February 22, 2022 02:16 PM UTC

Heidi Ganahl Lets The Crazy Flow Through (At Least Near) Her

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• by: Colorado Pols

Colorado Newsline’s Sara Wilson reports from a candidate forum held Sunday in Fort Collins by a group calling itself the “Colorado Conservative Patriot Alliance”–not quite as overtly threatening as “United American Defense Force,” but still all man–featuring a very interesting cross-section of Republican candidates for elected office in 2022 up and down the ballot:

“Republicans are finally aligned on our messaging. As you hear all of us speak, you’re going to hear a lot of the same things. [Pols emphasis] I don’t think there’s a lot of argument about what we need to do once we win,” gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl said.

And who are all these Republicans that Heidi Heidi Ganahl is referring to as “finally aligned on our messaging,” you ask? With not “a lot of argument about what we need to do once we win?”

Other candidates who spoke included gubernatorial candidates Danielle Neuschwanger and Greg Lopez; U.S. Senate candidates state Rep. Ron Hanks, Gino Campana, Peter Yu and Deborah Flora; state House District 46 candidate Ryan Armagost; Larimer County sheriff candidates John Feyens and Jeff Fisher; and Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters as a last-minute addition.

While Ganahl was reciting from a script about “aligned messaging” with her fellow Republicans, others on stage were making that suggestion highly ill-advised: like gubernatorial opponent Danielle Neuschwanger who thinks Gov. Jared Polis is masquerading as a gay man, and Gino Campana whose message is “vote for me because I’m rich like Donald Trump.” And if Republicans are “finally aligned on our messaging,” does that include Ron Hanks‘ single issue of avenging Trump is no longer a “divisive question?” What is the message sent by Ganahl appearing with Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who may very well be in custody before the November elections on election tampering charges, with Peters’ primary opponent in the Secretary of State’s race nowhere to be found?

If Ganahl wanted to put daylight between her campaign and the very worst of her party running in 2022, all she had to do was call them out in this forum. They were right in front of her delivering their applause lines. In fact, if Ganahl truly does disagree with Tina Peters and Ron Hanks, she had an urgent obligation to distance herself from them lest she be branded by their antics. In the hour and a half this forum ran, Ganahl never did that.

Instead, Ganahl took the stage with them, and then took ownership of their “aligned messaging.”

We see no reason to not take Ganahl at her word going forward.