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February 17, 2009 07:16 PM UTC
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Is that Coruscant in the background?
Same ball-park amount of experience as Obama has when he ran for sentate? Except, I’m assuming Frazier has a voting record, not just a bunch of “present” votes. Just sayin
I think you should fire up a facebook group for Frazier.
Obama’s State Senate seat had the same number of citizens, roughly, as 2/3 of Aurora’s population.
And as a former Hillary supporter, we hyped the “present” votes knowing that they wouldn’t stick. He voted present about 12 times a year, in comparison to the many hundreds of votes in the body. He wasn’t even in the bottom half of Illinois’ legislators in doing so, not by a long shot.
It’s fun to spew talking points, “overrated,” but it’s a lot better to talk about facts.
Just sayin’.
2007 Aurora had about 310,000 citizens, 156,000 voters spread over 2 counties, about 153 sq. mi.
2009 Aurora has about 310,000 citizens, 189,000 voters spread over 3 counties.
You know, cities and counties have residents — countries have citizens. Just by the way.
I don’t know anything about Councilman Frazier but with the dearth of talent in the Republican Party its probably good somebody from outside the usual suspects is looking at this.
After 47 was defeated. He was a big cheerleader for RTW, and sort of staked his young career on its passage (at least in the short term).
I really thought he’d wait some time to rehabilitate his image, and run in 2014 or 16 for some higher office. I s’pose I was wrong.
Form an exploratory committee. Raise some money. Blow it on some trips to DC. Go see the Smithsonian. Schmooze and make contacts. Beats pothole detail.
They need new talent. For the Reps, merely circulating new talent will have a beneficial effect. Ultimately, for representative government to ‘work,’ ‘somebodies’ emerge from ‘nowhere.’
But it would be more believable and realistic for him to consider congress in CD-7 or something. U.S. Senate? He’s not ready for that by a long shot.
wouldn’t make it out of the primary. He’s pro gay rights.
How ironic. By being on the right side of the issue he’s automatically out of consideration by his own party.
Only those who pass every litmus test need apply to be a Republican candidate.
When will people like this, who are what may be called socially liberal pubs, get fed up and start a 3rd party ? When will they finally throw up their hands in the air and disassociate themselves with this irrational shrinking theocracy ? I see it coming.
They’d better bring some Dems with them, or there will be a permanent Dem majority.
Many Republicans haven’t gone to the court house and changed their registration but in their heart and mind are no longer Republicans as the party is defined today. If the Party remains as far to the right as it has over the past eight years, we will see people formally leaving the party in great numbers.
Apparently the libertarian Republicans will reclaim the party and be socially liberal and economically conservative.
I just don’t think there are that many socially liberal Republicans around. The ones who did exist either turned into Blue Dog Democrats or filled the ever-filling ranks of the Libertarian Party (the biggest party ever among parties that never win elections anywhere).
believe that people should be permitted to be who they are. Recognition inside the ethical world of the Republican Party’s traditional base, for one, is moving persistently in that direction. The details are yet to be determined of course, but setting gay rights in stone will only be done with Republicans. And Republicans will only succeed when they start appealing to the growing pro-gay-rights majority.
2010 is right around the corner.
He loves this guy.
There is one thing Frazier has on Bennet: he’s won an election.
I was waiting for you guys to turn out the snarky diary on Frazier. Truth be told, none of you jack asses have heard him speak, and there in lies the problem with your attempted premature assasination of his candidcay.
I know that you guys would never come out in support of any GOP canidate, but to only have the dude’s picture to make fun of? Man, sounds desperate to me.
I’m hearing only great things about Frazier, so keep trying to knock him down…if he gets out of the primary, Bennett will have his blue blood hands full.
Love ya guys!
Both Frazier, and you, are delusional if you think otherwise.
School Superintendents do either….
Carl Levin’s only previous elected office before heading to the US Senate was a stint on the Detroit City Council.
It’s not the same demographically (Detroit being a much larger percentage of MI’s population than Aurora’s in CO), or in partisan terms, but your broad-based assertion that people don’t move from a City Council to the US Senate is not correct.
We meant in Colorado. No Colorado city council member is going to be elected to the U.S. Senate.
though we can dig up exceptions (including Bennet), shooting straight to Senate never having held ANY elected position (not even City Council) is confined to celebrities like HRC (by marriage) or Caroline Kennedy(by birth). Next up; Al Frankin via SNL in Minnesota, the state that elected wrestling star Jesse Ventura to be their Governor. Interesting state.
Then there is the strange affinity Hollywood hating Republicans have for movie star Guvs. Bet there are a lot of hard-working state legislators who wonder why they bother trying to forge a political career the old fashioned way; working hard, building credibility and gaining experience from the bottom up. Like Andrew Romanoff.
Both Bob Bennett and Orrin Hatch had never been elected to anything before. I think there is something like 12 Senators whose first office was their current seat, including Lautenberg (NJ), Bennet (CO), Collins (ME) and several others.
vaulted from such an obscure position, it was Gary Hart who won the Senate seat by defeating incumbent Peter Dominick. Hart had never held office before running. He had, however, managed George McGovern’s presidential campaign two years earlier.
