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Laundry List of Politicos Line Up Behind Kerr

If Brian Carroll and Andy Szekeres had any hopes that there would be at least a few elected officials backing Carroll’s intent to put Rep. Andy Kerr into a primary, they’re probably long gone now.

Kerr’s first e-mail invite to his high profile fundraising event at State Senator Pat Steadman’s home read like a who’s who of Colorado’s GLBT advocacy community.

The follow up e-mail, though, reads like a who’s who of Democratic politics:

Sen. Betty Boyd • Sen. Morgan Carroll • Hon. Terrance Carroll • Rep. Edward Casso • Rep. Lois Court • Rep. Rhonda Fields • Hon. Sara Gagliardi • Rep. Deb Gardner • Rep. Millie Hamner • Sen. Rollie Heath • Sen. Mary Hodge • Rep. Dickey Lee Hullinghorst • Sen. Mike Johnston • Rep. Matt Jones • Rep. Daniel Kagan • Rep. John Kefalas • Hon. Robin Kniech • Rep. Pete Lee • Rep. Claire Levy • Hon. Alice Madden • Rep. Beth McCann • Rep. Wes McKinley • Rep. Joe Miklosi • Hon. Dominick Moreno • Sen. John Morse • Rep. Dan Pabon • House Minority Leader Sal Pace • Hon. Dianne Primavera • Hon. Joe Rice • Hon. Andrew Romanoff • Rep. Su Ryden • Sen. Gail Schwartz • Senate President Brandon Shaffer • Rep. Judy Solano • Rep. John Soper • Rep. Nancy Todd • Rep. Max Tyler • Rep. Angela Williams • Rep. Roger Wilson • Rep. Dave Young

Anthony Aragon • David Beller • Brian Boyles • Mike Brewer • Bobby Clark & Shaun Cartwright • Brad Clark • D.J. Close • Adam Crowley • Will Coyne • Jessie Danielson • Lauri Dannemiller • Preston Dickey & Jon Corrigan • Adam Eichberg • Dennis Hamann • Phil Hayes • Andy Kabza • Courtney Law & Sonja Semion • Scott Martinez • Lynne Mason • Pete Maysmith • Bob Nogueira • Dr. Christopher Ott • Paul Rosenthal • Amy Runyon-Harms • Dan Schoen • Roger Sherman • Andrew Short • Jeff Thormodsgaard • Dr. Mark Thrun • Terry Todd • Ted Trimpa • Jamie Van Leeuwen & Matt Derrington • Jen Walmer • Benjamin Waters • Linda Weinerman • Darrell Watson & Mike Wenk • Julie Whitacre • Andy White • Karen Wick • Gary Wockner • Jess & Addison Woodrum

cordially invite you to a fundraiser in support of pro-equality hero

Andy Kerr

Kerr’s event is being co-hosted (even if honorarily) by nearly every noteworthy Democrat involved with the legislature in some capacity. If Carroll and company didn’t take the hint before, they’re certainly paying attention now. It’s a hard message to ignore: Democrats support Andy Kerr, and they don’t support Carroll’s primary challenge.  

Of course, Carroll probably does enjoy the implicit support of at least one state representative: Ken Summers. We’re sure the Republican is overjoyed at the prospects of Democratic in-fighting in the race to capture his seat.  

Hancock Denies Link to Prostitution Ring Five Days Before Election Day

Cross-posted from Colorado Pols



From Westword, via Complete Colorado:

The Denver mayor’s race has grown unexpectedly nasty, with frontrunner Michael Hancock being targeted with false claims that Tom Tancredo endorsed him and more. The latest? A Complete Colorado report that attempts to link Hancock to the Denver Players prostitution ring that spelled doom for Judge Edward Nottingham. Hancock’s campaign manager sees the report as utterly false and reprehensible.

Complete Colorado builds its story on a document on view below and accessible by clicking here. It’s basically a log sheet that lists a “John” referred to as “Mike Handcock,” a payment amount of $275 and the notation “Wrks4City.” Prior to launching his mayoral bid, Hancock was a city councilman.

Campaign manager Evan Dreyer confirms that the number listed on the document is the same as Hancock’s personal cell — a topic of conversation this morning on Peter Boyles’s KHOW talk show. Nonetheless, he stresses that the report is “categorically untrue,” adding, “Michael and the campaign have endured negative, false, deceptive attack after attack for months, so nobody should really be surprised at this. The thing that’s different about this one is just the personal nature of it, and how shameful it is.”

When we first saw this story yesterday on the hideously-designed conservative site Complete Colorado, we waited to weigh in while we considered the story and the source. Embedding a PDF of a mostly-blacked out document isn’t exactly a smoking gun, after all.

But the one thing that we kept coming back to as we considered the story is this: If these allegations are really just “a political hit job,” then why are they coming out now?

If you were anti-Hancock, or just preferred his opponent, Chris Romer, and you wanted to use this as a way to damage Hancock’s campaign for Mayor, why would you sit on this until less than a week to go before Election Day — particularly when the voting is all being done by mail? Today is the last day that you can still mail your ballot and feel assured that it will arrive at the Denver Clerk’s office in time to be counted — there’s simply not enough time for this story to have a significant impact on the outcome of the Mayor’s race. If you wanted to use this story to impact the race for Mayor, you needed to put it out last week at the latest. We still need to see more proof to believe this story, but the too-late timing of its release actually makes it slightly more plausible.

