Many of you will recall the scandal two years ago that resulted from Senate Republicans’ misuse of the Seal of the State of Colorado (usage of which is only allowable by the Secretary of State for official purposes, violation is a felony) on their decidedly unofficial partisan brochure website. The Rocky Mountain News reported at the time:
[Senate Minority Leader Andy] McElhany said he removed the Colorado seal from coloradosenatenews.com after Secretary of State Mike Coffman reminded party caucuses April 2 they can’t use the seal in communications.
It’s a felony to use the state seal for anything but official documents. [Pols emphasis]
This isn’t the first time Republicans violated the state’s strict rule about misusing the seal.
Former Republican Senate President John Andrews was forced to pull the seal from a GOP political Web site called coloradosenate.com in 2003…
“What concerns me is that a political committee is funding the creation of a Web site that purports to be a news and information site (that was) bearing the Colorado state seal,” said Chantell Taylor, director of Colorado Citizens for Ethics in Government.
Lesson learned, right?
Unfortunately, time seems to…well, unlearn all lessons. Which is another way of saying, Josh Penry’s Senate GOP has discovered Twitter!
You know the drill–take it down, blame the stupid intern (or Brad Jones) when the reporters/Secretary of State start calling. It’s only technically a felony, right? Obviously this isn’t a huge deal, but it is a little ridiculous that Republicans keep screwing it up. And the law is the law, or something.
They’ll be calling soon, we’d get on it.
UPDATE: Pulled. Thanks for reading, guys.
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The Republicans did the same thing in one of their first YouTube videos of the year (in the opening sequence):
So that’s a felony in 2003, another felony in 2007, and two more felonies in 2009?
What’s wrong with the law and order crowd, that they continue to perpetrate such flagrant and repeated violations of a fairly easy-to-understand law?
… does that mean they lose the right to vote?
http://coloradopols.com/showCo…
You actually had to wait until 4:12 pm to take a whack at Josh Penry? WTF, getting low on material?
I don’t take whacks at Josh Penry. He’s my hero. He was a quarterback, you know.
n/t
No, wait…..
Fire the illegal immigrant H1-B baby Seals first!!!
No, wait…..
Let’s get this trillion dollar spending bill passed quick so I can visit the Pelosi ancestors in Italy on taxpayer funds. We’ll save the baby Seals and get good P/R out of it…
No, wait…..
The fundamentals of our Seal are strong….
No, wait…..
Oh never mind. As long a you don’t shoot the Seals from airplanes you should be able to do what you want with ’em.
I can’t imagine what warped mind would even consider using baby seals for unofficial purposes.
They hate it and want to shrink it until it’s small enough to “drown in a bathtub.” But at the same time they love it – they want government power, they want to cloak themselves in the swords, shields and logos of government. I would love for someone to write a psychological analysis of today’s Republican Party.
I’ve done internet research on this topic in the past. (And for libs, too.)
The only matter of significance that I recall finding was some preliminary, in the author’s words, of dream analysis. Self-described as conservative or liberal, volunteers recorded their dreams and then third parties analyzed the dreams.
They found cons had many more nightmares and that dreams often involved things like running away from lions and similar. Libs had fewer nightmares and often “weird” dreams, dreams that were exploratory in nature, regardless of outcome.
Although the author didn’t assign values to these patterns, I have. Cons are afraid of the world and try to make structure to prevent bad things happening to them. They abhor unpredictability and the new. Libs feel relatively safe and are willing to try things just to see what might happen.
A thought of my own that came about after years of trying to fathom why so many Christians have no problem carrying arms and killing people is that they value authority above cognitive dissonance.
They went and removed the seal.
And replaced it with … this:
What the hell is that?
We’re thinking elephant once they get an actual replacement up, though they might want to focus group that.
a disappointed Brophy or a grinning Gardner — they’ve got plenty of those on file.
From Progress Now’s winners & losers (Penry was a loser, just look at him).
Two years hence, anyway, if that.
Little asshole and big asshole.
You’re welcome to assign meaning to either.