Stay Classy, Jon Caldara (Die in a Fire Edition)

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by: Colorado Pols

Early Wednesday afternoon, a large fire broke out at an apartment construction site in the Uptown neighborhood of Denver. It’s unknown as of yet how the fire started, but it quickly exploded into a three-alarm blaze that forced the evacuation of neighboring buildings, literally melted nearby parked cars, and resulted in two deaths and numerous injuries, including injuries to responding firefighters.

After the fires were under control, two bodies were pulled from the rubble, believed to be construction workers who were caught in the rapidly-spreading conflagration.

For some reason, Jon Caldara, the head of Colorado’s leading conservative advocacy group the Independence Institute thought Wednesday’s tragedy would be appropriate to use in a lame joke about climate change. It’s not the first time Caldara has crassly used local disasters as political punchlines, like back in 2013 when he faked an excuse about the deadly floods in September of that year to help him beat a charge of election fraud.

But once again we’re compelled to ask–who does this? And why does the entire press and political establishment in Colorado take someone who does this seriously? And don’t tell us you don’t. Caldara gets earned media on a regular basis, and local luminaries line up to appear on his mostly-unwatched cable access show.

We all deserve better, not least the conservatives for whom this asshole purports to speak.

10 thoughts on “Stay Classy, Jon Caldara (Die in a Fire Edition)”

JeffcoBlue says:

March 9, 2018 at 10:47 am

Colorado's #1 douchebag Republican outside the Senate.

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1. RepealAndReplace says:
  
  March 9, 2018 at 12:07 pm
  
  I don't know if you could say that. What about Doug Bruce? What about Dudley Brown? Closer to home, what about Andrew Carnegie or Moderatus?
  
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MichaelBowman says:

March 9, 2018 at 11:16 am

Oh, I don't know, equal to a nanosecond of the fugitive methane emissions in his/our backyard?!?!?!

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1. MichaelBowman says:
  
  March 9, 2018 at 11:27 am
  
  Or as V might call it, one big fart!
  
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JohnInDenver says:

March 9, 2018 at 11:29 am

Wonder how the tweet would be different if Roberto Flores-Prieto, one construction worker who authorities said had been missing and then was found dead, had been someone Caldara cared about. Or if he knew the tweet would be seen by the others injured or their family members.

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1. RepealAndReplace says:
  
  March 9, 2018 at 12:08 pm
  
  You mean if Flores-Prieto had a Norwegian name instead?
  
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  1. Voyageur says:
    
    March 9, 2018 at 1:39 pm
    
    You mean like this:
    
    p>The death of Lars Lutefisk Fjord was a tragedy that saddens all Coloradans, indeed, all Americans.
    
    We at the Independence Institute are stopping our bitcoin counterfeiting operation for 30 minutes in honor of him.
    
    Please send your contribution to the Lars Lutefisk Fjord Fund in care of Jon Caldera, 408 Whackjob Rd., Boulder CO.
    
    The money will be used to buy an AR-15 for a mentally disturbed loner who lives near a school cuz, you know, Second Amendment…
    
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    1. RepealAndReplace says:
      
      March 9, 2018 at 3:08 pm
      
      Precisely…….thoughts and prayers for Lars
      
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Diogenesdemar says:

March 9, 2018 at 4:28 pm

Maybe Caldara could get some of his II/RMGO buds together and do one of their rolling-coal salutes at the internments??

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mamajama55 says:

March 9, 2018 at 4:47 pm

Caldara also joked about sexual harassment as a job perk.

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