CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
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President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
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CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Adam Frisch
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
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CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
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State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
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November 02, 2011 05:59 AM UTC
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However, I will admit, I didn’t expect anything different from Sirota. From the day she announced I had a hunch it would be this kind of campaign.
That’s why I wholeheartedly endorsed her and my Car 31 juju hex continues to be 100%.
Could not agree more. Sirota really looked like an ass here. Makes me question a lot of his other stuff as well. And so much for classy in victory:
http://www.ednewscolorado.org/…
Stay classy GG!
RIght away or do they wait until next school year?
Or are you really that out of touch?
But denver elected all the pro-voucher candidates, right?
Will they just start the prorgam, or will the invite the Koch brothers to town and do a big event?
I assume Sirota provided us with answers on his show this morning.
His sub was Mason Tvert, who surprised me by being a whole lot less annoying than Sirota.
He is one of my brothers from Center for Progressive Leadership.
I don’t know much about Tvert other than his 420 activism, but who isn’t less annoying than David Sirota?
Your candidate won. Instead of congratulating your candidate on the win and the other candidate for a valiant effort, and moving on to talk about policy goals, you instead write a scathing post-mortem of the election from your still bitter point of view.
I’m glad my children don’t read Pols. There’s not a whole lot of statesmanship to be found here tonight.
Your candidate won. You deserve to take a victory lap. Congratulations. I wish her well.
In regard to your diary:
#1. Grass-roots support: I’ll give you that. Anne’s been around a long time and people know her and like her. Awesome. I think Emily has an impressive amount of grass-roots support as well, but hasn’t been around as long.
#2. Voucher dead-horse beating: I still haven’t seen a clip or link showing Emily accused Anne personally of being in favor of vouchers. I have heard her imply the real enemy in the education reform debate is big business which has historically backed both vouchers and anti-teacher’s union policies in other places. If Emily did say Anne Rowe favored vouchers (show me concrete evidence, please), I agree that would be a mischaracterization.
Big business, which has provided the funding for Stand For Children and DFER and LFER and so many other groups that supported Anne Rowe, are dangerously encroaching into public schools. Why is that a problem? Businesses don’t just give money away for no reason. Even through philanthropic giving, there has to be some kind of return imagined somewhere, directly or indirectly. Do they want to put candy and soda machines in our kid’s lunchrooms? Use the school buses for advertising? Indoctrinate our kids with Republican-leaning ideas like there were never dinosaurs or global warming does not exist? Do they want to buy off school board members who will then undercut teacher’s unions, which everyone knows support Democratic candidates in elections? I suspect the last reason is the most plausible, but the others are not out of the question, either. Big business has no business in schools. Period.
I think the Sirota campaign should have focussed on the anti-teachers union agenda. I was just one of many volunteers — I wasn’t asked to give campaign advice.
#3. Your argument about the money is disengenous, and I think you know it.
Anne Rowe received $197,000 in contributions and Jennifer Carson-Draper received $177,000, as of a few days ago. That is 100K more than Sirota and Jimenez. Look it up. It’s on the same site you pointed to on your other threads.
Last, I don’t think a candidate is necessarily beholden to their contributors, so I think Anne has the opportunity to do what is right, rather than to vote the way her investers tell her to vote. Time will tell if she is anti-teacher’s union or not. I hope, for the sake of Denver’s students, she’s not.
LFER looks like it was funded internally. Nonprofits like SFC and DFER raise money, and most of it comes from corporations. That’s how it works, it’s not some sort of disease. You could make the same “big money” claims about PBS (takes lots of oil money) and the United Way.
And yes, often business (and people, and unions) give money because they want something to change – but that can be as simple as improving public ed – it does not have to be nefarious. Do you really think Dan Ritchie and Bruce Benson are looking for a “return” on their “investment” in a school board race instead of trying to gets kids a better shot at college? Really?
Public schools are already a huge business. The money is already there. The complaint that somehow the money on your side is somehow more pure than on the other side is hogwash.
taking our best teachers with them. He told me as much when I talked to him years ago. He is completely clueless about education.
Not everyone who does not vote for your candidate wants “to see teachers unions die”. There are some bad union regulations, there are some bad district regulations. There are good teachers in charter schools and TFAers, and yes in union schools. And bad ones, ditto.
The idea that in supporting something in addition to the traditional school model means “the death of unions and all good teachers” is campaign rhetoric and sloganeering. Rise above it instead of shoving people like Benson down to it.
http://www.squarestate.net/dia…
Don’t really want to have to re-type how I know what I know about Benson.
BTW, I don’t disagree there are some good charter schools — Cherry Creek has one other parents seem happy with (not my educational philosophy, but to each, her own). I also agree there are a few bad teachers in every school, as well as the vast majority who do a great job in every school, and rarely get credit.
Black-and-white thinking is not going to fix our education problems.
It will help you use the word more accurately. Nancy’s comment was specifically about Bruce Benson, and you responded with a bunch of irrelevant crap that doesn’t say anything.
Unless you need me to explain any of this to you
[glib] – adjective
1.readily fluent, often thoughtlessly, superficially, or insincerely so: a glib talker; glib answers.
No problem. Carpetbaggers are a real familiar sight out here in the WEst.
Then settled in Colorado, I note that–as a citizen–I am of equal stature as any life-long Coloradan, able to vote and run for office.
Unless you are Ute or Cheyenne, I suggest we are all ‘carpetbaggers.’
AS such, I am hypersensitive to how the “locals” view the outsiders. Nancy Crock writes about Denver from Cherry Creek, I think.
