We’ve been talking about gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry’s problems recently with some of his central campaign themes being the subject of deconstructive media scrutiny. It’s worth pointing out that although we are the ones taking heat for zeroing in on some of the wider gaps between Penry’s rhetoric and the factual record, particularly with regard to this business about the state’s recent “hiring spree,” the actual assemblage of those facts has been carried out by the Denver Post, Grand Junction Sentinel, and other newspapers of record. You can’t really blame us.
But you would think that at some point, once the deconstruction had reached a certain inarguable level, that Penry would find new things to talk about. After all, it’s really no good to keep using talking points that get you laughed at. Reporters just start looking at you cock-eyed, and down you spiral. You’d think so, but as Fox31 reported uncritically last night:
“There just may have to be layoffs, is the unfortunate reality,” said Sen. Josh Penry, R-Fruita, who is one of three Republicans vying to challenge Ritter’s reelection next year. “Government has grown so expansively in the last few years — with literally thousands of new jobs. If we’re going to fund roads, schools, this may not be the end of it.”
Who wants to go first? We’re a little mystified–here we thought these canards had been factually bombarded into surrender by the state’s flagship media outlets, and then there’s Josh Penry sneering them at us on Fox last night. What gives, people?
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Gubernatorial candidateSenate Minority Leader Penry on selling off state assets, eliminating DOLA, halting energy planning, and otherwise attacking his (hoped for) opponent courtesy of the Colorado taxpayer:Great leadership! Sen. Penry publishes a top ten list of questions. Well here are a couple of my own to Sen. Penry (with an added bonus: Answers!).
A) Sen. Josh Penry, when are you going to start offering up some answers?
B) Or is that too hard?
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Answers:
A) Not until after Ritter has implemented solutions and then I’ll say something else would have been better.
B) Yes.
Sen. Penry–how much is you campaigning from a taxpayer funded office costing Colorado taxpayers? Will you consider dissolving the
Penry taxpayer funded campaign headquartersSenate Minority Office to save money and remove the stench of questionable activity from the Capitol?is advocating for a pay cut for his sister? Or maybe eliminating her job.
Penry was on the Capital Development Committee.
“kick the can down the road….”
Has anyone looked at the original release to see if the first letters of each line spell anything out?
It spells out Wgror Ibcosy Trlbte Tfs. Wonder what it means?
He continues to make false assertions that are factually incorrect (4,000 new state employees hired by the Governor) and, worst of all, that he knows because of his experience in the legislature are facially false. As the Denver Post editorial stated last week, he needs to get his facts straight if he wants to have any credibility. I’ve never seen a major party candidate so flippant about misrepresenting or intentionally lying about easily ascertainable facts.
He has become odd and absurd because he continues to campaign against his credibility.
Penry really does not care. Fact, fiction or whatever just flew out of his ass — all the same to him.
of Alaska.
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/…
But how did he put all that shale gas underground and closer to markets? He sure is a tricky one, that Bill Ritter is.
1. Why do you refuse to provide your own plan for Colorado’s economic recovery?
2. Why do you associate yourself with bigots like your former campaign manager, Janet “Bestiality” Rowland, Dave Schultheis, Dave Renfroe and racist Mesa County Republicans?
3. What do you believe are the reasons behind your Conservative hometown newspaper concluding that your Democratic opponent would be the better choice, instead of you, to represent our community?
4. What do you believe are the reasons behind your Conservative hometown Republican assembly choosing your opponent, instead of you, at their convention?
5. What were the inappropriate things you did to piss off respected former DS publisher, George Orbanek?
6. Why does Orbanek write that if voters knew what Orbanek knew about you, that everyone would think twice about ever considering you for public office?
7. Why did you blatantly lie to me when I asked you an honest and perfectly legitimate question at your trash America festivities?
8. Do you believe that “supplements” taken during your football school days could be a factor in difficulties controlling your temper?
9. After all Scott McInnis did for you, why is it you feel you need to stab him in the back now?
10. Will you change course and provide any kind of leadership this coming legislative session or will it be just another “Sine Die” year for R’s?
11. Did the out-of-state hydrocarbon companies who wrote $100,000 checks to back your failed A52 ask for their money back?
12. Why do you waste taxpayer dollars with your purely Kabuki theater failed filibusters?
13. Why do you make pledges in front of an audience if you do not intend to keep them?
14. What are you doing to end the racism and bigotry and hate Mesa County is becoming known for?
15. Did Tim Foster’s master plan for you include hiring your family members and failed R operatives like John Marshall at Mesa State?
16. Why is it you want our school children to be taught that the earth is only 6000 years old?
Feel free to post your reply here. I’d even accept a reply from, what is it your fellow Republicans call them? Penry’s lemmings?
a fact if it bit him. And that’s the truth.
He is off in some kind of fantasy land.