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May 11, 2015 01:45 PM UTC
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Antillon is an active candidate for HD32 in 2016, according to TRACER. And yes, this is the same guy.…
Antillon's restaurant is in Milliken, which is way up here in Steve Humphrey's district, and the district he's running in, HD32, is about 57% Hispanic and 47% Democratic. So, I would guess he has a fair to middling chance of getting elected, unless his extreme pro-gun views are more widely publicized.
So, although it won’t violate any campaign finance laws, it is not just a stunt for bringing people to his BBQ business – it absolutely is a way to get his name out there in conservative Republican circles for his HD32 run in 2016.
I wonder if Dudley will sink any ammo-dollars into this district…..
BTW, was Nate Marshall there for White Appreciation Day?
In the past Dudley and Edgar have really not gotten along at all.
Also, little trivia item on how unusual of a life Edgar leads. I think I remember (though I could be mistaken) that his wife (and mother of his four (?) children) has decided she is alternative lifestyle. If I am right, I doubt Dudley would have anything to do with him.
I didn't realize that Dudley Brown had a "straight and narrow" candidate test, as well as his standard Second Amendment Uber Alles criterion.
I was surprised to find no trace of RMGO funding in Antillon's campaign finances- considering how much of a gunhead he is. Really, there's hardly any money at all. His campaigns have been mostly self-financed. He must really want to be a representative, though, because he has kept trying for five years now, although that is not a friendly district for a Republican, even a Hispanic Republican.
Maybe White People Appreciation Day will be his big breakthrough issue, one way or another. As Chaps could tell you, having widespread name recognition isn't always a good thing. I wouldn't ever vote for Antillon, and apparently the voters of his district feel the same way, but he is probably a well-meaning, if wrong-headed guy. The right wing blogosphere reaction to his supposed "persecution" is frightening.
Dudley Brown holds the practitioners of alternative lifestyles (to use Elliott's words) in almost as much disdain as he does those faux ammosexuals like Jon Caldara who would agree to the 30-round clip limit.
Recall that in 2012 he got caught financing a nasty hit piece on former State Senator Jeanne White which featured a NYC gay couple's engagement photo with the Brooklyn Bridge airbrushed out and the Rockies added in, telling White's constituents that this is where her vote for civil unions (who can remember those?) would lead.
The sad part (for the RMGO) is that there actually are some ammosexual gay men and lesbians out there who would probably support Dudley's nutty views on the Second Amendment but who are put off by his freelancing on other right wing issues.
Better to stick to your guns (literally and figuratively) on gun safety/control issues and avoid the other hot button like reproductive choice and gay rights where you're likely to offend true civil libertarian types.
Long before Dudley was a liberty loving patriot, he was just another slimy GOPer operative. Dudley's interest in gun rights, has always been more about right than guns. Sad what useful idiots the gun toters (or any other group of fools) are on Dudley's behalf — decades of successful NRA fear conditioning, I guess?
Elliot, you are so stuck in the 1970's. Alternative lifestyle? Do you mean she is a Sister of Sappho? Or that she came out as a lesbian? (We're allowed to say the "L" word in the 21st century.)
Being gay a "lifestyle"? What planet have you been living on, these past several decades, Eliot?
Elliot is a pretty ridiculous person.
really great info. thanks
It was fun digging. I'm guessing that whole "appreciate white people" thing might have gone over like a deflated football if Antillon had tried it in HD32, the 57% Hispanic / 47% Democratic district he's campaigning to represent, which is Arvada, Commerce City, Twin Lakes, and Derby.
HD32 Dems outperform Rs by 42% at the polls.
So “whites as misunderstood, unappreciated minority” plays a heckuva lot better in HD48, 75% white, +33% R performance Milliken, where Antillon’s BBQ business is.
District political leanings from Colorado Capitol Watch. Links to individual district demographics also accessible from the CCW page.
Is this what donations to RMGO pay for – this clown?
No wonder they are getting their asses kicked every which way but Tuesday.
RMGO did donate at least $3000 to Steve Humphrey's campaign. So far, I don't see any RMGO contributions for Antillon for any of his attempts to get elected over the last five years.
There is a real schism within the Colorado Republican party between those who suck at RMGO's teat, and those who suck….well, something else.
The others, who pass as moderate CO Republicans these days, suck at the teat of the NRA……
on their own sense of self-righteousness and victimization.
like all of the victimized white folk who for centuries have had to bear the stigma of being white and dealt with all the crap dumped down upon them for no reason other than the color of their skin.
A crowdfunding site can't be far off if not already unveiled. It's grifting for dollars.
Culture vs. Color
My beef with Antillon's stunt, whatever it's motivated by, is primarily because he is rewarding people a discount based on the color of their skin.
Now if we're celebrating European culture, most whose artists were pale complected, and we have a British writers day, or an Austrian composers day, I'll be right in there toasting Bill Shakespeare and Amadeus Mozart. I'll do my cheap-drunk thing and down half a stein of beer at Oktoberfest, then dance to accordion music, which sounds just like Mexican ranchera music, because they both come from Eastern European folk dance / Polka tunes.
American culture is more diverse – if we're celebrating American culture, it can't be just based on skin color…duh…because we are a patchwork of colors and cultures. I'd be down for celebrating Frederick Douglass and Mother Jones and FDR and Will Rogers and Nina Simone and…you get the idea.
But cutting people a break based on skin color, or conflating color with culture, is racist and wrong. It's a step backward to the bad old days.
That is all.
Roger that…
If you look at the title of this diary through the transition part of your bifocals, "Republican activist" looks like "racist."
Have to borrow some.
Edgar Antillon is fair game. He is a politician and a businessman, a public figure. His wife, whatever amalgam of LBGTQ…… she identifies with, should not have be gossipped about unless she chooses to "come out" publicly.