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July 05, 2010 09:41 PM UTC

Don Beezley, New Best Friend of Democrats

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Continuing our series of profiles of some of the more interesting legislative candidates being fielded this year, we turn to Broomfield, and the House District 33 seat presently held by Democratic incumbent Dianne Primavera.

HD-33 is another key swing west Denver metro district, like Sara Gagliardi’s HD-27, and Republicans have similar high hopes of unseating Primavera as part of their rumored $4 million strategy to retake the Colorado House in advance of the next round of redistricting.

But there’s a problem: like the GOP’s contender in HD-27, Republicans might end up regretting the choice they made for this hotly competitive race. Don Beezley, who we briefly introduced you to before as a Leadership Program of the Rockies graduate and Independence Institute rising star, is going to have a tough time holding up to scrutiny. Because he is, in a word, crazy.

Don’t like recycling programs? Opinions vary, but we’re not sure how many of you will go as far as Beezley did in a Rocky Mountain News letter from 2005:

The June 13 article, “Recycling gold mine,” reveals the totalitarian instincts of the environmental movement…[i]n other words, our “enlightened” overseers need to bring down the hammer of arbitrary political power to force us to live the way Lombardi believes we should live. The Soviets and Nazis killed more than 30 million of their own people trying to convince them to live “the right way…” [Pols emphasis]

So that’s what the “Soviets and Nazis” wanted all along? Recycling! It’s…so obvious!

And in a letter to the Broomfield Enterprise from a year before, we learn that Beezley feels pretty much the same way about smoking bans. Next stop, genocide:

The abject arrogance of those who want to make our decisions for us would be amusing if it weren’t so dangerous. This philosophy of force, once accepted, leads to all of the terrible tragedies of the 20th century, and now the new ones we are seeing in the 21st. [Pols emphasis] I’ll teach my children to respect the rights of others, insist that their rights be respected and to take responsibility for their own actions. I won’t teach them to resort to force when someone doesn’t do what they want them to.The City of Broomfield embraced tyranny and got the smoking ban wrong.

Other memorable quotes attributed to Beezley include price gougers “doing us a service,” how public education is a “communist model,” and his heartfelt belief that liberals want to “enact an evil, socialist revolution through judicial fiat.”

And this is just the tip of the iceberg with Beezley, folks, the Lexis/Nexis and Google results keep going and going–we could fill several posts with his fringy quotes. Overall we think he’d make a delightful addition to a caucus that has given us (not to mention Democrats) so many warm memories, from Jim Welker to Dave Schultheis, the only thing standing in his way being HD-33 voters who–for all the talk about “backlash”–may not want to backlash quite this far.

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38 thoughts on “Don Beezley, New Best Friend of Democrats

  1. Ever heard of context? Obviously, he was discussing the whole underlying leftist philosophy rather than just the specific issue of recycling.

    1. Your dumbest comment. I think you’re smarter than this, but if you really believe that recycling or anything else quoted here can appropriately be compared to the Nazis, perhaps you aren’t.

      1. Ever heard of context? Obviously, the Beej has been making one long dumb comment here for months.

        But his conviction that recycling equates to genocide adds important context to all his other comments, including the ones that sound “sane” out of context.  

          1. Pure continuous context from “Recycling” to “Nazi killing”.

            I guess you come by your ignorance honestly, BJ — you don’t have any reading comprehension skills either.

                1. although some of them need to hear it. I assume a lot of those people who couldn’t pass a math class are on here, blogging from their parents’ basement after they flunked out of college.

      1. No one is limiting him or you from spitting up factless talking points, nor is anyone saying that idiotic candidates can’t compare recycling to death camps.  

        But we, the reality-based community, are likewise free to call it idiocy.  

      2. What does “free speech” have to do with anything? Nobody is saying this guy doesn’t have the right to make these statements. Anyone has the legal right to compare recycling to the Nazi regime, but that doesn’t mean it is a smart thing to do.

        Beezley has the right to say whatever he wants, though it’s not going to help him get elected. The bigger point here is this: Didn’t Republicans do a quick online search to see if there were any problematic statements in Beezley’s background? The quotes above are not a partisan problem — they would be just as damaging if Beezley were a Democrat.

      3. We all have the right to free speech.  But none of us have the luxury of speech free of consequences.

        Like the folly of an ugly tattoo acquired in haste years earlier, words written in the ether will always be with us to paint a portrait of any person’s character.

        A lesson many a youth today have yet to learn.

    2. but how would you know?  Have you researched his remarks and found the context you claim to be so obvious?   Somehow I doubt it, just as you had no idea what cuts had taken place in Colorado Springs when you sniffed that surely there were plenty of things to be cut before police and street lights, though both had already been cut.

      Once again, may I suggest…umm… looking things up?  And once again may say a teacher who thinks it’s legitimate to claim this or that to be so based on absolutely nothing, no research, no fact checking, no personal knowledge, has no business teaching anyone anything. The idea of you as a professor someday would be laughable were it not so horrifying.

        1. I’ll just have to restrain my impulse to answer your inanities from now on. There really isn’t any more point than trying to have a discussion with a rock. You know you make ‘Tad look like a friggin genius, don’t you?  Don’t bother to answer that.  I’ve had some dumb teachers in my day but …just wow….

  2. my financial support of Mr. Beezley was money well spent.  Someday, the methane from landfills will power millions of homes.

    I will do anything possible to get Don elected.  It is refreshing to find someone who values liberty over leftism.

      1. He still thinks we are disturbed by the idea of a conservative professor, rather than by the idea of a teacher or professor with absolutely no idea how rational thought works. For a while I couldn’t help myself, like when you just have to slow down and look at an accident, but I’m done.  Just not going to look anymore.

        1. and some terrible liberal ones.

          The former were smart and made me back up my points, modeling that behavior themselves.  The latter uninterested in real discussion and argumentation.

          That is the point.  I would want my children exposed to good teachers of different political perspectives.  I am not afraid of thoughts and ideas that differ from my own and wouldn’t raise my kids to be either.  My own positions are more solid because of it.  

          1. and you can understand that and probably 99% or more of ColPol users can understand that but don’t waste your time trying to get he who I will never even mention again (hint: think Monica Lewinsky’s specialty) to understand it!

  3. Somehow I expect Beezley will find some excuse to justify “trying to convince [gays and lesbians] to ‘live the right way…'” and “trying to convince [women who want to end their pregnancies] to ‘live the right way’.”

    If Beezley had the courage of his convictions, he might be somewhat interesting. But as long as he opposes gay marriage and abortion, he’s just another typical Republican hypocrite.

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