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October 22, 2009 09:41 PM UTC

New Group Goes To Bat For Ritter

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  • by: Colorado Pols

You’ve probably seen this ad already, started yesterday with pretty good circulation:

“Colorado’s On The Move” is reportedly a 501(c)4 organization, so enjoy the guessing game on who’s paying for this, but the ad plays up one of Gov. Bill Ritter’s to-the-bank issues (The deep-pocketed New Energy Economy™). And we’d actually not realized Forbes rates Colorado the “4th best state for business”–you mean Ritter didn’t drive business out of the state Zimbabwe-style?

It’s also interesting to see an ad being run for a candidate more than a year out from the election. This is the first time we can remember television ads for, really, anybody in Colorado going on the air so far out from Election Day.

Seriously, this ad makes us want to buy stock and hug our kids. It’s morning in Colorado.

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    1. 3:1 job growth in the public over private sector.

      $18 billion in state and local taxes.

      Ask just how many new jobs are green jobs, excluding any union boss tricks such as “reclassifications”

      1. Every fraction has a numerator and a denominator.

        If public jobs are growing over private, that’s a bad thing.  It means that the private sector isn’t doing well.  Most of that problem is due to the fact that banks are using stimulus money to trade in the markets instead of loaning private businesses money.  Sometimes private businesses need to borrow money to do what they need to do to succeed.

        I know that because the most recent company I worked for wanted to expand our business but we couldn’t get a loan.  Our business plan made sense, but it yielded less than doing unproductive shit like trading derivatives.

        If private industry isn’t coming through, and a shortage of capital is the problem, then there are two things to do.  1) Lean on the banks who are getting public money so that they loan to businesses.  2) Create some government jobs until (1) succeeds.

        The administration has done both.

        Now get a clue and go back to momma’s basement.

        1. Thats gross adds, the net ads (or reductions is more like)

          4,000 new state government employees and 187,000 fewer private sector jobs for Colorado citizens.

      1. BAKED CHICKEN STUFFED WITH PESTO AND CHEESE

        6 boneless, skinless chicken breasts (use the biggest ones you can find)

        1 cup purchased pesto

        1 cup packed finely grated white cheese such as mozzarella or Monterey Jack

        1/3 cup low fat sour cream (do not use fat free)

        about 1 cup finely grated parmesan cheese

        1 cup chicken stock or canned chicken broth

        1-2 tsp. Wondra Quick-Mixing Flour (optional)

        Preheat oven to 375. In bowl, combine pesto, grated white cheese and sour cream until well combined. In a flat bowl put the 1 cup grated parmesan. Spray 9X13 casserole dish with nonstick spray. Pound chicken breasts to 1/4 inch thickness, or as thin as you can get it, the thinner the better.

        (If you’re not sure, here’s how to do this: Put each chicken breast inside a piece of saran wrap so it is on both sides of chicken and pound on skin side until chicken is an even thickness, just to the point where the chicken would start to break apart. I have a great mallet that I got at Big Lots for $2.00 that I use for this, but you can pound with anything heavy. Don’t worry if the chicken “shredding” a little on the edges, you can tuck those in. The thinness is more important than the shape.)

        As each piece of chicken is flattened, remove saran wrap, turn chicken over to “ragged side” and spread 1/6 of pesto cheese mixture evenly over that side of chicken (use a rubber scraper to do this). Then roll up each piece end to end, starting with the widest end, rolling as tightly as you can. I found these held together well and did not need a toothpick. Tuck in any loose pieces, and they will stay that way when it cooks. Put each stuffed piece of chicken in the bowl with the parmesan cheese, and press parmesan into the surface of the chicken so it is well coated. Put chicken into casserole dish. (You want to arrange the chicken pieces in a row, with the pieces almost touching on the sides.)

        After all chicken pieces are in casserole pour in enough chicken stock to barely cover the bottom of the dish (less than 1/2 cup) and cover casserole tightly with foil. Bake chicken for 30 minutes, then take out of oven and remove foil (The parmesan will be melty looking, but don’t worry, you are going to brown it.) Increase oven to 425, put chicken back in oven and bake 15-20 minutes more, until the top of chicken is slightly browned. Don’t overcook, but be sure chicken is firm to touch.

