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It just doesn’t stop at plagiarism folks!
Get ready for the intimidation teams at the CD 5 Assembly.
Oh yeah!
It seems Shari Williams and Chuck Broerman from the Beauprez Campaign are taking time out from Both Ways Bob to help out Crank at the Assembly. They are going to have “Intimidation Teams” roaming the assembly floor, looking over shoulders at how folks are voting and them “encouraging” them to vote for Jeffy. Dusin Olson is so giddy about the plan that he is not paying attention to who he is telling it to. I guess this is the only way they think they can win.
Too funny! Crank isn’t helping himself. It sounds like a desperation from the Crank camp. I’m doubled over laughing at Crank’s ascertion that Cerveny and Fairbank are working with Lamborn to point to his Plagerism. I know, I bet Cervney and Fairbank MADE Crank plagerize. Keep going Crank!!
Dustin is a giddy idiot
Does that mean Dustin Olson he is a gidiot?
Has anyone warned Beauprez to avoid 5th CD Primary battles? There is no good way or an outside (CD 5) candidate to win when he/she tries to pick a side in the 5th. If Draft Dodger Bob gets involved in Crank’s campaign, he might as well hand the entire El Paso Delegation to Holtzman.
I agree with you there Iron Mike! (You always say things that make too much sense). I think BB’s asking for trouble by playing in the 5th. Looks like he’s got his own problems to deal with as it is.
which is funnier, crank’s plagiarizing or what state Mark Hillman is State Treasurer of, according to Crank’s endorsement list. i hate sloppy campaign staff.
Don’t get me wrong, I kinda hope the guy spends the whole time at the 5th CD Assembly walking around with a Crank sticker on…
But what a stupid move to tie himself so closely to Crank when one of his biggest supporters in the Springs is Sherri Offner. Say what you want about Sherri but she is relentless campaigner for her candidate. She was a huge asset to Schaffer in ’04 and has been trying her best to split her time between Lamborn and Beauprez. If Draft Dodger Bob openly allies with Crank, I wonder what is going to happen to her dedication for Both Ways Bob.
Then again, if Draft Dodger Bob does come out for Crank maybe Sherri will stop sending me all that Beauprez spam.
Kip: What are you talking about? Is MH Trasurer of another state?
I think the Colorado State Treasurer is Mike Coffman, although it’s been a tad confusing keeping track of who’s what and who’s running for what.
Mark Hillman was appointed to State Treasurer in Coffman’s absence.
Kip, perhaps you could point out where Hillman is on Crank’s endorsement page. I don’t see him listed? You wouldn’t be making shit up, by any chance?
I do see him on Lamborn’s page, which you so thoughtfully linked to your name, “Kip”.
The only dirty politics I see going on, is taking other people’s words and attributing them to yourself. Then blaming a poor campaign staff person for stealing those words.
Why does Crank feel the need to justify being a conservative with the phrase “common sense conservative”? Can’t he just be unapologetically conservative, especially in cd 5?
Kip: I think you’re pretty sloppy.
Maybe Kip is really the gidiot Olson.
Hipp —
Good point Hipp … but Coloradopols.com also has responsibility to remove any “copyrighted” material from reading.
Also, important to know, about that copyright law over the net (good post) … but is it civil or criminal? The law specifically states that once you have knowledge of the rule, only then are you required to follow it. I learned about it only yesterday, so now I’m a bit more careful. The Internet is such a new technology … it all takes time to understand it.
Note: Many book authors are not too happy about their written published works finding the “free” speech Internet. This is also true of downloading music and movies from a site that is free and breaking those copyright rules.
somebody:
That’s because Crank is neither. But he wants you to believe he has common sense and that he is a conservative. But someoneone with common sense wouldn’t plagiarize now, would they?
They are both going to be throwing mud back and forth when the press gets a hold of the FEC filings that both candidates made. Illegal campaign contributions in the amount of $1000 were made by the Musgrave for Congress Committee and the Hefley for Congress Committee.
Colorado Constitution Amendment 27 states no candidates committee can accept a contribution from another candidates committee. Musgrave’s committee reported giving Lamborn $1,000 on 2/28/06 while the Hefley Committee reported giving Crank $1,000 on 3/20/06. Go to fecinfo.com and check it out for yourself.
“Hippoponymous”: Actually I was just trying to make a joke.
