Excerpts from the Aurora Sentinel’s endorsement of Democrat Joe Miklosi for CD-6 today:
While both Republican Mike Coffman and Democrat Joe Miklosi offer solid options as the city’s first inclusive representative to Congress, Miklosi is the best choice for Aurora.Here’s why. While Aurora has certainly become a vastly diverse place, Miklosi is much closer aligned with how the majority of residents think about important issues Congress will undertake…over the past few years, Coffman’s politics and values have pulled away from those that the majority of Aurora residents hold dear. Coffman opposed ending the ludicrous Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell anti-gay policy in the military, even as most Americans, most Aurora residents and most members of the military and Pentagon wanted the discrimination against gays to end. Miklosi supported ending that discrimination…
Coffman has increasingly aligned himself with radical anti-abortion groups and measures and then tried to distance himself for political expediency. Aurora voters have a strong history of respecting a woman’s privacy when it comes to reproductive and all medical issues. So does Miklosi.
Coffman has made it clear he strongly opposes the now fading DREAM Act in Congress, which struggles here in the state as well. While he insists there is room for allowing illegal immigrants to keep some American jobs as part of comprehensive immigration reform, he has said he will not support efforts that allow some form of amnesty, even to children of illegal immigrants. That’s not how the majority of Aurora residents feel about the issue. That includes Miklosi…
Coffman has been a hardworking and thoughtful lawmaker and government administrator for many years, but on so many issues important to all of us, Aurora has moved on, and Coffman has not. Aurora has matured to become a vibrant, appealing and progressive community, a welcoming home to all Americans and visitors. Coffman no longer represents the wishes of the community’s diverse and tolerant population. In fact, his record in Congress during the past two years shows that he too often opposes what most Aurorans stand for. And that’s wrong. [Pols emphasis]
Mike Coffman may have represented the Aurora of his 1950′s childhood home, but Joe Miklosi better represents it now. Coffman is out of touch, and Aurorans know it. Joe Miklosi is cares about Aurora, and we will elect him on November 6th.
The Aurora Sentinel has a circulation smaller than a guy with a sandwich board on the 16th Street Mall. Maybe Joe should find himself one of those?
I get it that corporate types don’t understand the concept of “the will of the people” so let me explain this to you slowly. Joe Miklosi is a man of the people, for the people, by the people. Coffman is a corporate sell-out who wouldn’t know what a real constituent if one fell on his head. The Aurora Sentinel is the hometown newspaper in Coffman’s own hometown. When your hometown can’t stand you, that’s saying something.
The people will decide then.
One of them being my otherwise Republican-leaning wife. Her comment to me this afternoon (after getting Miklosi’s “Stone Age” mailer) was “Why do Republicans want to take women’s rights back to the ’50′s?”
Case in point — my own mother, who bore eight healthy children from the 1930′s to the 1950′s needed an abortion (highly illegal in 1940′s Georgia).
Fortunately, our family doctor, who delivered several of us, was kind and understanding, and brave enough to risk his license and his freedom to provide a safe procedure that preserved her ability not only to live, but to bear all the rest of her children.
Bet me now.
Any two of three.
CD7, CD6, President.
I usually check in with the Sentinel once a week–it’s the only paper local to the district worth a darn. Good, straightforward fact based endorsement. It’s most welcome and will be referred to by pundits and Joe’s campaign, to good effect.
This endorsement is right on. My mother lives in the Adams part of Aurora and was mad as a wet cat that she got cut into in Coffman’s district.The whole neighborhood is.That part of town is not the lily-white suburb it once was or that Coffman is comfortable in.They adored Perlmutter out there and will work hard to keep Coffman from representing them.
Is this the part of Adams, near the airport, not really in Aurora but close?
I didn’t think that would make news here, but that’s okay.
I suspect the endorsement of the Denver Post, Aurora Mayor Steve Hogan, and every other mayor in the new 6th CD will resonate far beyond the run-of-the-mill endorsement of the Democrat candidate by the Aurora Weekly Reader… who, by the way, endorsed political neophyte John Flerlage over Mike Coffman in 2010. Surprise, surprise!
Most Aurorans are too busy raising their families and working long hours to even know who Steve Hogan is.