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July 31, 2008 05:56 PM UTC
65 Comments
How friendly will Coffman be to the Republican agenda for the SoS office if they succeed?
If his party screws him once again (remember how they treated you in ’06, Mike?), Coffman should consider becoming a conservative Democrat…
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as a former rebuffed conservative Democrat,
I don’t recommend that to anyone.
I got less than 4% at the Democratic District Assembly in Colorado’s most conservative district in 2006.
4 votes out of 118.
The Democratic party is angry at the whole “conservative” thing. They don’t want no stinkin’ conservatives as their representatives.
Yes, conservatives are welcome to join the Party, and to vote for the party’s candidates.
But they are not welcome to be one of those candidates.
Not even if their only shot at victory is a Ben Nelson-style conservative candidate.
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That would be aside from our junior senator, or any of the Democrats who picked up long-standing Republican seats in special elections this year?
…our Governor is also a conservative Democrat. One for whom I’m proud to say I voted.
but wasn’t sure if he actually falls more centrist. I’ve never heard him praise Alberto Gonzales. But yeah, Colorado is rather well represented with conservative Democrats. Outside blogworld, at least.
it just makes him sound foolish
Pro-union, an environmentalist, and pro-higher taxes.. When he RAN for governor he was a “conservative democrat”
That’s why you say he’s pro-union?
Signed an executive order to allow unionization of state employees.
…which is why no one in business cared, save that drama queen who owns the Denver Post.
He did get a bit hysterical with that comparison of Ritter to Jimmy Hoffa….
and many of the Dems who were elected to the state legislature in 2006 are more accurately described as centrist, I think, than as conservatives. Granted they are conservative compared to the progressive Dem base but not on a general scale.
can have him.
Who is the usual “republican” who tends to use vulgar attacks through independent groups during primaries…. I mean it’s not like he knows anyone who is in the race this time……
Nope, he has NEVER EVER attacked a fellow Republican… Not: Coors, Crank, Holtzman, and countless state level offices….
http://www.denverpost.com/busi…
Ugh.
Ask yourself. If you can’t win on the merits, then make up lies and attack your opponent. My guess is this leads back to Wil Armstrong.
You go negative when your behind to erode your opponent’s support and go ahead of him or her. This is an indicator that the poll cited by the Armstrong campaign two days ago may not be what they say it is. Has the Armstrong campaign released the questions asked in that poll yet?
would clearly mean Armstrong as the other two are non-starters. Although it could backfire if it just splits the “not Coffman” primary vote.
He’s done!
Looks like Curt Cervany and Scott Gessler (Wil’s campaign attorney and Amend 47 attorney) along with some Armstrong Donors dropped this bomb without permission from Protect Colorado’s Jobs.
This isn’t the first time for this group. In 2004 Scott Gessler along with Bill Armstrong dropped a 527 in July on Pete Coors.
This is not a good day for Wil.
Looks like your a typical politician Wil
That would be this Scott Gessler?
This race was Wil Armstrong’s to lose and he has. I pick Harvey for the Silver. Armstrong came in as the favorite and blew it.
There you go again Wil, using Daddy’s friends to do your dirty work. Coffman has this one in the bag…very few really like Wil.
I agree with CP…Harvey will come in second because of Douglas County. Wil a distant third.
GO MIKE!
With an overwhelming advantage in voter registration, the GOP could run Britney Spears for any office in Douglas County and still beat any Democrat. How else could someone as ineffective as Harvey stay in office? Harvey wins because the Douglas County GOP lets him and because he votes the way his conservative PAC supporters want him to, not because the voters like him.
When I ran against Harvey in 2004 for HD43, the rank and file voters that I met either didn’t know who he was or didn’t like him, and he still beat me 63%-37%. Sadly, I got more votes as a loser than Frank McNulty got as a winner for the same seat in 2006. Go figure.
Harvey was appointed to his House seat in 2003 and didn’t have a primary opponent in 2004 or 2006, so he’s never actually had to campaign for office. Heck, in 2004, as I recall, he didn’t even get a single campaign contribution from anyone living in his district! The thing I can’t understand, given his absenteeism at the legislature and his inability to sponsor or pass any meaningful legislation, is why he wants to be involved in politics anyway. He clearly doesn’t like it, and he sure isn’t any good at it.
take your ass kicking and move on already. For the record, Harvey was not appointed in 2003, he won his position in a special vacancy election against two or three others when Nunez left to take a presidential appointment. I also believe he had a primary for his current senate seat which he won easily over Mark Baisley.
The people of Douglas County know who Ted Harvey is and my guess is that they will prove it come August 12th.
I forgot about Baisley in 2006. I guess I should spend 30 seconds on Google before I post.
We can only hope so…
So that’s why he doesn’t care if he’s ends up in single digits. He doesn’t lose anythiny by running this time (unlike Steve Ward).
