Ganahl’s new policy.
Heidi Ganahl’s struggling campaign for governor held an event today in Aurora to roll out her second choice for lieutenant governor after the Las Animas County Commissioner Felix Lopez apparently declined, the ex-chair of the state’s congressional redistricting committee Danny Moore. Moore, as Ganahl’s campaign has spent every day since Monday’s announcement performing damage control over, was removed from his position as chair of the redistricting committee over Moore’s baseless questioning of the results of the 2020 presidential election.
As the Aurora Sentinel’s Carina Julig reports, they shouldn’t have bothered:
It was standing room only Friday afternoon at JJ’s Place, where Danny Moore formally accepted the nomination to be Heidi Ganahl’s running mate in her campaign to unseat Jared Polis as next governor of Colorado.
Neither Ganahl nor Moore permitted questions from reporters, despite widespread criticism of Moore earlier this week stemming from election denier social media posts he made last year. [Pols emphasis]
Moore and Ganahl both gave short speeches to the enthusiastic crowd at the restaurant owned by Aurora City Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky. The event had been rescheduled from Wednesday due to a conflict with the 10 year anniversary of the Aurora theater shooting.
The campaign has already apologized for initially scheduling this event on the tenth anniversary of the Aurora theater shooting, though like their excuse for delaying the original LG announcement past the “holiday week,” the date was certainly known–or knowable–in advance. Much worse for Ganahl was inviting the press to this kickoff event in the distant reaches of “Saudi Aurora”…and then refusing to answer a single question.
Not just refusing, says the Denver Post’s Alex Burness, but even getting physical about it:
Colorado’s GOP gubernatorial ticket, Heidi Ganahl/Danny Moore, just held its first joint public event, at a restaurant in Aurora. They didn’t take any questions. When I went to introduce myself to Moore, a man walking with him said “no questions” and pushed me aside with his arm.
— Alex Burness (@alex_burness) July 22, 2022
What was the point of this event? To alienate the press even more than Ganahl has already?
It doesn’t matter if Ganahl packed a venue ten times the size of this sports bar. A couple hundred people who attended this event count for little compared to the thousands of people who will hear the story reported by the press, which is that Ganahl and Moore held a “public” event but refused to answer questions. Not just the “divisive” questions Ganahl has complained to the media about since the day of her campaign launch. Any questions.
So again, why hold a public event at all?
The confounded rollout of Ganahl’s LG choice, like so much of Ganahl’s campaign up to now, has consisted of a series of unforced errors on painfully public display. There was no imminent deadline forcing the announcement of Lopez before it was certain, and every choice since that original mistake has compounded the embarrassment. This is a campaign seemingly determined to wreck itself without any outside help.
All the campaign weenies wanted from calling it a public event is teevee pictures an B-roll. Sounds like they got it.
Yup. If I were the local stations I'd refuse to run it.
Fuck these guys pushing around reporters. Why do they take it?
Heidi will take your questions now. As long as there aren't any ruff ones.
I don't know who the bigger crybabies are, the media or Colorado Pols. If they don't want to take gotcha questions from the press they don't have to.
Moderatus, it seems that every media question is a "gotcha" question in Heidi's mind. She's still not giving me a reason to vote for her.
When you have no answers, every question is a gotcha question.
What was the last question you answered here, Moderatus?
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Oh…that WAS funny!
Obviously Moldy never watched Jen Psaki handle gotcha questions. Some people can and some people can’t.
HiediHeidi can’t.Cry me a river, Qaren. Heidi is a dishonest coward, and soon-to-be former gubernatorial candidate. Enjoy Polis's second term, twit
How about the feckless idiot who picked an election denier as her running mate and refused to answer whether or not the 2020 election was stolen, because it is a "divisive question". If she doesn't want to deal with any hard questions, she can always drop out. You know, since she royally sucks as a candidate.
Every time I see a photo of this woman, the first word that comes to my mind is "silly." She is not a serious candidate.
She's not even trying. Her biggest asset was not being a wife-beater.
I see Kaitlyn Jenner.
There are probably drops or ointments you can use to help with that. I wouldn’t wish those hallucinations on anybody.
Welp, yea, Ganahl & Moore certainly have a First Amendment right to say whatever and answer questions or not.
Those covering the event have an opportunity to describe it how they want, too. First mentions I saw:
Aurora Sentinel: Ganahl introduces businessman Danny Moore as running mate in Aurora, but shuns reporter questions
Chase Woodruff Colorado Newsline writer), responding to the Denver Post's Alec Burness tweet (above) by a twitter threadreader
I guess we'll see how it plays on other media outlets sometime soon.
I bet
independentconservativenewssourceGanahl PR Firm, Campfire Colorado got an "interview".Well, the last politician running state-wide—Smiling Cory—who refused to answer reporters’ questions did very well as I recall.
Control of the media is a fundamental component of Fascism.
Freedom of the media is a fundamental component of Democracy.
Eh?
I want to know what Polis is doing. How does a sure fire winner run an election. We know the losers do stupid stuff. Got it loud and clear. How about some coverage on what Polis has done to create such an insurmountable lead.
A Gilpin Guy: How about just simply being good at his job in leading the state thru difficult times, being able to balance a budget during those difficult times in a pandemic. want me to go on for the rest of the day?
And made sure that abortion is still an option for women in Colorado.
Granted Polis had a supportive legislature with no Manchin to screw things up but he has been able to articulate basic needs and find solutions. I
Well, if you want to know what Polis is doing: might check out https://polisforcolorado.com/
The lead paragraph:
Pretty solid: I might have stayed away from "leadership to weather our challenges" — and shift to leadership that addressed our challenges…
Or leadership that addressed our weather challenges.
If you don't provide words for folks to publish, folks will fill in with their own words. Maybe not answering questions was better than the words that would have come out when answering them.
They are going to avoid the press as long as they can.
But, at every event, the first question from the press will be: "Did Fat Donnie from Queens lose the election?"
Follow up: "Can you provide specific examples of voter fraud in Colorado?"
Over and over.
Ganahl, Moore and many others here in the state are willing to say something like "well, it was administered here in a barely okay way …. but all those other states, wow, was there Democratic theft.
Only the REALLY crazy R/Trumpists/"stop the steal" types think there was machine manipulation because Italy/Venezuela/China/the Rosicrucian Order & their Freemason henchmen had Dominion Software change the files.
Specific examples…. Barry Morphew cast his missing wife’s ballot for Trump.
People are going to be wondering why she picked Moore if she doesn't want to say if the 2020 election was stolen. He certainly believes it was. She couldn't have picked a worse running mate if she wanted to avoid the issue.
She’s playing 3-dimensional chess, GG 🙃
With a one-dimensional mind!