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June 02, 2006 08:00 AM UTC
34 Comments
Every pro in this business known the Secretary of State is seriously lacking in current voter information. Another reason to clean House.
What, you expect a bureaucracy to be actually capable of doing its job?
Looks like a reasonable explanation. How could MH have prevented this problem? Why didn’t he?
Has the damage already been done? That is, have most voters, or just the activists, written him off?
Will voters support you if you have a major screwup like this? Doesn’t look good.
he can always afford TV, he will have an impact. I think it is just us.
Donetta Davidson is the reason the office is so screwed up. She was terrible on voter stuff. Hopefully the new SOS will clean up her mess.
Gigi hasn’t been a shining beacon of light on voting matters, either. Ken Gordon for SOS! If he’ll jump out of a plane to demonstrate how much he wants to engage voters, just think of the possibilities for voter registration commercials…
PS – Boy is Mark going to be pissed if his polling outfit didn’t verify registation of the signature gatherers. Probably not as pissed as he’d be if he finds out that the tossed petitions were collected by longtime Republicans, though.
Next steps for Holtzman…
1) Become a footnote in Colorado politics
2) get used to the term “also ran”
3) Vanish!
Holtzman had a right to petition, and he has a right to contest the process. He has 5 days. I think you all would also contest signatures you thought were being thrown out without validity. (Blue ink vs. black ink; petitioners not in the SOS database; etc…). History shows that he has a shot. He needs to see this through.
Who does Mike Huttner work for? Is he one of the Dead Govs? Wow..Tim Gill is everywhere?
DENVER – Gov. Bill Owens (R-Colorado) Friday suggested Republican gubernatorial candidate Marc Holtzman step aside to unify the party heading into the upcoming elections.
http://www.9News.com
I think he absolutely should see this through. If the SOS office has this screwed up everyone should back him up on having them fairly count the signatures.
And if this is a major mistake on the part of the SOS’s office, I hope that it torpedos Gigi’s chances of getting the Lt. Gov nod – this is a job that it is absolutely critical that the SOS office gets right.
– dave
“If Holtzman is disqualified, there would be no gubernatorial primary. Beauprez would be the lone Republican candidate. Former Denver District Attorney Bill Ritter would be the lone Democrat in the race and independent Paul Fiorino would round out the field”
Even Fiorino will go further than Holtzman, and he didn’t even have to spend 2 mil!
Perhaps if Marc followed in Fiorino’s footsteps (no pun intended) had put on some tap shoes, his candidacy might have gotten further. Ahhh, the road not taken…….
What the heck does that “Tim Gill” remark mean, Wondering? Are you suggesting a nefarious Gay Conspiracy to keep Marc Holtzman off the Republican primary ballot? Seems, um, rather unlikely on several levels.
The anti political free speech ruling about the referendum just before the parsing of the number of signatures to keep Holtzman off the ballot ARE CLEARLY CONNECTED !!!!!!
The GOP establishment gets an absurd ruling Holtzman broke a blatantly unconstitutional law to discredit him and that’s their justification to parse signatures, and break laws to keep him off the ballot.
I fear the fix is in and any honest judge that stops it that will be quickly overturned.
woody obrien, how can you say “the fix is in” and an honest judge would be overturned? Do you not believe in the apeals process? Judges that make flawed rulings are usually overturned down the line.
Dont be sad woody, it looks like you are the one who FINALLY uncovered the vast right wing conspiracy everyone has been talking so much about. pat yourself on the shoulder, job well done.
Watch out Drudge, looks like youve got some new competition…
“Holtzman Screws Up Again, Praise Jesus, we may still have a chance to recruit him”
(overheard remarks at the Over the Rainbow Coalition during nominating convention to select the new Supreme Midget).
Mr. Anderson… Just when I thought this mess was getting ugly you have to go saying something so utterly hilarious… Thanks for lightening the mood…If you are a single white male republican I want your number
I see the Little Fella hired John Head as his other election lawyer and is hoping that history will repeat itself w/ him playing the role Mary Estelle Buchanan and Bill Ritter as Gary Hart (w/out the libido problem, of course). History may not exactly repeat itself, but it does often echo……
(from http://www.9News.com)
What a curious thing to admit. “Democrats for Holtzman!” (in the primary, anyway….)
And of course, this:
If he is not successful, he has hired a prominent Colorado elections lawyer, Mark Grueskin, a Democrat, to help push the issue in court.
Bill Kaufman heads up “Republicans for Ritter.” There actually are some “Democrats for Holtzman.” Where does this leave “Both Ways?” All alone with the Trail-head people?
LOL
Republicans for Ritter. Bill Kaufman, lone member of the organization.
