Gardner even dodges "friendliest audience you could ever hope for"

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by: Jason Salzman

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Rep. Cory Gardner (R).

KNUS radio host Dan Caplis said this morning that during 21 years on air, he's "never had trouble booking Cory Gardner."

But he said, "we have had, on a regular basis, trouble booking Cory Gardner for the last three-or-four months," even though his show has the "friendliest audience you could ever hope for."

"My concern is whether [the Gardner] campaign, and this is where I get back to tactics, has allowed Cory to be Cory, and whether they've had him out there enough. And whether it's been a play-not-to-lose strategy. That's my concern, because I think Cory is magnificent. I know even on this show, which is about the friendliest audience you could ever hope for, we have had on a regular basis trouble booking Cory Gardner for the last three or four months. And I've been on air 21 years, and I never had trouble booking Cory before."

Listen to Dan Caplis discuss his troubles booking Gardner for his friendly show.

You gotta give credit to Caplis, who sounds on air like he runs in elite Republican circles, for coming clean with his criticism of Gardner's media dodge.

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Conserv. Head Banger says:

September 16, 2014 at 1:25 pm

"has allowed Cory to be Cory……." Problem is, as I see it, Cory has been Cory far too much and in doing so, has trashed his campaign. His personhood and anti-contraception past has come back to haunt him.

Then there is his stealth plan to trash Colorado's very big outdoor recreation economy by advocating turning over the federal public lands; USFS and BLM; to the state. Someone needs to enlighten Cory that the federal public lands power our outdoor oriented economy.

Where are good Republicans like Rob Witwer when you need them? Heck, even Josh Penry would be a better candidate than Gardner the Clown.

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1. Denver Yankee says:
  
  September 17, 2014 at 7:04 am
  
  I wasn't aware of that aspect of Cory's agenda. That goes back over thirty years to the Sagebrush Rebellion.
  
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  1. MichaelBowman says:
    
    September 17, 2014 at 7:25 am
    
    And fast forward 30 years from the Sagebrush Rebellion and enter: Koch, Inc. Just follow the money, and the worn knee pads:
    
    The Koch Brothers Plan to Seize Public Land
    
    #SenatorQuidProKoch
    
    The Koch brothers’ paid ALEC to create several pieces of “model legislation” for Republican states to “demand that Congress extinguish title and government jurisdiction over public lands that are held in trust by the US federal government” such as ALEC’s “Eminent Domain Authority for Federal Lands Act.”
    
    Once a state seized federal government land, they were free to sell off the land to the Koch brothers to “unleash the energy” under the ground conservatives claimed the federal government had “gone amuck protecting with this Endangered Species Act” and “environmental protections” they had no authority to impose.
    
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Progressicat says:

September 16, 2014 at 1:41 pm

"Let Cory be Cory." Oh, he's been pretty f***ing Cory.

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ajb says:

September 16, 2014 at 5:23 pm

I don't think Cory needs the shovel that Caplis is offering. He's managing just fine without it.

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