Walker Stapleton Term Limits Rally a Very Expensive Fizzle

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by: Colorado Pols

Walker Stapleton.

That was the scene on the West Steps of the Colorado state capitol building today, as Treasurer Walker Stapleton’s long-hyped rally for congressional term limits took place on an unseasonably warm Thursday afternoon. As we’ve discussed in this space and readers have seen in site ads for weeks, this event had a very large promotional budget. After all the thousands of dollars spent advertising the rally and especially Stapleton’s attendance, the estimated 150 or so who turned out is nothing short of an embarrassment (unless you consider $700 per person a good investment).

Today’s rally for congressional term limits always struck us as a contrivance, a vehicle for Stapleton to get face time ahead of his widely-expected run for governor in 2018. It’s clever in theory given that the term-limits pitch has a defiant anti-politician ring to it, which could feed off the large protests against President Donald Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress since January. But as soon as you find out this is all just a ploy to boost George W. Bush’s cousin electorally, it loses its rebellious allure.

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8 thoughts on “Walker Stapleton Term Limits Rally a Very Expensive Fizzle”

bullshit! says:

March 9, 2017 at 1:24 pm

I love that doofus pic of Walker.

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Moderatus says:

March 9, 2017 at 3:59 pm

Walker isn't my first choice, but it's nice to see that Colorado Pols is scared of him.

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1. Davie says:
  
  March 9, 2017 at 4:14 pm
  
  Right, just like how they tremble every time they see one of your posts. he he he!
  
  You really are the village idiot around here.
  
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2. unnamed says:
  
  March 9, 2017 at 5:02 pm
  
  Moldy. You might want to get to a doctor quick. Trumpcare doesn't cover rectal cranial inversions.
  
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3. spaceman65 says:
  
  March 11, 2017 at 8:23 am
  
  No one is, or could be, afraid of that lunkhead.
  
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Alan says:

March 9, 2017 at 4:34 pm

I think Walker’s got a more fundamental problem.

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1. JohnInDenver says:
  
  March 9, 2017 at 5:36 pm
  
  Alan:
  
  Just to maintain the Colorado connection, I think you could do the same "morph" gif with the former state resident Neil Bush, remembered by some of us as a key person in the Silverado Savings & Loan and later noted for some of his other business connections.
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Bush
  
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  1. mamajama55 says:
    
    March 9, 2017 at 6:11 pm
    
    I'm seeing some family resemblance with great-grandpaBen Stapleton, four time Denver Mayor and Klansman from 1923-1931 and then again 1935 -1947. Walker Stapleton didn't fall far from that tree.
    Maybe it's the clueless look or the entitled air.
    
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