Why would any intelligent conservative want to support a Beauprez/ Dennis ticket? To keep power? Guess what? We haven’t had it since our governor turned tail and supported C and D. So we can have Both Ways Bob and his liberal sidekick? We better change the GOP symbol from the elephant to the rhino to avoid being sued for false advertising.
Democrats for Holtzman in the primary.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Where does this leave “Both Ways?” All alone with the Trail-head people?
Yes.
Or at least certainly without the conservatives that make up so much of the Republican party base.
Yes socrates, you are dead on. the 72% of the conservatives at the state assembly felt the exact same way.
I hate to have to be the one to clue you into this, but the Republican Party in this state has been alienating conservatives for some time.
There are a lot of voters out there who were not delegates to the state assembly, and an awful lot of them are conservative.
And if they stay at home, the Trailhead candidates lose.
Sorry to not weigh in earlier, been out of the state all weekend, just got home.
The way this process worked in the past was if a circulator was not found on the statewide rolls, a call was made to the appropriate county clerk and they checked their records for the registration. This often rectified the issue of circulators who registered at the last minute just to circulate the petitions and their registration hadn’t made it yet to the SoS’s data base. If this was done in the current checking process, Holtzman may be in danger, but of it was not there may be hope for him yet.
The current system that is used to get updates to the voter rolls from the counties to the state is extraorinarily cumbersome and is the primary reason the legislature passed a law requiring a statewide interactive system so that all counties could update the state database in real-time or very near real-time. However, the failure of the previously selected vendor to make this happen resulted in them being fired last winter and I don’t think a new one has been selected yet.
There is another issue about Holtzman’s petitions which has me puzzled. The article in the Denver Post on Friday said nearly 4300 signatures were disqualified because it could not be determined what CD they were in. I am inclined to believe this was a misrepresentation on the part of the Post since the article was written by Karen Crummy who is notorious for not getting her facts straight on her election-related stories.
But if the Post article is accurate, then I have to question what that category means. I would think if there is an address, how can the SoS’s office not know what CD it’s in? I have not asked the SoS’s office about this yet (read the article on the plane on the way out of town on Friday) but I can only assume these addresses had some other flaw such as a PO Box being used, a false address being used, or maybe not enough of the address was given to determine for sure (for example: if all that given was 1322 Broadway, is that in Denver, Boulder, Ft. Collins, Waldenburg, etc etc?).
I’ll explore that further with SoS’s office tomorrow.
As somebody who got in on a petition campaign after it was too late, I can tell you, they’re trickier than they seem. What’s been reported is the first problem – candidate hires a contractor (probably somebody recommended by some out-of-state party consultant) and said candidate waits for the job to get done. The contractor runs down to pick up some day-laborers who say “oh yeah, I’m a registered republican”. Then, they go stand in front of Home Depot (bad strategy) and get anybody and everybody to sign (to petition onto the party primary, the person signing the petition MUST be registered in the party of question). To save a buck, our candidate-to-be doesn’t order up enough signatures (my experience says you need 1.5 times the number required to make the cut). So you end up with not enough of a bunch of questionable signatures collected by people you can’t find again.
For as many of these signature collection operations that fail, it amazes me that they petitioners seem to make the same mistakes over and over again.
I’m pretty familiar Dan Kennedy, the petitioner who was hired by Holtzman, and he runs a pretty tight ship. He does not hire circulators unless they can prove their registration.
Holtzman’s primary probelm was he did not hire Kennedy fast enough. Had Dan has a week or two more to operate, he probably would have pulled it off.
My questions about the report from Friday’s Denver Post have been answered in today’s. I list of the reasons why signatures were thrown out and the number that were disqualified for those reasons was given. Looking at that info, I really do not see how Hotlzman can expect to be successful in court.
As I Democrat, I wished he would have made the primary ballot. Even though he no realistic chance of winning he would have made the GOP primary bloody enough to better serve Ritter. And if did pull off a miracle win, all the better. Ritter vs. Beauprez will be a tougher fight than Ritter vs. Holtzman.
Mike Huttner will work for ANYBODY! If he isn’t working for a candidate, he will tell you he is! The guy is a low level schmoozer with little to offer except a truly over inflated ego! As him how he got the dems voter file a few years ago… Go ahead, ask him!
ISO “I Love Politics”—-Seeking SWF who will likes walks in the park and dinner at Noodles. Non smoker, duh the ban, prudent with finances, duh the constitution, duh Ref C, duh confused, some what open minded, duh the ban to ban marriage amendments….whatever. I am a Vegetarian skier who likes the beach and debates about who has a bigger head: Holtzman or the Bob’s Big Boy.