It’s been 12 hours since I looked at Pols, so no, I am not ignoring your comments. I was just living my life. What is your question?
is just a cranky old coot.
Best ignored unless he says something dangerous, and then he deserves the full brunt of outspoken oposition.
Putting a life over blogging? Have you no shame, Ma’m? At long last, have you no shame?
n/t
Putting a life over blogging? Have you no shame, Ma’m? At long last, have you no shame?
CO is the first place I lived that I ever developed a sense of place
I have lived in CO far longer than in any other locale. I consider myself a Coloradan.
Soon after I moved here I was speaking before the Mesa County BOCC. The only question I got was from Doralyn (‘Donkeysuit’) Genova…
“Where are YOU from and how long have you lived here?” Kathy and Jim rolled their eyes, along with Ms. Genova, when I answered.
They want our money, they want to sell us homes, they want our business… but our opinion? Not so much.
I find it a tiresome attitude.
It’s just plain stupid.
It takes about 10 minutes to figure out the distinct local issues.
Taxes, education, transportation, medicaid – about the same everywhere.
Water takes a few more minutes to understand – and most of the locals don’t understand the law or the issues either. (Example – just ask people who owns the water that falls on their roof. Or whether and how Reuter-Hess has water to fill it.)
I understand why the argument gets made – any counter argument takes too long. It’s still pointless. Oddly, it only seems to get made much out west, where supposedly we free thinkers don’t care about such trivia.
Secretary Clinton won a Senate seat in NY. Senator E. Dole won her’s in Virginia. But go to Texas and you’ll be reminded 100 times a day why you are not a Texan. And around here about once or twice a week why you are not a Coloradan.
It’s ok- you locals can call yourselves “native” all you like.
And plain stupid.
But this sort of thing is hardly unique to Colorado. People look for easy, prejudiced ways to dismiss opinions they don’t want to hear, and localized nativism is still hunky dory with most people in America.
in the little Kentucky town my parents retired to…25 years ago. She’s a ‘newcomer’ and ‘carpetbagger’ too. I wasn’t implying it is limited to CO, indeed–as you note–it exists all over, but the Western Slope does find it a quite prevalent persuasion, in my experience.
Marilyn Musgrave tried to paint her as a New York carpetbagger. Angie had lived in Colorado for nearly 20 years at the time. Moved here pretty much straight after her basketball career.
But what quicker way is there to discount someone’s opinion than to dismiss them because of where they live? It’s the argument most people revert to when they have nothing else to say about the actual issues.
I probably shouldn’t even comment on state politics until I have lived here as long as dwyer has been alive.
everyone can stay.
Except for ‘dem Texans and Californians.
They all just need their driver’s licenses revoked.
been done is not a good way to decide that is how you should continue to do them. There is always something to learn from others. However, when folks move here, or anywhere, they must learn what the framework is in the new locale. The framework (CO likes to stovepipe) is terrifically informative.
Let’s not go off pretending that money doesn’t make a difference. It doesn’t take anything away from Rowe or Sirota to state the obvious: That the #1, #2, and #3 reasons that Rowe won is that she raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for a school board race.
Again, this isn’t to disparage anyone, but the breakdown here isn’t very complicated. What Rowe did or didn’t say, or what Sirota did or didn’t say, are ultimately far less relevant than the fundraising. At last report, Rowe had raised $197,000. Sirota had raised $89,000. It doesn’t matter who you are, or what you are running for — 99 times out of 100 you’re going to win if you have that much more money than your opponent.
The Governor of Montana liked Sirota!
I don’t watch much commercial TV to know if she had ads running, but in yard signs they were even, Sirota had lots more public visibility events (street corner honk and waves), and Sirota was dropping three pieces of mail a day in my mailbox to biweekly for Rowe.
I think the better candidate won. And oddly enough, better candidates often (gasp) raise more money.
I expect that when Emily Sirota files her final campaign finance report, she’ll show that she spent over $100,000. Additionally, now that the report from the union group Delta 4.0 is out, it looks like they probably spent over $100,000 too.
Now, it’s definitely true that Anne Rowe spent a good deal more money. But in a school board race, $100,000 is more than enough money to get your message out there. Everyone knew what Sirota stood for. They overwhelmingly rejected it. I don’t think it’s at all true that simply having more money means you will win.
Money doesn’t buy votes. It gets your message in front of voters. The voters in District 1 know what they were voting for and they voted against Sirota and her anti-reform message. You don’t lose an election by 30 points because people agreed with you.
It’s not surprising that district 1 voters would solidly defeat an anti-reform candidate either. Historically, District 1 has been very pro-reform. Bruce Hoyt won here overwhelmingly last time.
Might be nice to stop dumping on Emily Sirota for, I don’t know, a day. This diary is just pathetic: whine whine whine. Sirota lost by a landslide; what else do you want? Do you want her to come post here and say “I’m sorry for trying to win”?
I guess you people need to keep posting about this shit because you have nothing else to say and no other threads to comment on, but endlessly repeating one thing in many different diaries doesn’t make you look like less of a one-issue shill.
Oh by the way, Hi DenEdDem!
Honestly — your candidate won. You should be proud of that and be gracious in your victory.
Then again, hearing Anne’s staff, I guess this doesn’t really surprise me. I didn’t know either candidate well (not my district), but I heard one of Anne’s staffers joking in the back of a forum about Emily’s child not actually being hers and how she used him “as a prop.”
Your post and her staff’s attitude reflect poorly on a new elected official.
This is in response to this and earlier comments suggesting this post is to disparage Sirota. It isn’t.
I thought it was really important that some clear the air about what really happened in this election, instead of vitriol and misinformation people have been spewing.