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September 15, 2011 05:35 PM UTC

Quick! Hide The Dunk Tank!

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Bob Moore of the Fort Collins Coloradoan updates the latest developments in the story of Secretary of State Scott Gessler’s controversial upcoming fundraiser for Larimer County Republicans.

Who seem to be reacting poorly to the controversy.

The Larimer County Republican Party, criticized by a variety of groups for scheduling a fundraiser with the state’s chief elections officer to help pay off a $15,700 campaign finance fine, has responded by moving the event to a private location and barring the media.

“As you may have read, we originally planned a more public event, but as usual the media in its unrelenting desire to malign Republicans has made a circus of the event and that is the reason for our change of venue,” [Pols emphasis] Larimer GOP Chairman Tom Lucero said in an email Wednesday to party members, which he shared with the Coloradoan…

The party earlier this month scheduled a Sept. 22 fundraiser in a Fort Collins park to help pay off the fine. Gessler was to appear in a dunking booth, with GOP members paying $10 a throw in an effort to dunk him.

The dunking booth has been scratched, but Gessler will be the featured speaker that day at a private home. Suggested donation is $20.

We love that Lucero says the media made a circus of this event. Um, you were the one who brought in the dunk tank. A dunk tank doesn’t generally lend itself to a tea and crumpets fundraiser.

But since they’ve scrapped the dunk tank, this would render moot the question of whether Democrats get to dunk Gessler too. It seems as though the idea of Secretary of State Gessler in a dunk tank was meant to mollify the obvious criticism here, that Gessler making a colossal joke of campaign finance law by helping the LCRP raise money to pay the fines his own office assessed–and dramatically lowered. Because, you know, they were going to dunk him to “take out their frustrations” over the fine!

It’s not just you. It’s one of the more ridiculous things we’ve ever heard, too.

And the problem is, losing the dunk tank and “barring the media” from a fundraiser still starring Gessler, and still intended to cover fines levied by his office…doesn’t actually help anything. It just makes the media even more interested about what you’re trying to hide.

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26 thoughts on “Quick! Hide The Dunk Tank!

  1. You can run…but you sure as hell can’t hide.  That invite/poster story is here to stay.  Dems are you listening?  Give us a serious candidate that’s electable. Electable being the operative word here.

  2. Maybe in lieu of a dunk tank they can offer swirlies. If waterboarding is fine with the GOP then traditional High School waterboarding-lite ought to be nothing but  good natured fun. And, by the way, remind me… what do Larimer County Dems have to be frustrated about?  

      1. mentality that reigns supreme with the Larimer County GOP. Like this, for example,

        In his email he [Lucero] said former Secretary of State Bernie Buescher, a Democrat, participated in a fundraiser for Democrat Cary Kennedy after his office levied a fine against her.

        Records show Kennedy’s campaign paid $1,150 in fines for late filing in 2010. Buescher’s office didn’t reduce the fine, and Kennedy never had a fundraiser specifically aimed at paying off the fine.

        But hey, 20th Maine and some other dumbass the other day on here said it happened so it must be true. Facts be damned. Records be damned. It must be true, because if you repeat a thing often enough…

  3. in case Scotty suffers the ultimate insult and drowns. Someone will have to document the time and then the coroner will have to determine manner and cause of death. By law he would have to have an autopsy. HB 1158

  4. Stealthy liberals in that hotbed of liberal stealthiness, Grand Jct, driving a public official away from having to suffer questions from liberal media biased reporters maligning the Republican Party.  

    [Twitty channeling ArapGOP]

    1. I was talking about the Sentinel, not necessarily GJ as a whole.

      This is much ado over less than nothing. Buescher held a fundraiser for Cary Kennedy after hitting her with a fine, too. Maybe the Sentinel should remember the actions of a local pol, but then again they’re a bunch of stealth liberals.

      1. do you?

        In his email he [Lucero] said former Secretary of State Bernie Buescher, a Democrat, participated in a fundraiser for Democrat Cary Kennedy after his office levied a fine against her.

        Records show Kennedy’s campaign paid $1,150 in fines for late filing in 2010. Buescher’s office didn’t reduce the fine, and Kennedy never had a fundraiser specifically aimed at paying off the fine.

        Tired of your lying. Get your facts straight or make up a new story that isn’t so easily disproved.  

  5. there is also the issue of any forthcoming CORA requests to determine if any public business gets transacted at this “closed to the public” event

  6. “the media in its unrelenting desire to malign Republicans has made a circus of the event.” No the Republicans have already done that themselves…this is a dunk tank we’re talking about here. You might as well have it next to the cotton candy machine and the bearded lady.

    1. are complaining about “the media” making the event look like a circus.  In fairness, the graphic is probably a little less circus and a little more carnival/freak show.

  7. Closing this to the public all but guarantees they’ll raise more from this insanity than the Larimer Republicans do. The only way the Republicans were going to get much traction with this was from the fact that it HAD become a circus… speaking in front of the few Larimer Republicans not embarrassed enough by this to avoid even paying $20 to see Gessler talk, yeah, that won’t even match MOTR’s $100.

  8. You may not have heard about it, but Moore has been named the executive editor of the El Paso Times. He’s outta here on Sept. 30.

    I wish him nothing but the best – you will be very much missed!

    1. I appreciate that you didn’t describe El Paso as “greener” pastures, just other. It wasn’t an easy decision to leave Colorado (again), but El Paso provides some great professional and personal opportunities for my wife and I. I was there almost 20 years previously (earning me a brief mention in Karl Rove’s autobiography.) The U.S.-Mexico border is an incredibly dynamic area, especially for a journalist.

      Thanks to all the kindness Polsters have extended over the past couple of years. I’ll keep watching from afar.

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