        When you take the chicken out of the oven you will have a delicious looking combination of stock, bits of pesto, melted cheese and chicken juice in the bottom of the dish. You can serve this over the chicken just like it is, but I made a sauce like this:

        Skim off as much fat as you can from top of the liquidy mixture, then pour it into small saucepan and add rest of the cup of chicken stock that you did not use. Bring to simmer for 10 minutes or so, until sauce is slightly reduced and cheese is well melted. Mix flour (depending on how much liquid you have but I used nearly 2 tsp.) with small amount of cold water, then wisk it into sauce and cook until sauce thickens slightly. Pour around chicken and serve.

          2. I made it Saturday. I did a couple of different things–I diced up two tomatoes and added them to the pesto stuffing and I rolled the chicken breasts in crushed Corn Flakes and Parmesan cheese.

            To die for.

          1. on this recipe. (I do on quite a few of the ones I make on a regular basis.)

            The pesto and the Jack cheese are the most caloric but they are divided up into 6 breasts. You use chicken broth which is low calorie and low fat sour cream, too.

            However, the cheese and the pesto really send this one up. I did a rough estimate and came between 500 and 600 calories per breast.

            I served this with brown rice, green peas and grape tomatoes and if you want to cut out a bunch of calories you can skip the sauce at the end as well as the brown rice. I skipped making the sauce because the chicken was so incredible on it’s own that the sauce wasn’t really necessary.  

          2. that they have Reduced Fat Pesto at Safeway that would work just fine in this recipe and really cut the calorie count way back, too. A cup of Jack cheese is about 400 calories so figure about 80 per chicken breast.  

                  1. At least that’s what I found. It sort of creates it on it’s own when it’s baking. And with real pesto (that’s what I used) and real sour cream? Oh wow, yours is going to be awesome. What time is dinner, did you say? 🙂

                    2. I worked for a vet for 3 years and at this point, pet care costs are just staggering. I am so glad to hear he is better. That’s awfully good news.  

  3. A good ad.  

    The Forbes ranking is hard for the GOP to beat back AND it really does give some peace of mind to the independent and democrat voter.  I could never really understand the distaste for Ritter in the first place.  He is certainly better than the devil you don’t know and maybe a little better than that.  Did the democratic establishment get their nose out of joint over something he did?

    Anyhoo…

    Added bonus that there is no obvious Ritter staff in the ad acting as “normal” citizens a la Rollie Heath!  One of my favorite political ad quirks to look for- especially in state or local races…

    Anyhoohoo…

  4. I think the best part about the ad is that it talks about how the governor has actually created jobs in this economy.  With all the bickering and hand wringing at the Capitol, results are what matter and managing to bring businesses to Colorado and creating real, good-paying jobs to our state is impressive.  

  6. Here’s what I just wrote up for http://www.9News.com. It’s a 501(c)4 which means it is not required to release its donors. It’s run by Mike Melanson, who most of you may know as the person who ran Udall’s Senate campaign. Its registered agent is Julie Wells who regularly appears as the registered agent of progressive 527s, 501(c)3s and 501(c)4s in Colorado. The group is running its spots 48 times on the networks of 9NEWS at a cost of $68,550. The total Denver market outlay is $163,214. The ad was produced by Great American Media in D.C. Cheers, ajs

    1. Can’t we get a law that says all Political Ads that run in Colorado have to produced in Colorado?

      I can absolutely certify that I can do 10000x better than the anti-Udall “Left! Left! Left!” ad….

      1. I’ve often thought about trying to start a political consulting company after I graduate from college whose main purpose is to produce campaign ads here in Colorado.

        I’m going to school for recording music, but seeing as nobody wants to pay for music anymore, it’s kind of a shrinking industry. Post-production is where it’s at.

  7. the voice guy does seem to do all the dem colorado ads. good gig with the number of ads they’ve produced in recent years. he may be on a beach with a cigar in one hand, an umbrella drink in another, before sneaking into a sound-proof booth just off the cabana. probably charging it to the underhill tab in the process. that was for all the fletch fans out there.

    1. Like the Underhill tab reference.

      Does anyone have the overall job numbers from the start of the Ritter administration to date?

      Is Ritter a net plus or minus on total job?

      Ritter should be cut some slack on jobs due to the recession, but he certainly opens the door for some good comeback ads if his overall job numbers are negative.

  9. The numbers must look even worse than I thought.

    Seriously, 500 points (insignificant in the scheme of things) of positive TV 12 months out? Really guys (and gals)? I’m not sure what it’s meant to accomplish, but this small a buy isn’t going to do much. Especially a positive this far out. And you have to assume that every dollar spent now, even if it’s outside money, is a dollar not spent when people are actually making up their minds.

    Who’s got this much money to (literally) burn?  

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