I wrote a few weeks ago about Tom Tancredo and his unlikely bid for Governor in Colorado. He had entered the race saying Scott McInnis and Dan Maes couldn’t win because they each carried too much baggage. McInnis then lost to Maes in the GOP Primary, probably because of plagiarism baggage. And soon Maes was having all sorts of trouble himself.
First a supporter said she’d given him $300 in cash because he said he was behind on his mortgage. He said it was a campaign contribution, but accepting more than $100 in cash for a campaign is illegal in Colorado, plus the woman’s gift doesn’t show up in Maes’ contribution reports with the Secretary of State. Big oops.
Now we find he apparently embellished about a job he had with the Liberal, Kansas Police Department. He had claimed to have worked undercover for the Kansas Bureau of Investigation. The Denver Post reported the story today, and it frankly looks like Maes has trouble telling the truth at times.
Democrat John Hickenlooper is the front runner according to the latest Rasmussen poll, but voters don’t seem excited about him, Maes or Tancredo. Today former Senator Hank Brown (R) withdrew his support for Maes, saying he’ll look for someone else.
Friday is the drop dead date. That’s the day the ballots must be finalized. So either Maes must drop out, to be replaced by someone chosen by the GOP vacancy committee, or Hickenlooper wins–or something totally unprecedented happens. Maybe a write-in race.
With trust of newspapers between 20 and 25 percent and TV news only a little higher, I wonder how people get informed. Increasingly I think the answer is each other.
Facebook and Twitter offer a kind of headline news, which is fed by many mainstream media sources. But complex concepts sent out in chunks not much [...]
I don’t always agree with our President. In fact most of the time I disagree with his decisions.
I was against the GM bail out, I’m disgusted with the health care law and I’m sick of him apologizing to the rest of the world for America being America.
But I love candid speech, whether I agree or [...]
Tom Tancredo’s entrance into the Colorado governor’s race shocked me. I don’t always agree with him, but he certainly has never suffered from that thing I dislike most about politicians — obfuscation. No, Tancredo says what he means and makes a lot of sense on many issues.
Kind of like Ross Perot did back in 1992.
Rasmussen [...]
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The race between Repubs Jane Norton and Ken Buck in the Colorado Senate race has turned messy with the issues taking a back seat to name calling. When will the candidates learn?
If my finger is on the pulse of the voters (and it may not be) I think Buck wins the nomination.
Here’s why:
In what I [...]
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The debacle over the resignation (she says she was pressured to resign) of an (until now) obscure bureaucrat in the Agriculture Department in Georgia has again raised some fascinating questions about the White House and President Obama’s beliefs.
Shirley Sherrod resigned after a carefully edited video surfaced from decades ago in which she made what appeared to be [...]
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I read with interest a few days ago an AP article written by Bob Christie titled: Enforcement at heart of Ariz. immigration lawsuit
It was a thoughtful article with a Phoenix dateline that made these key points:
The Arizona immigration enforcement law is similar to federal immigration law
Federal immigration officials want to be able to selectively enforce [...]
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The U.S. Supreme Court recently affirmed the right of citizens in Illinois to have guns. I expected that. What amazed me was that the vote was 5-4. They used the 14th Amendment to back up another ruling they made two years ago about the 2nd Amendment. The vote in 2008 was also 5-4.
That means 9 [...]
The Labor Department has released a Public Service Announcement aimed at illegal aliens. Labor Secretary Hilda Solis tells them they have a right to be paid fairly, whether documented or not.
It is possible this is a very clever way to shut down businesses that employ illegals.
More likely, this is a case of a government official [...]
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We all knew a national health care plan would mean more intrusion, more rules, and more scrutiny into our lives, didn’t we?
We’ll take care of you. We’ll tell you what to eat, what to do, and eventually what to think. For your own good.
But I hoped and continue to hope I was wrong. But here’s [...]
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