All of this got us thinking about this story not in terms of the race for Mayor but about what comes next. If this story is true — and that’s a big “if” — and Hancock ends up winning the election on Tuesday…then what? Hancock has talked frequently about his plan, for example, to hire a new Police Chief and Manager of Safety, but he’d have a tough time legitimately overhauling the Denver Police Department if he himself was involved with a notorious prostitution ring. If this story is true, Hancock would step into office with one hand tied behind his back — and that’s assuming he would even make it to the inauguration. The calls for Hancock to step down would begin immediately if more came out about this story.

With just a few days to go until the votes are tallied for Mayor, this story is unlikely to have much of an impact on the outcome of the race. But that doesn’t mean it is necessarily any less significant.

Unlike Boyles, right-wing Christian radio host Enyart apologizes for being a birther

KHOW talk show host Peter Boyles, you recall, didn’t flinch when Obama released his birth certificate last month, saying he had no intention of backing away from the story. But Bob Enyart, who hosts “Bob Enyart Live,” weekdays on Colorado “Colorado’s Christian Station,” KLTT 670 AM, gave up on birtherism after the Presidential announcement. Enyart […]

Dan Caplis vs. Peter Boyles: Battle of the Clear Channel A-Holes

Is Dan or Peter the bigger a-hole? Hard to say. They both are so utterly consumed by their hatred of Barack Obama – not just disagreement with his policies, but outright frothing hatred for the man – that they consistently go off the deep end. Cases in point: Peter Boyles seems to be the last […]

Peter Boyles, with King and Tancredo on air with him, rips Cory Gardner

(A few swift kicks to the groin of Cory Gardner – promoted by Colorado Pols) Emotions have been building all week since congressional candidate Cory Gardner canceled a fundraiser that would have featured Iowa Rep. Steve King, and the subsequent decision by the Northern Colorado Tea Party to disinvite King from a rally. But things […]

Bad Idea, Made Even Worse

As the Denver Post reports:

A initiative on the November ballot aims to toughen Denver’s impound ordinance, guaranteeing that people caught driving without a license will end up paying a $2,500 bond to get the car out of the impound lot, even if a valid license is sitting at home on the counter…

The Denver vehicle impound law that voters passed last year was designed to keep unlicensed drivers off the road. It gives police officers the ability to use their discretion about whether to impound a car.

If this new initiative passes in November, police officers will be required to impound the car of every driver without a license.

City Council member Doug Linkhart said that city impound lots are overflowing with vehicles of people who cannot afford to get them out…

Linkhart said that Denver police officers are opposed to the law and the initiative.

“Their job, by definition, is discretion,” Linkhart said.

What this really comes back to is illegal immigrant hysterics, of course, but it’s still unusual to see this plainly counterproductive a measure make the ballot. Peter Boyles and half a dozen Minuteman crackpots may think this is a good idea, the rest of us have left our wallet on the counter enough times to know better. A measure drafted totally ignorant of its effects–the way only real crazies can draft them. Doug Bruce, call him what you will, knew what he was doing.

Between this overkill nonsense and Craig Silverman calling for people who “look like a Muslim” to have their “puchases tracked,” we think some serious getting of a grip is in order, folks.

Posted from Colorado Pols.

Hosting Philip Berg, KHOW’s Boyles and Martino allowed falsehoods about Obama’s birth certificate

On the October 22 broadcast of The Troubleshooter and the October 23 broadcast of The Peter Boyles Show, 630 KHOW-AM’s Peter Boyles and Tom Martino, respectively, uncritically allowed Pennsylvania attorney Philip J. Berg to repeat the discredited smear that Sen. Barack Obama has not released a valid birth certificate establishing he was born in the […]

Dave Williams, Vickie Tonkins Accused of Criminal Tampering With Delegate Process

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) This story originally appeared in The Colorado Times Recorder. According to a news release, a criminal complaint was filed today with the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s office by Colorado Congressional District 5 candidate Joshua Griffin, who is alleging that El Paso County Chair Vickie Tonkins and Colorado GOP Chair — and […]

George Brauchler Running for District Attorney

It’s official: George Brauchler is once again running for office; he filed for the brand-new 23rd Judicial District Attorney race yesterday. Rumors about his entry have been circulating for months, sometimes even fed by Brauchler himself, who would avoid making any definitive statements when callers to his KNUS morning radio show would occasionally ask him […]

Civil War: Dave Williams Ghost-Writes Dick Wadhams Hit Job?

A guest op-ed appeared in the Colorado Springs Gazette last Tuesday, ostensibly written by freshman whack-right Republican state Rep. Ken “Skin” DeGraaf and castigating former Colorado Republican Party chairman Dick Wadhams for Wadhams’ increasingly intense criticism of the current party chairman, former Rep. Dave “Let’s Go Brandon” Williams: Dick Wadhams, although a former Chairman of the […]

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