What Indeed, Shawn Mitchell?

Nancy Spence too tough for Shawn?

Shawn Mitchell gets his feelings hurt by a 72 year old grandmother and responds by leaving a snippy note? Passive aggressive much?

What a total wanker. The fact that he's considered a credible voice for the state GOP just goes to demonstrate how terribly short on intellect and charisma the state GOP is. The soft bigotry of low expectations have been a boon to Mitchell's career.  

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by: Steve Balboni @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 16:43:38 PM CST

Shut Up They Explained

Uh...I voted for the bill. Needed some additional info which another member gave me. We've had school lunch programs for generations. For a bill to expand elligibility, it's a reasonable question who we've discovered in 2009 that wasn't covered before. "If school children are hungry, it's unconscionable to vote against this bill." doesn't really answer the question.

Or, Steve, does it just take intoning the word "children" and you go all zombie and push the "yes" button?

BTW, your soft bigotry and low expectations of 72-yr old grandmothers are showing. Nancy Spence could kick both our @$$es.

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by: rockclimber @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 18:49:12 PM CST

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So, why your nasty note to Spence?

...were you just explaining the reasonableness of your question to her?

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by: Jambalaya @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 18:53:06 PM CST

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Yep

...and the unhelpfulness of her answer. When you ask a genuine substantive question, it would help the atmosphere if the response isn't to be implicitly accused of starving children, especially by a friend and caucus mate.

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by: rockclimber @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 19:07:51 PM CST

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and did you perceive your question "what are dems for?" to be helpful to her?

...to be helpful to anyone?

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by: Jambalaya @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 19:11:10 PM CST

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Sounded like

a pretty explicit accusation to me.  

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by: RedGreen @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 19:12:07 PM CST

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For all of your answers so far

You haven't really answered the question.

Why do you want preschool kids to starve?

Anything less than a full and complete answer to that question is bullshit.

When I use lots of words, they always form an analysis (and, while producing high volume, also produce high information-density).
--Steve Harvey, 2009

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by: Ralphie @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 19:39:09 PM CST

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Unfair

I think it's fair to ask Shawn about the note. But I also think it was fair for him to ask what it was for and ask for details. And I think it's wrong to say he hates children because he asked for details

Where you gonna go for business reporting software?

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by: DavidThi808 @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 19:47:15 PM CST

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You do

I don't.

Let him answer the question.

When I use lots of words, they always form an analysis (and, while producing high volume, also produce high information-density).
--Steve Harvey, 2009

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by: Ralphie @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 19:53:46 PM CST

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Tacky thing to do

It was in poor taste to leave that note. End of story.

While we're at it.

Shawn Mitchell likes to have the last word on most debates. Even if it's for no other reason than to hear the sound of his own voice.

The man is really slimey and so unpleasant.  

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by: On your Mark...... @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 20:12:26 PM CST

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good to hear from you Senator

Glad to see you respond.

You two are both Colorado Senators, presumably you could show her some respect by speaking to her like a colleague and not leaving a note as though she was some child misbehaving at school.

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by: Steve Balboni @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 19:46:49 PM CST

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Now now, Senator...

Nobody thinks you really want children to starve. Kids are nice, you like kids. You like to feed kids.

It's just a good thing in general for Republicans that numbers don't much resemble children, because if you perceived the relationship between the two at times when it's not harshly pointed out to you you'd have a very different voting record.

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by: JeffcoBlue @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 20:01:53 PM CST

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Minority cracking up

As Twitty pointed out, the Senate Minority Office releases are a constant litany of defeat and humiliation suffered at the hands of the ruling Democrats. And the SMO reaches deep into Joe's thesaurus to find different ways to say Republicans are furious, outraged, incensed, etc.

It sounds like they're adopting an angry-white-Limbaugh posture and can't uncoil from it even when it's one of their own asking questions.

