February 23, 2012 07:07 PM UTC

Note to Colorado Peak Politics

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• by: Konola

Dear Reagan Girl,

Don’t get too excited about Konola posting public notes to Sal Pace on ColoradoPols. You mistook constructive criticism from one nit-picky individual for the attitude of an entire party.  Democrats are not going to abandon Sal Pace in his race against Scott Tipton. We know that Pace has the ability to up his game on the campaign trail; we’ve already noticed him making great progress.

Democrats are supporting Pace, even this Democrat. Check out his fundraising results and compare them to your darling Tipton. It isn’t Pace that comes up short.

There is no way Democrats are going to vote for Scott Tipton, especially after he signed on to a bill that extends the Affordable Care Act exemption for Catholic Bishops to all employers and for any objection they may have.  We aren’t going to vote for him after he and his staff refused to understand that there is more to Planned Parenthood than abortions; that in fact, poor women depend on them for birth control and pap smears and mammograms. Even men visit Planned Parenthood for birth control advice and advice on avoiding sexually transmitted diseases.

Tipton’s lack of support for women’s health issues probably drove away quite a few Republican women in Grand Junction and most independent voters at the same time. You see, Grand Junction is an award winning regional medical center, so included in our voter base are lots of doctors and nurses and physical therapists and research scientists. They understand the need for women’s health care, and laugh at Tipton’s lack of understanding.

There is no way Democrats are going to vote for Scott Tipton, since we know he voted in favor of the Ryan plan. Democrats are not going to let Social Security and Medicare be gutted so that you can trickle up more money to the wealthiest people on the planet. In case you haven’t noticed, Mesa County has lots and lots of senior citizens, and they vote regularly. Mesa County doesn’t have a bunch of rich white men making money with other people’s money on Wall Street.

There is no way Democrats are going to vote for Scott Tipton, since we know he is in the pocket of Texans in the oil patch. Democrats don’t mind careful development of Colorado’s natural resources, but we want that development to be regulated. We like drinking Colorado wine that comes from wineries along the Colorado River, just downstream from the Piceance Basin. We like eating Colorado peaches grown in the soil along the banks of the Colorado River. We like being able to breathe air that isn’t polluted with gas flares in the oil patch, especially when winter inversions trap stinky air in our valley. We like being healthy. We enjoy meeting the tourists who come here to enjoy our wine, peaches, and natural beauty. Quite a few of us work in tourism.

If you want to keep quoting Konola in support of your candidate, you may want to check out other things she has written about your darling Scott Tipton. Did you know he touted a bill as creating jobs when all it did was allow banks to recognize losses over seven years? I’m an ex-banker, and I’ve never figured out how changing an accounting practice at a bank was going to create jobs. I mean, they aren’t going to have any more money to lend-it went out the door with the bad loan.

Link to the bad blog: http://www.coloradopeakpolitic…