(Uh… – promoted by Colorado Pols)
When I got home yesterday, there was a rolled-up election circular in my door. Usually, I toss these things, but it was from the Arapahoe County GOP, so I decided to give it a look-over.
The main brochure, an 8×11 double-sided full color affair, had pictures of all the Republican candidates for office in Arapahoe County and statewide. No big deal. There was a picture of Dan Maes, as one would expect.
Then I started looking over the other literature tucked inside the 8×11 brochure. There was a card for a county assessor, one for the coroner candidate (the one who accused his opponent of lying in a trial and then had to retract it), another for Clear the Bench and one for the GOP candidate for the 1st CD (I live at the southern border of the 1st).
And a flyer for Dan Maes.
And a flyer for Tom Tancredo.
Seems odd, doesn’t it? SO my question to the GOP – which one do you want me to vote for, or do you want me to vote for both? And if it’s for both, please tell me how I’m supposed to do that, since having voting for both candidates just might be illegal. Or it would invalidate my ballot.
PS – the Maes flyer has some nifty grammatical errors – capitalizes red tape (at best it could be in quote marks) and says Maes will “execute current laws” regarding illegal immigration. I have NO idea how he would “execute” a law. Sounds painful 🙂
Tancredo’s, on the other hand, is grammatically correct although silly. He says he would oppose taxpayer-subsidized in-state tuition benefits for illegal immigrants. It’s already against the law in Colorado to do that, but he may have forgotten.
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I’ve watched the College Republicans group here at DU try to handle the same situation. Back in September, they had a table to distribute yardsigns and literature to supporters – and nothing on the gubernatorial race. I even asked if they had a Maes sign, and they proceeded to roll their eyes.
I think that’s about all you can do as a representative of the GOP. It’s going to be a good year for Republicans, but openly supporting Maes makes you look silly/unprofessional, and openly supporting Tancredo breaks with your responsibility to the party. Better to just stuff your fingers in your ears while in public and then vote for Tancredo once you get home.
First, I hope everyone knows that judges in Colorado are not partisan, and are not allowed to campaign for office. Instead, they periodically stand for retention election, and are very limited in what they can do/say as part of the retention election process.
Sounds as if everything the GOP distributed in your county was partisan candidate material – totally appropriate. How did Clear the Bench get into that mix? Do most Republicans view the Clear the Bench effort as a Republican goal? Just curious.
When (and only after) someone starts campaigning against them, as is the case with CTB. They just choose not to. I debated about asking the chief justice about this a couple of days ago, when she spoke to a panel I was visiting. Decided against it, though.
but “they just choose not to.” Even if a judge faces an active campaign against their retention, they are very limited in what they can do in a retention campaign. They are not at all like a typical candidate for partisan office. If you haven’t already, read through Canon 4 in the “Colorado Code of Judicial Conduct.”
http://www.courts.state.co.us/…
Because of the Code, judges are at a huge disadvantage if someone comes after them in a retention election.
… it’s what the constitution says a chief executive — president or governor — does. It basically means carry out and enforce the laws. In this context, it seems pretty clear Maes is saying that he’ll aggressively enforce immigration laws. There’s a lot to mock about Maes, but his use of the perfectly appropriate term “execute the laws” isn’t one of them.
It’s a perfectly reasonable thing to say to a politico, or someone who is well-versed on the constitution. To put it into a flyer going out to the average voter is something else – you want to use much more basic explanations.
What else would the average voter infer from “execute current laws”?
The laws’ heads… or, um… electric chair!
Because when sportscasters say things like “the Broncos couldn’t execute on offense,” people assume that Kyle Orton experienced difficulties while trying to kill people.
There’s nothing insidery about the term.
It got put into the GOP packet because it’s John Andrews’ pet project. What a stupid piece of crap.
The initiative, I mean. I would never call John Andrews a stupid piece of crap.
but that’s just me (or my online persona.)
Richly ironic that the same outfit that cries for “clearing the bench” of all judges on the ground that some of them allegedly ignore the law, IGNORES its own laws requiring them to support their party’s nominees.
It’s a total violation of GOP rules and policies to include a flier for a non-GOP candidate who is actively opposing the official, actively-running GOP nominee.
But hey, who cares, right? The laws only count against other people.
… an Arapahoe County Republican, that is.
Don’t vote for either.
At least he’s got that going for him. 🙂