him with a trunk full of dead hookers or something.

Seriously, Hasan seemed like a nice guy, but it kind of looks like he has issues.  He should probably sort that out before he tried to help run the state.

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by: Haners @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 20:43:55 PM UTC

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What!

Doug Bruce doesn't qualify?

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by: cologeek @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 20:40:30 PM UTC

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Why have one, when you can have two?

n/t

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by: chris82 @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 20:41:48 PM UTC

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Doug Bruce

Is enough entertainment for one cycle...

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by: Haners @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 20:44:48 PM UTC

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Thanks Haners!

I meant more as being the first comment on my thread, but maybe that's what you meant too.

Oh yeah, I guess I should also thank ColoradoPols, huh? Thanks ColoradoPols. And thank you to my mom and dad, my sister, my agent...

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by: chris82 @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 20:35:34 PM UTC

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Yeah that's what meant! :) (n/t)

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by: Haners @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 20:46:36 PM UTC

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Doesn't God usually come first on the thanks list? :)

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by: shrubsrock @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 21:04:17 PM UTC

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I knew is was forgetting some one? thing? uh, supreme being?

n/t

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by: chris82 @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 21:53:42 PM UTC

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they needed to get Hasan out of challenging Al White for Jack Taylor's state Senate seat

....and since they also needed a sacrificial lamb.....I mean, a candidate, to run against then state Rep Dan Gibbs, the Wad Man and Mike May blew some smoke up towards Hasan, stroked his ego, and persuaded him to change races.  (Not unlike what Wad Man did with Wayne Wolf who wanted to run against Shifty for the U.S. Senate.)
  I don't think that the GOP House campaign committee did much vetting before they "recruited" Hasan to run in HD-56.
 

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by: One Queer Dude @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 20:36:48 PM UTC

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Yeah, it seems like they were just trying to get him out of the way

and weren't planning on helping him out much. But it still make May and Wadhams look bad because they officially threw their support behind him. In the original Westword article, May said that it was his job to seek at good republican candidates for House seats and that he thought Hasan was the right guy for HD-56. Sounds like the Republicans may need someone new to look for good candidates.  

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by: chris82 @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 20:41:00 PM UTC

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I think they had to support him

His parents are a major source of Republican money. If they told them their spoiled child could not have something the money could have been shut off.

Where all the cool kids will be on Saturday - Code War!

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by: DavidThi808 @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 22:41:32 PM UTC

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Ah yes.

How could I have been so foolish as to not think of this? Thanks David.

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by: chris82 @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 23:02:52 PM UTC

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I don't see it as a faux pas,

and even less so if it's for your reason. I just have noticed that at least one frequent (or fomerly so, sice he's been quiet lately) diarist often did that, probably to draw attention to his posts.

That said, this is hilarious. Miller is now Hasan's ex and filed a restraining order request? She was defending him here on this blog right after that Westword story hit the streets.

"Thank you for putting your rank political motives on display." - ArapaGOP

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by: Aristotle @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 21:11:18 PM UTC

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WTF

Hasan, the scion of one of the state's biggest Republican fundraisers, countered by hiring the same high-priced law firm that defended basketball star Kobe Bryant in a sex-assault case.

He went out and hired Kobe Bryant's attorney. He just a made a name for himself in the mountain towns with that move. No one will trust this him.

This little spoiled rich kid from Vail has no place in our state capitol. If he can't control himself in his own city, I'd hate to think of what would happen when this "womanizer" is around the College interns at the during session.  

"Suddenly, it may be cool to be American again" - William J. Kole

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by: Go Blue @ Thu Mar 27, 2008 at 22:42:35 PM UTC