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by: RedGreen @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 16:55:55 PM CST

It's sad/funny

They have to know how stupid it looks. I mean, every day on that sham of a website they have, there's Brophy with his hand on his chin looking like he just got run over by a Mack truck. Harvey looking defeated. Schultheis looking sadd yet still sinister.  My wife thinks I'm a nut for wasting my time looking at their sham of a website. I mean, shit. These idealogues are the face and soul of the Republican Party. Penry can pretend to be Mr. Statesman but this is the bunch of right wing nutjobs he has to lead. Good luck with that.

At least in the House, Mike May had the good sense to see that Balmer would hurt them. It's sad when Mike May looks like a moderate next to the guys Penry has in his chamber.

Not that I think Penry is a boy scout. Hardly.

 

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by: On your Mark...... @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 23:48:32 PM CST

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All you Dems..

So concerned for the R's.

It's so sweet.


"Kevin and I will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"  

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by: Laughing Boy @ Tue Feb 10, 2009 at 01:29:05 AM CST

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It's a little like watching a train wreck . . .

the fascination keeps you looking.

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by: The realist @ Tue Feb 10, 2009 at 09:10:07 AM CST

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Party Line

I think this shows a difference in mentality overall between Democrats and Republicans. You can see it quite often at both Federal and state levels.

Democrats tend to vote based on their feelings and convictions about a particular issue, causing them to cross party lines relatively often. Republicans don't tend to do so quite so often. You can even see it on the stimulus package passing the House. All of the R's voted in opposition while 18 D's broke party line and voted "No."

This little love letter from Senator Mitchell shows the typical intolerance within the Republican party at voting your conscience rather than along an ideological set of principles that is more important than feeding starving children.

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by: bhusher @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 16:58:17 PM CST

your right on

Our D's here in Colorado also often times vote their conscience which may at times be at odds with some of their party. A good example was the 4 democratic senators that voted with R's on an amendment that did not allow tolling on existing highways on the Senate FASTER transportation Bill ( I believe 2 of those Senators may have conceded later and the tolling portion was included on the Senate Bill)

This is my position on the Senate "FASTER" Transportation Bill:

I agree we need to fund important transportation projects such as building out the entire RTD FasTracks passenger rail system including the North Metro and Northwest Metro Lines, replacement of deteriated congested bottlenecks like the 84th ave./I-25 interchange/bridge. And I applaud both the Governor and the state legislature in their willingness to pass a bill that helps fund these important projects that will also stimulate the economy by bringing jobs and will be projects that will be a longtime benefit to citizens. However, the legislature should limit car registration fee increases. During this difficult recession our families cannot afford huge increases. A $10 or $20 increase would be acceptable but $30 and 40$ increases is asking too much from our families who are struggling. Tolling is also a sticky issue. I believe it would be wrong to toll I-25, I-76 or 36. However, tolling Pena Blvd. and using those new revenues to help pay for the complete RTD buildout and the fixing of our bridges, interchanges and roads would be accetable to the majority of Coloradoans. However, the bill should specifically state tolling on Pena Blvd. only or you will not only have legislators not liking the bill but the public will be outraged. Also, the priority projects should be interchanges experiencing the most congestion like 84th/I-25, RTD FasTracks complete buildout and other projects like the bridge at 104th/85 heading towards DIA that needs widened ect.......

Gov. and state legislators please consider this.

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by: Thorntondem @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 18:05:07 PM CST

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It is too bad

Had the Democrats not nominated a misogynist with a slew of restraining orders to his name Shawn Mitchell would no longer be in the Senate.  

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by: hula hoopsters @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 18:11:48 PM CST

true! cuz Mitchell had never been elected before then

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by: Jambalaya @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 18:14:58 PM CST

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Welcome aboard Hula

Whether or not I agree with you, your credibility might increase with time.

When I use lots of words, they always form an analysis (and, while producing high volume, also produce high information-density).
--Steve Harvey, 2009

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by: Ralphie @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 20:25:33 PM CST

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that seat is pretty safe R with an incumbent

too much of Weld County in that Senate district for a D to win until there is an open seat. D has to win the Adams County portion big in order to win that seat.  

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by: Thorntondem @ Mon Feb 09, 2009 at 20:59:54 PM CST