From the desk of Dick Wadhams: Josh Penry is the bomb.

Pretty funny satire

What the hell was with that article? The worst was the "stats" thing at the end.

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by: redstateblues @ Mon Feb 23, 2009 at 18:58:08 PM UTC

Thanks

I wasn't sure about the Reagan cologne, but nothing else was coming to mind.  

Drinking Liberally in a SquareState

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by: johne @ Mon Feb 23, 2009 at 19:44:50 PM UTC

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hey thanks for the FP n/t

Drinking Liberally in a SquareState

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by: johne @ Mon Feb 23, 2009 at 21:16:27 PM UTC

Mesa State has a football team?

...wait, Mesa State has academics?  Too cute!

I'm not as sweet as I used to be.

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by: Jambalaya @ Mon Feb 23, 2009 at 23:58:28 PM UTC

A Division II Political Talent

Background: star quarterback at Mesa State College, as well as student body president. He had a 4.0 grade-point average.

Yeah, if he did that at CU I'd be impressed...Mesa State, not so much, at least not on the latter two. I mean, even being a DII QB is impressive as an athletic accomplishment, though I don't know what relevance that would have to being a political leader.

What is Penry's non-political career? Maybe that is more impressive?

"One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up." - C.S. Lewis

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by: Bondo @ Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 00:13:33 AM UTC

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What is Penry's non-political career?

There is none. Politics is all he knows. So by the Andrew Romanoff Rule, we'd better find him a job!

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by: RedGreen @ Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 00:17:40 AM UTC

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They also apparently

have a student government.

Josh Penry: Master of the Small Pond, and don't you forget it.

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by: RedGreen @ Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 00:15:26 AM UTC

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Sickeningly sweet

I wonder how big the hickey is that the Post left on Penry's ass with this article. Penry is a disaster, but Dems better not take him lightly. He's walking a similar path to the governor's office that Bill Owens did. He's building rank-and-file support among the grassroots GOP groups on the eastern slope. Ritter is on course to be a one-term governor, and if Penry wins the GOP nomination, he easily could be the guv in a couple of years. God forbid.

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by: OneEyedOwl @ Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 00:11:38 AM UTC

He'd be a great Governor

If he only knew how to govern.

But he doesn't.  He's a professional heel-nipper, having been in the minority party since the day he was elected.  He doesn't know shit except for whining.

And he's a walking poster boy for why his party is in the minority.

Today, you're either going to get better or you're going to get worse, but you're never going to be the same.  Which one will it be?  --Joseph V. Paterno

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by: Ralphie @ Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 01:52:58 AM UTC

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We can only hope

that Colorado voters can see through him. He can act in a very charming manner when he needs someone's help and support. Perhaps the Republicans will have the good sense to stop him in the nomination process.

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by: OneEyedOwl @ Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 21:08:59 PM UTC

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The adulation of so many wingnuts

It is Sooo amusing to hear some of the same people who castigate Obama supporters with accusations of idolatry, take off on their fair-haired boy, Prince Josh, the Ambitious.

We know Josh well over here on the western slope and I think this latest public orgasm over Penry is in response to a comment I made in the presence of a Wadhams associate. I reported at a discussion group that it seemed Wadhams had decided Penry was not the man for the run against Ritter. They need him in the Senate, I was told.
The person in question challenged that assertion and said that he "hadn't heard that from Dick".

Right or wrong, is it more than coincidence that this impromptu vote of confidence airs a few days later?

I find it even more amusing that Penrys' buddy Scott McInnis once accused me of being privileged and unable to relate to working people. While I was a blue collar worker for 40 years, his lordship, the Prince of COGA, has never had a real job in his life. Or so I'm told.

"The modern conservative is engaged in one of mans' oldest exercises in moral philosophy, that is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."    John Kenneth Galbraith

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by: dukeco1 @ Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 02:54:55 AM UTC

Sincere question

What does Penry do for a living?  If I am reading the state web page correctly, the state senator gig pays $30,000.  I assume most senators (especially young ones with kids) have other jobs to support themselves.  Does anyone know what else Penry does?  

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by: Early Worm @ Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 02:56:09 AM UTC

Family income

His wife is employed at Mesa State, the domain of former Rep. Tim Foster. Her job may be part-time. I don't know.

By the way, Penry's sister recently started working at Mesa State.

Put the family on the government payroll. Then go to war against government spending.

Sometimes, I guess, you have to let the inner bitch out.

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by: gertie97 @ Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 03:30:25 AM UTC

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He was the quarterback

That comes with certain privileges.

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by: RedGreen @ Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 04:52:37 AM UTC

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some dirt will be coming soon

on Rep. Foster.
i am on it.

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by: wade norris @ Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 06:11:22 AM UTC

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Soon? Or soon?

Hey Wade, how soon do you think you'll be coming out with this "dirt?"

Things are getting out of control in Mesa County and at Mesa State College.

For example, last week there was an announcement in the GJ Daily Sentinel that MSC was considering cutting programs. The very next day was another report in the Sentinel about the establishment of three new athletic teams at the college.

Help!

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." --ChuckieD, 1871

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by: ardy39 @ Mon Mar 02, 2009 at 05:13:05 AM UTC

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With a 4.0 at Mesa State

He should have no problem landing a sweet second job.

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by: mattm @ Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 23:46:01 PM UTC

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Sugar daddies.

If you are a young Republican in Mesa County it's not much trouble to find a sugar daddy. Penry found his in Tim Foster (to keep his family employed) and in Jamie Hamilton, CEO of Home Loan and Athletic Director at Mesa State College.

It's hard to live at the public trough. Maybe not.

"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge." --ChuckieD, 1871

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by: ardy39 @ Tue Feb 24, 2009 at 04:59:34 AM UTC

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