March 25, 2024 10:30 AM UTC

One Small Mistake, Thousands of Donor Dollars Wasted

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• by: Colorado Pols

Late last week, the mailer you see below from the notorious “no compromise” gun rights group Rocky Mountain Gun Owners landed in mailboxes across Senate District 12, the Colorado Springs-area seat being vacated by GOP CO-05 congressional candidate Sen. Bob Gardner. The mail piece in RMGO’s usual in-your-face style doesn’t mince words or images, with photos of Mao and Adolf Hitler behind the Colorado state representative they’re attacking…but whose name we confess we didn’t initially recognize:

The reason for our momentary confusion was pretty simple, since there is no “Rep. Mark Snyder” in the Colorado General Assembly. There is however a Democratic Rep. Marc Snyder, representing a portion of Gardner’s Senate district who happens to be running for Gardner’s SD-12 seat. Unfortunately, that means anyone who uses the email address provided above to contact Rep. Snyder is going to get a bounceback–not just because Snyder’s first name is misspelled, but the domain in the address is simply wrong.

Since RMGO has a reputation for attacking fellow Republicans with as much or even more ferocity than they do Democrats, we would like to give them credit for actually spending some of their money in a way that could be considered helpful to their own side. But if RMGO can’t even spell the name of their target correctly in a costly color mail piece, it doesn’t speak well for either their quality control or making good use of donor funds.

When RMGO reverts to their usual form of eating their own, Democrats hope they do better.