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December 18, 2007 10:11 PM UTC
35 Comments
This is the way things should be done – a vast improvement, and I agree, a novel idea. Positive, helpful…
Jared continues to think outside the box. This is a really good idea.
Talk about the way to show fresh ideas. Kudos!
And the X-ray fluorescence better show up on the FEC report.
When he has a good idea the comments reflect that.
When the campaign is incompetent, they reflect that too.
And I’d bet money that on Aug.12th you will vote for him.
His innovation is infectious. He’s a foot smarter than the other candidates, and people know this. Even his cavalier attitude is admirable when you see time after time he’s acting as an active progressive dem. Sooner or later JP is gonna be a candidate that everyone rallys around and says, this is the guy on our side that can really make a difference. So bust his balls all you want now, make accusations about campaign improprieties and campaign incompetenacy; Get it all out so you can eventually say, “I’ve vetted him the best I could and now I am ready to support him”.
Competance matters so does the law
I used to just have a problem with A41, he helped the party a lot with his money. Although I have to admit those campaign commercials for SBOE where his nevous twitch made his eyebrows wave made my wife and I laugh.
but the more I’ve learned the less I like. Supporter of conservative causes like vouchers, and supply side reaganomics, and privatizing government (USPS).
His close ties to the Independance Institute, and taking money from swift boaters are also discomforting.
I defend him when I think he is right and criticise him when I think he is wrong.
Don’t fool yourself into thinking that my opinion of Jared is improving.
Tone it down, Neil. I’ll make a decision one way or the other by Feb. 5th, and it will be based on all the available information from all campaigns.
Whiny, “I know you better than you know yourself”, “my candidate is the greatest thing since the wheel” posts don’t help your candidate.
So chilly in Gilpin.
Sometimes Danny’s head spins around so fast I like to poke fun.
And yes, it gets cold up here when the wind starts blowing.
I’m a no-BS kinda guy (which sucked when I was asked to write a three-page English paper on a subject deserving of one sentence…). I get cranky when there’s too much BS in my life.
Are you saying I shouldn’t defend Jared when I think the attack is unfair?
This is the second time in the last week I have made a full throated defense of the guy on specific issues.
I nearly certain you work for the campaign why would you want to antagonize me? Especially on issues where I am defending Jared?
I hope not.
I do wonder though how you can spend so much time on blogs, researching topics, having opinions on many matters, and then support WS, who has had little to say about anything since he kicked off his campaign. I know you say the environment is your biggest issue but philosophically it doesn’t add up, to me anyway. That is my biggest beef.
Can anyone find where the info is on his website that talks about what Congress should do?
It is the Safe Consumer Product Act.
Maybe Joan’s Team should figure it out before they happen and they miss them. The Mary Alice Mandarich Dec 17 update has an odd line in it.
Last time I checked The Colorado Caucus is Febuary 5th. ( which is more than a month away)
There seems to be a consensus that this was an innovative idea. Anyone want to take a stab in the dark why other candidates across the country don’t do things like this? Why they don’t offer free goods or service, testing for lead paint, doing oil changes, buying a round of drinks?
Even I have to admit that I’m impressed by the ability of the Polis campaign to dupe people. Maybe their motto should be: “Buying and election has never been so easy.”
Excuse the double post.
Someone did a “cheap gas” buy last cycle – not sure if he’s been fined for it or cleared yet…
Things like this certainly push the boundaries, but I’m not sure they’re any worse than the effect of spending millions on ad campaigns.
Yes, it helps him get elected. But it’s clever, positive, useful, … Maybe more candidates should try and do something like this.
Do you really think that other congressional candidates across the country are too stupid to do something like this? What about the presidential candidates? No, of course not. They have all thought about it. But there are rules that everyone has to play by. Everyone, except Jared apparently. You, I’m afraid, are one of the duped at the moment. If you want to figure it out, do some snooping. I’ll give you a starting point:
http://www.fec.gov
I have frequently pointed out when I think the law has been violated. I have problems with Jared’s fast and loose understanding of the law. I think he served the state a dose of his cavalier attitude by supporting the poorly drafted A41. I think his Iraq trip, at least at its conception (based on media reports), violated the law or the campaign was so poorly run as to create that impression. I think he kitchen sinks in-kind contributions to cloak activities and that he employs a convicted stock manipulator to manipulate the web. But I have a basis for every one of those views.
However I don’t think this is a violation of the law. I don’t know because I don’t specialize in this area, but posting a link to the FEC website is not a justification of your position. Neither is saying nobody else does it.
WinstonSmith – it’s easy to cast aspersions – but give us some specifics here or I’ll assume you’re blowing hot air.
If Jared Polis does something wrong knock him. When he does something nice praise him. But, don’t come up with stupid objections like saying that testing little Johny’s toy train for lead is vote buying.
What do you call it? A community service? What do you honestly believe Jared’s intentions are for doing this?
There seems to be a consensus that this was an innovative idea. Anyone want to take a stab in the dark why other candidates across the country don’t do things like this? Why they don’t offer free goods or service, testing for lead paint, doing oil changes, buying a round of drinks?
Even I have to admit that I’m impressed by the ability of the Polis campaign to dupe people. Maybe their motto should be: “Buying an election has never been so easy.”
As long as this is properly disclosed as a campaign expense I don’t see a problem as it falls within the “Must be reasonably related to supporting the election of the candidate” definition.
If you are implying that it violates Sec. 597 expenditures to influence voting I think you are off base, but I am not an election law attorney. There is no quid pro quo “vote for me and you can x-ray your toys”.
Of course I could be way off on this
Maybe one of the campaigns will start building houses for poor voters. I’m sure that is ok right? Of course not.
that is a pretty expensive way to buy a vote.
Technically unless there is quid pro quo I don’t think that is a violation.
You mean Habitat for Humanity? They aren’t a federal campaign are they? I’m confused.
As for your quid pro quo…I’m confused there as well. Are you saying that people that take advantage of this would actually have to vote for Jared to make it illegal? That is certainly incorrect.
Let me give you an example. If I tell you I’ll give you free food or drink if you go vote, that is enough. You don’t actually have to vote. Are you trying to tell me that Jared isn’t trying to get these people to vote for him by doing this? Sort of like the Iraq trip was to promote non-profits, not his campaign…right?
I’ll give you free food or drink IF you go vote.
That is quid pro quo.
If I give you free food or drink and don’t condition it on anything.
No quid pro quo.
Sec. 597 as written is a QPQ ban. The problem with very valuable gifts is that the impression it creates QPQ, I wouldn’t want to defend valuable gifts to constituents.
As to your question “Are you trying to tell me that Jared isn’t trying to get these people to vote for him by doing this?” Of course not, there is no legal problem trying to get people to vote for you, that is the point of campaign spending.
I have commented at length about what I think was wrong with the financing of the Iraq trip.
http://www.darcyburner.com/new…
Larry Kissell (D) in NC-08 is doing the same thing.
http://projects.newsobserver.c…