Ward knew he wouldn’t win in a primary for his senate seat so he scratched that idea and decided to run for congress. Steve is a legend in his own mind and has been very entertaining to watch during this campaign. He is actually trying to sell himself as a conservative which has been hilarious. There is not a more liberal republican in the state senate. Hopefully he will do us all a favor a just go away after this race.
That’s how you make sure your statewide “bench” consists entirely of candidates who can only carry El Paso, Weld and Douglas counties.
I think your advice is great!
that sucks pretty bad for us non-GOPers who live in the aforementioned counties…
You know the ARM’s(trong) campaign isn’t too excited about being caught with their hand in the cookie jar or we would have been bound to hear something about it by know. I don’t think they are going to be able to keep this sucker quiet though.
http://www.politicswest.com/27…
…in this case, a rogue elephant!
I question Stansbury, it seems a little suspicious that the first day the mailing hit was the day they released their poll. It seems a little to coincidental that it happened to hit the same day, that seems like a coordinated strategy to build momentum to me.
or it might just be that things happen quickly in the two weeks before an election.
Politicker CO has the story:
…But I refuse to agree with Tancredo on any point, so I have to support this random, orphaned mailing about Coffman.
Politicker CO’s Inside Edge reported back in April that Cerveny had it out for Coffman and planned to “destroy” him, when the political consultant was tied to another anti-Coffman mailing.
The Inside Edge reported a few weeks earlier that Coffman should expect what was coming his way, but not to take it politically. It was strictly personal:
Or something stupid. Got that right.
I know Curt and he would never have done a piece like this unless he had the nod.
Nice taking the fall for this Curt, but the people in the know…know Wil/Bill’s friends gave you an ok on this one.
Mike you deserve to be Congressman Coffman. Bad eggs like Wil/Bill Armstrong made the decision to vote for Mike easy.
Get out there and vote folks to make sure Mike wins BIG!
Of course, they paid for it. But Cerveny’s had this brewing for months. He’s got a chip on his shoulder and now everyone knows it.
Protect Colorado’s Jobs now can’t seem to answer who made the donation when all they need to do is call the bank.
The Amend. 47 crowd has got to be pissed because Armstrong’s supporters just gave them some really bad press when they are trying to raise funds.
My spy tells me John Andrews who shares office space with Curt was the bag man.
Think that’ll be the topic of his next column?
if Repubs going after each other like this in the 6th could make a difference for us! Sigh…
…definition for the beautiful-but-dumb crowd: what’s a “bag man” in this context?
(Given that Andrews may be one, I hope it’s really demeaning or expensive or something!)
It’s a mob term. Usually used when describing a protection racket. Oh, John, how far you’ve fallen.
…thanks. Funny, I thought Andrews was having a hell of time collecting money for any of his sophomoric projects as of late. Didn’t his latest I-hate-the-judges thingamajig fade away without so much as a whimper?
Are there commercial breaks for the Independence Institute and the Trailhead Foundation?
all the jokes and quips aside, thanks for the info, that’s a good update.
I take exception to this snidery:
“the “rogue” chairman (note inherent contradiction)”.
What contradiction? Chairmen can’t go rogue? If you believe that, you haven’t been involved in grassroots politics long. Chairs of organizations often “become the organization” by thinking they were the new CEO/messiah/whatever. Our local volunteer fire board has this same syndrome.
Sorry for all the updates but this has actually been about the only exciting thing to happenin the 6th CD race.
It appears that it was two Armstrong supporters that used Cerveny’s C-4 to run the hit piece. Cerveny represented that he had complete control over the C-4 and that the board was just “names on paper”.
The Amend 47 committee and John Berry do in fact know the names of the donors. They are trying to keep this quite as many of the 47 backers are Bill Armstrong followers.
John Andrews was asking several GOP consultants two weeks back if anyone had a C-4 that he could push some money through to attack Coffman. Andrews is a campaign co-chair for Armstrong.
Does that raise problems with unlawful coordination, if Andrews has a leadership role on the campaign and coordinated the independent group’s attack?
It violates the group’s non-profit status, it is illegal.
Think about it. They release a poll the same morning this piece hits. Then they have the same lame illegal immigration article on their website as was in the piece. C0-Chair John Andrews and Cerveny share an office. They have contributors and members of the board who were so angry they actually said 2 Armstrong supporters were the sole funders. Bill Armstrong has a history of nasty 527’s. Remember Schaeffer-Coors, Crank-Lamborn, Musgrave’s races. The list goes on and on. Just surprised he was this sloppy on this one.
Wasn’t Armstrong supporter Marc Holtzman found guilty of coordinating with a 527? What sentence did he receive? Just wondering if someone can go to jail, receive a criminal charge or if its just some kind of fine.
but it takes a long time.
or at least his supporters are, in this day and age you can respond so fast when these shadow groups try 11th hour attacks.
Coffman’s team or the media should keep pressing to get the names of the donors.
A former GOP President of the State Senate is doing illegal hit pieces on members of his own party.
Does the Denver Post still want Andrews to write a column after this episode?