I won’t go over the list of Senators who’s previous electoral experience was merely serving as a city councilman as you have indicated that you meant Colorado.
Just because it hasn’t happened before doesn’t mean it won’t, something is always impossible until someone does it. With all due respect Pols, you’re delusional if you think it can’t happen. Politics is a funny thing…
Ben Stein’s $ has a point-the guy is a good speaker. Simply serving as a City Councilman may not be that sexy, but if he has a good message that may not matter. Hell, Coors got 47% of the vote without elective experience.
You’ve hit Frazier’s slogan on the head. Excepting that Coors had virtually 100% name ID and came from a long line of Republican funders.
I’ve heard Frazier speak plenty and I think Ben Stein is delusional. He’s OK, but only OK.
I’m not going to challenge your perception, I only wonder what sort of settings you’ve seen him speak. I’ve seen him speak a couple of times in “red meat” settings and he’s done pretty good.
But the point is that holding certain office isn’t automatically indicative as to how they will serve as Senator (or any other office for that matter) in this day and age. Who would have thought that serving as a state Senator or small town mayor would be serious experience referenced by people running for major political office? Colorado obviously puts message ahead of “experience”; just look at the successes of Obama and Ritter here. Neither of them had the traditional background for the office they were seeking.
So at the end of the day, we should a)wait and see if he announces and b) wait and see what his message is, because that seems to be more important then a resume these days.
That’s no mystery, he’s been spouting it for years. He’s been a darling of the Independence Institute since he first ran for office in his mid 20s. They’ve been grooming him for statewide or federal office since the beginning, and he’s been encouraging the chatter since 2004. Good for him, he’s a striver and has powerful backers. But let’s not pretend he’s anything but a creation of John Caldera and some of his younger followers, or that his “message” will hold any surprises.
I’m “on the phone” right now.
You’re hearing only great things? Then I assume you and your GOP contacts are in full support of his move to extend Domestic Partner benefits to Aurora workers. Glad to see you guys coming around on the issue of gay rights and fully supporting a candidate that has embraced the gay rights agenda.
only Al White seems to have gotten that memo among statehouse Republicans.
….city councilman in Chattanooga before jumping to the US Senate in 2006?
BTW – Bennet hasn’t even ran for public office before – EVER – as of right now, Frazier has a VAST amount more of experience with public office, and dealing with constituent issues, than Bennet
BTW 2 – kudos to Frazier — our Party needs more minorities and more politicians willing to stand on the proper side of issues related to the LGBT community
gives Bennet experience with a much larger constituency base than an Aurora city councilman.
I do agree with you though, Ali, that those on the right who stand with gays and lesbians have a political future–the fundies do not.
of Chattanooga before being elected to the Senate.
Chattanooga is world famous for Corker Tires.
I was a customer years ago. My 1936 Chevy needed new tires.
Every member of the state legislature has more experience than a city council member in Aurora, Lakewood or anywhere else.
Aurora City Council has had in the past and currently has members who were in the General Assembly.
City council is a fine place to make the jump to the state legislature. But not to make the jump to U.S. Senate.
How do you know that Ryan wasn’t staging that photo in a direct and intential parody of politicians in general? The guy knows what he’s doing Pols…come on man! Give us at least Frazier, we’ll give you Holzman, Beauprez, Rowland, Tancredo, Wiens, Gardner etc. But at least let us try Ryan out for a while. You may like him.
He’s looking like an asshole as a commentary on politicians who look like assholes! It’s the most meta candidacy Colorado has ever seen!
talked to Colorado GOP officals and it seems he’s really into this. He’s getting connected and starting the first steps.
He won the Rocky Mountain Right Straw Poll and surprisingly Republicans know his name a lot better then I thought they would.
He will run and with a new fresh face like his on the national level…he’ll probably whip off Tancredo unless 2010 is about immigration which it probably won’t be about.
A-knob, this is a family Web site. Hush.
If Frazier turns out to be Bennet’s opponent, with the ire of labor unions, does that provide Bennet cover to vote against the EFCA and get some political capital with the business community? Would labor unions still provide Bennet with ground work and support if he has a moderately pro-labor record (minus EFCA) against Frazier, one of the public faces of Amendment 47?
An interesting question about posturing, I think, that I’m sure Sen. Bennet is thinking about right now.
But Bennet won’t be deciding how he’ll vote on EFCA based on the slim chance he’ll face Ryan Frazier next year.
If someone can come across as a winning campaigner I think the Republican party will happily line up behind him (or her) and do everything they can to get them elected.
I’d say wait and see how he does over the next couple of months before jumping to a conclusion.
the guy’s been in elective office for years and took center stage on RTW last year. There’s plenty of evidence out there to draw conclusions. Whether desperate Republicans happily line up behind him remains to be seen, but everyone else is free to jump to whatever they want.
that if Beauprez or Tancredo want to run for Senate, they will not just run a clean campaign against this guy. He’s their worst nightmare.
They will do everything in their power to destroy him. They’ll do it to each other, Scott McInnis, or anyone else who they see as a roadblock; why wouldn’t they do it to someone they differ with on ideology?
Can’t wait for this primary though. It’s going to make 2008 CD-6 look like a walk in rainbow land.