Awesome: Skorman Stands Up to Jeff Crank

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by: glasscup

As I noted the other day, the Colorado Springs Mayor’s race continues to be a bit more interesting than the Denver mayoral.

Just saw this pop up on their blog down there (can we post links to the gazette? I don’t remember… Sorry if we’re not supposed to!). After crazy rightwing radio host Jeff Crank tried to ambush Richard Skorman on his show, Skorman is showing quite a bit of back bone and going after Crank and his group that is apparently spending a whole lot of money attacking him…

Mayoral candidate Richard Skorman just responded to Jeff Crank’s invitation to appear on his radio show tomorrow morning, and the response ain’t pretty.

Skorman compares Crank to Douglas Bruce, saying he’s part of the group of people who “have given Colorado Springs such a bad name around the country.”

His whole letter to Crank is also there, in which he seems to make some pretty solid points and calls on Crank to pull the ads…

The facts are simple: in a campaign with no limits on contributions to candidates, if you didn’t have something to hide, you wouldn’t resort to secret outside spending. So, I’m giving you the opportunity to do the responsible thing and disclose the American’s for Prosperity list of donors who are funding your Independent Expenditure campaign against me. I am also asking you to do the responsible thing and at least acknowledge the appearance of a conflict-of-interest of your employee Laura Carno, the recent producer of your radio show, who is Bach’s Campaign Chief of Staff.

Jeff, I challenge you to do the right thing and take down these IE ads immediately, so your candidate, Steve Bach, can finish this run-off standing on his own two feet, without the support of your secretly-funded, out-of-state special interest group.

The part in bold seems particularly relevant. If they weren’t trying to hide the source of the money, why is it being funneled through Crank’s group instead of going straight to Bach?

5 thoughts on “Awesome: Skorman Stands Up to Jeff Crank”

TheDeminator says:

April 30, 2011 at 5:26 am

Also sharing – Jeff Crank, a conservative radio host who is the director of the Colorado chapter of Americans for Prosperity, said his organization has spent about $100,000 on TV and radio ads that portray mayoral candidate Richard Skorman as a tax-and-spend liberal.

“Our first media buy was $50,000,” he said in a telephone interview.

“I just did another one, I believe yesterday, that’s another $50,000,” he said.

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calicoloradan says:

April 30, 2011 at 11:17 pm

Why is the money being funneled through Cranks group instead of going straight to Bach? Are they trying to hide donors or something? There don’t really seem to be other good reasons for doing it?

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1. DavidThi808 says:
  
  May 1, 2011 at 2:27 am
  
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2. cdsmith says:
  
  May 2, 2011 at 6:39 pm
  
  is that Jeff Crank wants to build public recognition of his group, Americans for Prosperity.
  
  In any case, I fear he’s won the battle here. The more he can turn the mayoral race into a partisan affair, the more likely his preferred candidate will win. He doesn’t need to come off blameless; he just needs it to sound like the whole race has turned into partisan bickering. The independents will be turned off, and the partisans will come out to vote. Jeff Crank has more partisans on his side in Colorado Springs.
  
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Ralphie says:

May 2, 2011 at 3:15 am

Every time I read the title of this diary in small print on the right side of the screen, I read, “Skorman steps on his crank.”

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