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(R) Trisha Calvarese
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(R) Donald Trump
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(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
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(R) Jeff Crank
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
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September 23, 2010 07:15 PM UTC
17 Comments
of course it is only Illegal if a Democrat does it.
I am sure marilou, LB, BJ, OBR, and gopsquaw will find Nothing wrong with this.
I don’t think it’s illegal for a candidate to coordinate or communicate with representatives of their party. I’m pretty sure that illegality only arises when candidates coordinate with outside 527s, 501(c)4’s, and other outside groups.
So, what’s the story here? Why is this on the front page?
Parties can only contribute to state candidates as though they were individuals; if the party sets up a small donor committee, then they operate under those limits.
If a party organization commissions a poll, then the only way for them to get it to the candidate is to either make an in-kind donation to the candidate (which is likely to exceed their contribution limit), or make the poll public (the candidate gets the info, but so does everyone else…).
According to the SoS, Political Parties may contribute up to $13,780 to a State House candidate during an election cycle.
See page 2 of this Quick Reference chart on the SoS site.
Political committee vs. political party gets me every time.
She’s coordinating with the GOP! Moooooommmmmiieeeeeee!
Boy that was a quantum leap to concluding that there was illegal coordination going on – a reference to an unnamed GOP representative means absolutely nothing unless that representative (whether an R, D or U) was affiliated with an entity that is barred from coordinating with candidates. What if the GOP representative was simply a member of the Southwest Swashbuckler Breakfast Club and had been present when some pollster made a breakfast prsentation and gave out those numbers?
Come on Pols, let’s settle down and do a little more thinking before blathering.
And maybe a unicorn whispered the poll numbers in her ear while she was sleeping.
You’re standing on a “Jump to Conclusions” doormat. There is absolutely nothing illegal about her statement.
It’s the coordination that’s the problem. Admitting it wasn’t illegal, just stupid.
But this is a weak issue. Although the unicorn concept is interesting.
That doesn’t sound like (what’s the football term?} incidental contact to me.
Political parties can coordinate with candidates.
In fact, if memory serves, despite Amendment 27, the US Supreme Court allows political parties to do unlimited “coordinated” independent expenditures for their candidates.
That stems from the 1986 Wirth / Kramer campaign.
Now, if she met with a 527 rep, that’s a different story.
doesn’t have enough money to pay their trackers, let alone put polls out into the field. i’ll bet money this came to Conti’s ears from whichever GOP rep is working the 527 side of things – read ILLEGAL.
’cause, you know, they can’t co-ordinate with 527s… 🙂
Trust me. This twit isn’t going to beat Colonel Rice. I’ve been involved as a volunteer in HD38 politics for years and through both of Joe’s previous elections and Conti will go down just like the others.
My unaffiliated husband just received a mailing (paid for by Our Colorado Values) that read like a love letter to Joe from South Metro Chamber of Commerce. It calls him Colonel Tax-Cutter and quoted John Brackney, President of the Chamber, praising him for cutting ” two obscene taxes”; the business personal property tax and the tax on charity and fundraisers for public schools.
As per the former, turns out the costs of complying with regulations were so burdensome and the cost of collecting the paltry sums so out of whack with the amount collected it was a really silly tax with no upside for anyone. Pretty much ditto with the burden of figuring taxes on the proceeds of school bake sales and such that make up for lack of sufficient school funding at no cost to local or state governments.
Mailer also mentions that he wrote a law to target credits to small businesses that create jobs and to make sure they have access to loans. He voted to freeze property tax rates. Take that, GOPers.
Oh and something he won’t mention but others will; his multiple decorations for exemplary service during 4 tours in Iraq. The last tour was the result of his being specially requested by a three star to serve on his staff for his expertise in dealing with US/Iraqi interface during the transition from US to Iraqi military responsibility. Hometown hero for the SUV magnet crowd if there ever was one.
Expect a concentrated heavily funded Rice blitz, both from the campaign and outside groups, that will obliterate Conti. Joe is no rookie anymore so his campaign will spend the most when it counts the most. She probably has good early polling numbers only because she got a bunch of signs out early so people have seen her name. The Rice campaign started getting their signs out later so they make a fresher impression going into the election while the opponent’s signs have become month old wall paper. Joe’s signs are now spreading all over the place.
Rice may tick off progressives because he’s so much more centrist than what they would prefer (oddly they love the nearly equally centrist Romanoff. Go figure) but they know they won’t get anybody more progressive elected in HD38 so Dems join chamber types and vets in supporting Joe. Conti should enjoy the ego boost of an early and probably not very accurate poll before it’s just a faded memory. Badly as the GOP wants this formerly rock solid safe R district back (it’s embarrassing to see it in D hands), their next chance will be when Joe leaves on his own or reaches term limit, not before.