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October 23, 2014 02:23 PM UTC

What Cory Gardner and Manti Te'o Have In Common

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The Denver Post's Lynn Bartels reports with the San Diego Chargers playing tonight at Mile High Stadium–ouch!

Catfishing is phenomenon of a person pretending to be someone they are not by fabricating an identity to lure someone into a relationship. One of the San Diego Chargers is Manti Te’o, the Notre Dame linebacker duped into an engagement with a woman who never existed and who reportedly died during the season.

Amy Runyon-Harms, executive director of ProgressNow Colorado, said Gardner is catfishing Colorado in his attempt to unseat Democratic Sen. Mark Udall. The group posted the web site CoryGardnerIsCatfishingColorado.com, which includes a fake profile of Gardner. Among the things he couldn’t live without: Crest White Strips, the Koch brothers, his signed copy of “Atlas Shrugged” and Obamacare. Snap!

From ProgressNow Colorado's press release:

"Colorado currently has our own catfishing scandal. US Senate candidate Cory Gardner has created a fake persona of his own with the goal of duping Colorado voters into a romance at the ballot box. His cons include supporting a federal Personhood bill that he claims doesn't exist, false claims that over-the-counter birth control would save women money, lies about his role in last year's government shutdown and his giant fib about supporting Colorado's green-energy economy that turned out to be completely false," said Amy Runyon-Harms, executive director of ProgressNow Colorado.

It's a story that still hasn't been fully explained: did Manti Te'o believe the fake dying Facebook girlfriend was real? Was it all a sympathy ploy to win the Heisman Trophy? The world has its suspicions, but Te'o will most likely take the truth to his grave–after a successful NFL career.

Cory Gardner may not be so lucky with his federal Personhood bill.

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6 thoughts on “What Cory Gardner and Manti Te’o Have In Common

  1. Mark Udall catfished the women of Colorado into thinking he cares about them. The truth is, he only cares about their votes.

    Seen the polls? Udall's gender division strategy is failing…

    1. You make about as much sense as the Denver Post. The Post claims it doesn't support Personhood, but endorses the Personhood candidate. 

      You claim Mark Udall does not support women. Mark Udall votes against personhood policy and gives women the freedom to make their own decisions. 

      Of course, most people expect nothing less from Tea Party types – don't like American History? White wash it.

      Don't like universal background checks? Claim they don't work.

      Don't like women's freedom? Claim Mark Udall is against women's freedom and that he's the real catfisher. 

      This "I know you are but what am I campaign" from Gardner and his supporters is childish, immature and cowardly … but to be expected. 

       

       

  2. Sittin' by the water
    Starin' at the stream
    Tell me, honey, are there any
    Catfish in your dreams

    Danny O'Keefe — "Catfish"

    Now: Con Man Cory Gardner — "Koch Sucker Blues"

  3. This strongly echoes the no to Gardner portion of a Udall endorsement I posted to Facebook today, minus calling it 'catfishing'.

    Gardner's main assets are that he's politically astute enough to try to hide his positions so that he looks like some who's more moderate than he really is, and charismatic enough for it to work on a lot of people.

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