I guess this is your way of saying that Vancouver, BC was a lovely place in 1969? Sorry, only meant to offend.
By the way Junior, I’m pretty sure those dueling contributions are perfectly legal. Congressional Races are not subject to Colorado’s Amendment 27.
Back to school with you…
Hey man if the shoe fits…
Junior:
State candidates get money from congressional offices all the time. No story there.
But I think the fact that Crank plagiarized will haunt him throughout the primary. (I don’t think he’ll make it beyond that point).
I wonder if Crank will give me permission to copy some stuff off his web site for my own… Who should I ask permission from – especially since it came from other unknown sources. Will I get in trouble?
I think it would be okay to source Crank. Everyone will know that you sourced a plagiarizer and that the original source was probably someone smart.
Plagarizing someone else’s work is nasty business. Stuidents are taught throughout secondary school, and college how to cite accordingly. In particular, students who are found plagarizing someones else’s work are often failed, and in some cases, placed on academic suspension or even expelled.
However did this, whether Crank or an underling, either or both should have known better. In todays web oriented, high tech based society, there is no excuse for plagarizing. It is too easy to be found out. There are software programs that will search the web for instuctors.
SHAME…SHAME…SHAME.
Then I guess there is more truth to what Iron Mike is saying and not just coincidence. Seems at the El paso County Assembly, there was a coordinated effort to make sure that the Crank signs were placed alongside the Beauprez signs.
Heck, we have obtained a copy of two signs strategically placed atop the urinals. Seems people were unsure whether to urinate in the urinals or on the signs.
Now, really folks, who would go to such extremes as to make sure that they place their signs a) in the restrooms, b) directly across from each other, and c) in such a manner as to raise suspicions.
it is a known fact that in the 5th CD, BB and his cronies are mainly supporting Crank and that it isn’t just coincidence that they are playing games together.
Seriously, with Hefley helping beauprez, it simply stands to reason that BB is helping Crank (the son I never had).
Every now and then I have the great displeasure of going to this site and entertaining myself by reading the immature, ignorant banter of all of you so called “know it alls”. I always seem to be struck by the complete lack of facts, the gossip and the childish back stabbing that personifies this site. At the end of the day, as I watch both of these races – the 5th CD and the Gubernatorial – I see very clear differences. Marc Holtzman is on the attack and Bob Beauprez is the polished politician. (Maybe not so much of a difference there.) Doug Lamborn cries more than a newborn baby, Lionel Rivera is completely clueless and Jeff Crank is the only actual adult running. Of all of these people, Jeff is the only guy that I would want to have standing next to me in front of my BBQ and if this whole plagiarism thing (everybody uses the same sound bites on multiple issues) is the only thing you’ve got against him, then it just shows me that I’m making the right choice in this primary. The last time I saw the 5th CD guys at a debate, the only one with an original “finally we’re getting somewhere” kind of answer was Jeff Crank. There were a couple of other okay guys, but they don’t have a snowball’s chance of winning. So, it’s Crank for me (unless Lamborn comes up with another horrifying, apocalyptic reason for me not to vote for him, like using the same words that every other right leaning politician is using out there) and still no clear winner in the Gubernatorial standoff.
Anyone know if Lamborn paid back the money from his son’s arson incident in the 90’s? I remember that day as if it were yesterday. Then Lamborn cried to the judge saying he wasn’t responsible for his son’s actions; the funny thing was A) Lamborn ran a bill a year later requiring parents to be held accountable for their kids actions and B) the judge told him he had to pay!
oops – i meant lamborn’s endorsement list. he mispelled colorado – “colorodo”.
i hereby give myself a free pass b/c i’m not staff
Liberal Lion:
There are MANY people in the 5th that remember Lamborn’s son was convicted as a juvenile for setting fires. Lamborn was ordered and lambasted by the judge to pay it back…I too wonder if he ever did. If he could find a way to get out of it, I am sure he did. I for one will not be casting my delegate vote on him. As for Crank, I can’t vote for him either for many reasons – one of which is that he doesn’t have an original thought in his head.
In many peoples’ opinion, Shari Williams has become a hack, and that will only be confirmed by her shilling for Crank. I hope that is not the case.
Crank is toast if he gets support from Both Ways Bob and the Phaseline minions. Then again, BB will only be hurt by such a move himself.
The conservative Repubs are sick of sellouts – look at SD22, SD13 and Penry losing top line to Matt Smith (not that Smith is anything but an opportunistic lib).
