(Ladies and gentlemen, your Congressman Doug Lamborn. – promoted by Colorado Pols)
POLS UPDATE: Mother Jones posts this clarification:
*Clarification: Gunnoe was not approached by Rep. Lamborn’s staff, as the story originally stated, according to his spokesperson Catherine Mortensen. After unsuccessful attempts to get comment from Lamborn’s office on Monday, Mother Jones was contacted by Mortensen on Tuesday afternoon; she confirmed Lamborn decided that the photo should be barred from the presentation-but did so without looking at it himself, instead relying on the recommendation of Natural Resources Committee staff, who also contacted the police.
Judge for yourself–here’s a link to the photo. Original post follows.
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via Mother Jones.
When award-winning West Virginia anti-coal activist Maria Gunnoe went to Washington, DC, last week, she was prepared for obstructionist tactics. She was prepared to face icy stares and hard questions from Republican lawmakers. She was not prepared to be branded a pedophile.
Stay classy Doug.
Full story: Big Coal Advocate Lamborn Smears Activist With KiddiePorn Charge
if you can’t win the argument on merit then attack the messenger. Lamborn is disgusting.
http://www.katiefalkenberg.com…
And not at all surprising that Lamborn refused to even look at it.
Lamborn, at the very least, tacitly gave the green light to his staff for this absurdly over-the-top reaction of calling in the cops.
only the information I want it to have or get yourself investigated. Simple
That would be a great headline if it were true! Except, if you read the linked story (and other coverage in The Denver Post), you’ll see that isn’t how it happened. It was committee staff that got upset about the photo and approached the cops, who then detained the activist and questioned her.
He never looked at the image personally, but did approve the Natural Resource Committee staff’s (re)actions.
he has a porn tester on staff screen all info and entertainment before he views it.
RG, why is your first instinct always – always – to make excuses for Republicans?
It’s weird. If you like I’ll list the recent examples.
was that the image actually showed water pollution from coal mining, and that couldn’t be allowed to enter the Congressional record.
Same way it worked for the contraceptive testimony. Best to prevent the testimony from actually happening, lest someone quote it from the record later on.
The Rorschach test is a “projective test” that is sometimes “employed to detect underlying thought disorder.” [Wikipedia] I see an unfortunate child subjected to pollution from mining. What to make of Lamborn’s refusal to even view the photo as evidence for an issue over which he has oversight?
Seriously the water is so murky you’d have to study the picture like the zepruder film to see genitalia
who look for any excuse to avoid dealing with facts, Ms. Gunnoe undermined her position with such a shocking photo. The committee would have had a harder time if the photo had been of dead birds or contaminated sinks.
Perhaps Lamborn’s lackeys would have rejected all photos but provocative photos are sure to get the boot so it begs the question: Did Ms. Gunnoe submit the photos knowing that it would cause controversy and lead to more public exposure because it became a controversy or was she so naive as to think the Republicans would be compelled to look at “liberal biased” reality?
Lamborn spokeswoman sez that the subcommittee staffers who decided the photo was porn, and who called the police, were at fault, not Lamborn’s staff.
But since he chaired the hearing, committee staff was answering to him.
how Lamebrain’s staff prevents him from reading troubling shit. Guess I know where my emails have gone