Former Vice President "Deadeye" Dick Cheney is in town tonight hosting a fundraiser for Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez at the swanky Cherry Hills Village home of Trish and Ken Green. Here's the invite, admission a bargain at $1,000 per couple to start:
We recognize that this is the time in a political campaign when it's best to look forward, not backwards, but let's face it–the Bush administration was Bob Beauprez's halcyon days of yore. So what's old is new again–much like Bob Beauprez himself!
One other issue that might make a Cheney/Beauprez fundraiser a bit uncomfortable is the fact that both Cheney and Beauprez received multiple draft deferments during the Vietnam war. Back in 2006, with the Iraq war raging, the issue of Beauprez's draft dodging did come up, as it did for Cheney while he was sending the next generation off to fight the "war on terror." Dodging the draft may not be quite the issue is was back in 2006, but then again, we don't see Dick Cheney every day either.
Being within the city limits of Cherry Hills Village, we assume there won't be any firearms discharges–and for an event featuring the only Vice President in history to have shot a hunting partner and then received an apology from the man he shot, that's good for the host's insurance coverage. Of course, they might tell Cheney all the orange being worn tonight is for the Broncos, but there are much more practical reasons.
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Darth Cheney, the most hated political figure of the last 15 years — patron saint of cowardly washed-up NeoCons, draft-dodgers, Ted Nugent fans and chickenhawks everywhere.
Yeah, this should go over well with Independents and unaffiliated voters…
I dare say I was one of the first to give the day glo hunter vest a political outlet in Colorado at a Jay Fawcett rally attended by Ken Salazar and a few others wayyyyyyyy back when in COS.
Even Cheney would appreciate that humor, no?
How does this work?
This appears to be an invitation from the Beauprez for Governor campaign, not some PAc, committee, 527, etc. The state limit on contributions is $1100/ couple.
What am I missing?
You aren't missing a thing. This would appear to be a violation of Colorado's campaign finance rules, but unless someone actually complains, there is no real teeth to the law. Nobody in the Secretary of State's Office is going to investigate this unless there is an official complaint.
http://www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/elections/CampaignFinance/files/CPFManual.pdf
That's some onerous shit, and poorly worded too, from a legal standpoint. Were I to complain, do I need to actually present evidence that Mr. and Mrs. So and So presented the campaign with a check in X amount that was cashed to account Z? Do I have subpoena power?
Sometimes Colorado Ethics Watch will take on the investigation and prosecution of campaign finance violation complaints.
What's ironic about Gessler's S o S rule you cited above is that he whined like a big baby about how much he had to shell out in legal expenses to defend himself against ethics violation accusations with CEW. Yet his office has an even more stringent rule.
The Dems ought to be lining up to praise Cheney for the support he gave to fighting Ebola.
Back in 2001, the US spent a grand total of $53M on studying the potential of various horrible diseases as biological terror threats. By 2014, that budget had grown to $1.6B. That’s an increase of 2,919% over a period of 13 Fiscal Years. So Congress has hatchet-jobbed this program to the point where the typical increase in spending per FY is only 130%. And there is an evil mastermind behind all of this – none other than Vice President Dick Cheney.
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, Cheney examined our responses to bio-terrorism and found our lack of effort in developing vaccines against potential viral weapons of terror disturbing. Bloomberg News describes the contributions that Dick Cheney’s foresight made to America’s defenses against exotic diseases below.
http://www.redstate.com/2014/10/27/dick-cheney-secured-money-spend-ebola-research/
Cheney is a war criminal and should be in the dock in The Hague. Period. End of Story.
Don't confuse the libs! Cheney is evil. EVIL!
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