As a conservative hispanic, I hope the GOP establishment gets its clock cleaned this year, even if it means staying in the minority. If RINOs lose, it will only help us in the future.
I would sacrifice it all to see that troglodyte Bob Martinez fired. The State Republican Party is ruining the GOP. We are the party, not those worms, but they don’t get it.
those who are crying about “RINOs” are the same who supported Schaffer last year. word to anyone with half a brain — Schaffer got his ass kicked, including in El Paso County (by 8,000 votes out of 51,000 cast in the primary). then you decided to teach us a lesson by not supporting Coors in the general, so we ended up with Salazar.
well guess what — if you’re not a team player who will support the republican in the general, YOU are the RINO.
you’re not the majority of the GOP. get used to it.
Liberal Lion. There are several people in El Paso County who would know. Obviously the parents, the victims, and the juvenile court judge. However, ther is another person who might know. His name is Dave Stiver. Stiver ran the Crime Victim Restitution Collection Program for the 4th Judicial District Courts in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. The gazette once wrote a story about him as being a champion for crime victims.
If I’m not mistaken, Chuck Assay the cartoonist did a cartoon about the story. Know he helped us when our property was broken into and things stolen. Also know that the 4th judicial used to collect tons of money from these people.
If anybody would know, or could find out it would be him. Also, the gazette reported on the story several times. It made news in El Paso County.
The RINO’s may be the majority of the party. However, this isn’t the south prior to the passage of the civil rights with blacks having to go to the back of the bus. The fact is, the Republican Party needs the 30% of the Big “C” Conservatives or they don’t win.
Maybe the Big “C” Conservatives are tired of the Republican Party Establishment RINO’s always determining who gets to be Potato Queen. Maybe they are tired of always having to back people whom they later regret supporting.
Hey, prior to 1994, wasn’t it the RINO’s that controlled the Republican Party? Let me see. How long was it after John Evans was elected governor that the Republicans gained the governor’s mansion?
HMMM. Let’s see 35000 more votes out of El Paso County than Boulder or Denver. Think those were RINO’s? If so, you are nuts.
Everbody knows that the Schaeffer Campaign was not the most notable or stellar exercise. Also, he was outspent by Coors.
Yes, you got Salazar. And you may end up with Ritter. The more people learn of BB and his antics, the less they like him. It’s one thing to hold ones nose and vote for the alternative. It’s another to always have to explain someones behavior.
Conservatives have a conscience. It’s more about governing, and less about what the FRAT BOYS and their ESTABLISHMENT hacks desire – We just wanna win.
If you just wanna win, and not govern (ie Refs C & D) maybe you should just go and enter the Soap Box Derby. Everybody knows the difference between a RINO and a Democrat is that the Dems know which party to join. The RINO’s are nothing less than WHIGs in disquize. We all know what happened to the – We don’t want to take a stand on slavery – WHIG Party.
Get used to it.
Nicotine-
Maybe your title should read crack, not to confused with crank. Or wait maybe it should be…Kids for crank…
What an embarrassment for Lamborn (son’s vandalizing incident). I understand that Lamborn did not pay the restitution. When it happened, i remember a ton of media on the subject, including several articles in the Gazette. I’m sure Lamborn’s opponents have researched this through and will dump it at the right moment.
Who is handling the office pool on betting how many delegates there are, vs. how many votes are counted over the number of delegates?
Which proves Lamborn is a hypocrite. He will introduce legislation to force parents to pay for their kids mistakes, but refuses to do the same for himself.
Furthermore, his endorsement page still has congressional investigated weasel “Rep. Jim Welker” as a supporter.
Sounds like to me Lamborn has criminals in his corner…His Son and Welker!
I love you Mr. Handy!!!
Good question Blue Bronc. Over in Mesa County, There were about 40 more votes cast for the Sheriff’s race than there were delegates. The challenger of the incumbent lost the chance to be on the ticket by 3 votes. SpongeBob Martinez said that was too bad, but that the County Chair Lois Dunn is doing an excellent job anyway. She’s great at keeping the incumbent from being challenged. These kinds of unscrupulous actions are not only wrong, but they give our party a big black eye. It’s the same kind of stuff that Crank does when he plagiarizes and then blames a staff person and excuses is away like Nicotine. This is exactly why the Republican Party statewide is in trouble.
