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September 17, 2013 04:06 PM UTC
28 Comments
$50
Caldera is not going to jail, and if fined, in the end it will not be more than $50.
Why so cynical? I admit I was, but this changes things. Caldara went too far.
He might plea his way out of a felony, but this case needs to be prosecuted as a deterrent to other vote fraudsters. This was a seriously bad move for Caldara and all the Republicans who defended him, and he should not be spared the limit of the law.
GLWT.
Lots of guilty criminals don't go to jail. He'll have a good lawyer. Or two. (no one who posts here). ANd just like that lawyer who blatantly plagerized form a CO Supreme Court judge, and got paid for it, he'll be "exonerated."
Great news. Book him, Dan-o.
You guys laugh at Gessler when he turns people over to the DA, but we're supposed to accept this one report as gospel??
Innocent until proven guilty, libs.
Stupid until proven otherwise, enthreebee.
Har de, fucking, Har!
Caldera is guilty as fuck when he casted the first ballot.
Sorry, but Caldera's facing prison time with the promise of making sure that his time is painful and miserable. And he won't get to vote for a long time as a convicted felon. And won't be allowed to legally own guns again.
Sorry n3b, but this is a lost cause to continue to defend that fucking moron who should not be breathing our air.
Innocent until proven guilty is a legal concept, not a moral one. It means he's entitled to a trial before he's penalized under the law. But ordinary people can plainly see that Caldara is guilty as hell, and nothing about our legal system says people, who are not the government, can't draw conclusions from the plain facts in front of their face.
We laugh at Gessler because he's a ridiculous partisan SOB. Just like we laugh at you.
Well- there's "innocent" and there's innocent.
And then there's not guilty. The way I read the law, what Caldara said he did was illegal – and he admitted publicly he did it. I'm not accusing him of anything he hasn't already said he did.
He should be found guilty, and sentenced to whatever term he earned, plus make sure his time is miserable and extended for another 25 years. Involuntarily.
Sutter is facing an election year next year, and his ass will be kicked out if he does not do his job and prosecute him to the fullest, despite the same ideology as his other moron is. And I have not been satsified of Sutter's work, and would like him thrown out and replaced with someone who's more progressive.
And yes, I want every Republican to drink fracked water, and Frackenlooper to suck on it, big time. Thanks to the floods, we don't even know if our water is clean.
It's good to see that you're not over-reacting.
He even announced his intention to commit fraud. The point was to show how easy it is to vote fraudulently. Now all of a sudden he was really planning to move to C Springs and leave his kids behind in Boulder until the flood happened? Nothing very serious will happen to him and the buck stops with partisan hack/crook in his own right Gessler but I hope it at least causes him a lot of inconvenience and expense.
clean water?
Upstream from the floods – more or less.
Downstream form the Arsenal, the Flats, any of the open sewers and "no flush zones", flooded fracking tanks, fracked and flooded wells, damaged pipelines (Parachute- wayyy befor the flood) checmically treated golf courses, and other known hazards: in your dreams.
A. It's Suthers.
B. He's term-limited. He's not facing an election. The voters won't get a chance to kick his ass out.
Hawkeye, maybe you missed the news that Boulder's pipeline to the sewage treatment plant failed and 90% of Boulder's sewage was going straight into the creek? (I haven't heard any updates on this, BTW.)
The really bad stuff in oil/gas (e.g., benzene) tends to be volatile and evaporate pretty quickly. Raw sewage? Not so much.
I wouldn't be upset if a jury lets him go. He did, after all, cast a blank ballot, and for all his delusional nature, he did so in an effort to make a political point, not actually have his vote counted in the result. But it would be very good to see him prosecuted, rather than let off because he's an insider with political connections.
As I said on another thread, it doesn't matter how or if Caldara marked his ballot–he cast a ballot. To claim that a blank ballot somehow averts a crime is to argue that how one votes makes a difference on whether or not one violated an election law. How one marks ones ballot can get you jailed or killed in some countries–it should not matter in the US. And it is a secret ballot. Once cast, it can't be traced to an individual voter, and is handled like any other ballot (including others that might be blank). Caldara cast a ballot in violation of the law. That is all that matters.
Caldara cast a ballot. Doesn't matter what votes were or were not on it. After all, ballots are secret, and once cast no ballot can be traced to an individual voter. There is no way to prove–by law there is to be no way to find out–how an individual ballot was cast. The fact that Caldara showed his ballot as blank makes no difference–he cast a ballot.
To claim that a blank ballot somehow averts a crime is to argue that how one votes makes a difference on whether nor not one violated an election law. I don't think we want to go there–that's the realm of police states and dictatorships.
– See more at: http://coloradopols.com/my-comments#sthash.xLeDFhrx.dpuf
Sorry about the repetition. I tried to cut and paste. It didn't show up in the editor so I rewrote, but then it pasted when I posted. Guess I don't understand how this works.
The best part about Caldara's stupid stunt is that, if convicted, he'll join Doug Bruce in the penalty box, and that will keep him out of politics for a while. But will we miss hating him?
He's nothing but a low-down, double-dealing, backstabbing, larcenous perverted worm! Hanging's too good for him. Burning's too good for him! He should be torn into little bitsy pieces and buried alive!
Channeling your inner Yosemite Sam? 🙂
Close. It is a cartoon. Hanover Fist from Heavy Metal. I just couldn't resist…
nice.
I used to buy it all the time… nowadays I glance through once in a while. Still a great magazine.
Good
Nyborgmovie!Once again voter fraud. And, once again it is a Republican. The cases of voter fraud are all Republicans, no masses of non-citizens voting, just Republicans committing criminal acts.