August 06, 2024 02:09 PM UTC

Sandy Hook Denier Tom Ready Headlines "Strong Women of Pueblo" With Barbora Hurd

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• by: Colorado Pols

An event coming up this Saturday evening in Pueblo hosted by an organization calling itself the Strong Women of Pueblo County caught our eye for a reason that might be as obvious to you as it was to us:

As you can see, one of the hosts of Saturday’s Strong Women of Pueblo event is not like the others! Susan Carr, Cathleen Culhane Howland, Colorado House Minority Leader Rose Pugliese, Barbora Hurd, the spouse of CO-03 GOP nominee Jeff “Bread Sandwich” Hurd and admittedly maybe the one who should be running for Congress…

And a dude named Tom Ready.

Of course as our readers know, not only is Tom Ready not a “Strong Woman,” he’s a wildly inappropriate choice to host an event for any sort of woman, with a record spanning decades of domestic violence allegations and protective orders filed against him. In 2014, GOP U.S. Senate candidate Cory Gardner was slammed by the survivors of the Sandy Hook school shooting for hosting a fundraiser at Ready’s home after Ready publicly questioned Alex Jones style whether the shooting “really happened.”

Although in 2024 we’re not going to judge anyone who wants to be a Strong Woman, it’s a question worth asking whether Tom Ready’s far-out record is helpful for promoting any of the women candidates benefiting from this fundraiser. And while that technically doesn’t include Jeff Hurd’s campaign for Congress, Barbora Hurd might want to know more about her only male co-host before she puts the family name on the line.

This remains true even if Ready is making a bigger life choice than we thought.