RINO and Conservative alike should expect fairness from its party leadership.
No…not expect, DEMAND fairness!
No…not expect, DEMAND fairness!
Mr. Handy,
Maybe we need to stop the bus, and help the RINO’s understand that they need us. I think this November, I’m going to stop riding in the back of the bus. (I will never vote Dem, but I may just sit it out and ask my friends and family to do the same) The RINO’s who think they’re driving the bus need to come to a screeching halt and the Conservatives in the party have the power to do it!!
So what constitutes a RINO and who gets to decide which Republicans are “real”?
What is a RINO? It is someone who says their conservative and votes yes 93% of the time. No matter the bill, how much it costs, etc. A RINO is someone who says their for the 2nd Amendment, but never introduces any pro-2nd Amendment legislation. A RINO is someone who says their for tax cuts, but votes in favor of budgetary and spending increases. A RINO is someone who says “Personally I’m opposed to Abortion,” i.e. they won’t be there when a fight ensues.
A RINO is someone who says their for stricter controls on illegal immigration, but never votes for stricter controls. A RINO is someone who spots the beliefs of Abraham Lincoln, but forgets what Lincoln stood for.
These are just the many examples. That is why the REpubs are in for a rude awakening in November if they don’t get their act together soon. Real soon. A RINO is someone who says they are conservative while running for office, then votes liberal when in office. A RINO is someone who walks, talks, and acts like a Democrat but because of the voter registrations in their area, the claim to be a Republican. In all actuality, the ay either Republicrats, or Democans.
Who should get to decide. Easy, the people NOT the party.
Look at katherine Harris in Florida. A solid Conservative being trashed by Jeb Bush because the powers that be have decided that they want someone else. Remind your of someone in Colorado. How about Bill Owens? Two days after publically supporting Schaeffer, those in DC decide that they want someone else.
Who decides a person is a BIG C Conservative is? the people, NOT the party. Party in terms of the establishment that wants to do their own thing and pick who will be POTATO QUEEN.
Hey Nicotine. Better be careful having Crank stand next to your BBQ, he might urinate on the fire!!! After all, wasn’t that done by someone else? Maybe it too was plagiarized.
Speaking of Advertising:
According to the Independence Institute.
Help from the taxpayer: Rep. Bob Beauprez is back with one of his favorite campaign tools: The four-color flier printed and mailed at taxpayer expense.
Residents of a certain age in the 7th Congressional District just received a large card in the mail urging them to sign up for Medicare Part D drug coverage before next Monday’s deadline “to avoid higher costs.”
The franked mailer is legal since Beauprez never mentions that he’s running for another office. It’s viewed as a legitimate information piece for constituents.
Congress liberalized the rules on franked mailings several years back and Beauprez has exploited them to the hilt. During 2004, when he faced a challenge by Democrat Dave Thomas, he mailed out at least nine full-color fliers.
He snuck this one out in the nick of time: Mass franked mailers are not permitted within 90 days of the Aug. 8 primary election.
Good response Mr. Handy, but if the “people”, not the party get to decide, why do the polls consistantly show Guliani and McCain as being the lead candidates among likely Republican voters? Why did Coors get more votes than Schaffer in the primary? The candidates you support do better among participants in the caucuses and assemblies, but it seems to me the “people” don’t agree. There probably will be a rude awakening if this divide continues and I’m sure the Dems will be very happy to see us eating our own.
LB:
If you’ll remember, it is questionable if Coors even made the ballot at State. If the party had supported Schaffer from the onset, rather than looking for a “shill” they would have promoted a united party going into the general. I believe under those conditions, Schaffer could have beat Salazar. But, the party bosses decided that Coors had his own money and name recognition,so they supported him. The big problem with Coors that Salazar so effectively exposed was that Coors was constantly trying to distance himself from some of his liberal company policies. Coors was a bad candidate for that very reason. He was trying to sound like a conservative but his company policies made conservative voters very concerned. That’s the problem with RINO candidates. Most voters want a candidate who’s lips sync up with their actions. Whether that candidate is liberal or conservative.
More people should blog like you do. You have very astute thoughts on that race and it is refreshing to see someone using their brain while blogging. I tend to agree with your thoughts on that race, and I think Schaffer could have won under other conditions. The GOP leadership did themselves in by supporting someone who simply did not have much appeal to the general voter.
Kudos for a well written blog and great analysis.