(Promoted by Colorado Pols)
As University of Colorado students continued their campaign for more tickets to the Republican presidential debate at the CU-Boulder campus next week, ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s largest online progressive advocacy organization, delivered a petition to CU President Bruce Benson’s office calling for 50% of the tickets to the debate to be made available to CU students.
“We’ve heard from hundreds of University of Colorado students, stakeholders, and other local citizens who are outraged that CU’s reputation for open and honest dialogue is being misused,” said ProgressNow Colorado executive director Amy Runyon-Harms. “To promote this debate on the University of Colorado campus while locking CU students out who only want to fill the arena’s thousands of empty seats is an insult to those students and our whole community.”
In August, ProgressNow Colorado called for 50% of the tickets to the October 28th Republican presidential debate be distributed to University of Colorado students. After debate organizers announced that only 1,000 of the Coors Events Center’s 11,000+ seats would be used for the debate, and that only a token number of those limited seats would be offered to CU students, ProgressNow Colorado called for an additional 1,000 empty seats in the arena to be made available for students.
“All of the excuses offered by debate organizers have fallen flat,” said Runyon-Harms. “There is no reason why 1,000 empty seats in the Coors Events Center can’t be made available to students. The cameras and broadcast equipment don’t take up that much space. Nothing about the setup of the stage for the debate makes this modest request unworkable. All that’s left is the fact that everyone knows, but debate organizers can’t acknowledge: they are afraid of what these out-of-touch Republican presidential candidates are going to say.”
“It’s not too late,” said Runyon-Harms. “Our message to the RNC, CU, and CNBC is simple: prove the skeptics wrong by opening up 1,000 empty seats to CU students. Or face the embarrassment of students being denied access to an event on their own campus overshadowing the debate itself.”
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Benson's lackey looks SO happy to see you, Amy! 🙂
Libtards just want to crash the debate.
There should probably be a warning: Crash the debates if you dare but, like watching Fox, it will only make you stupider.
Does A.C. have a new sock puppet?
I frankly applaud the notion of allowing 1,000 CU students to attend — IF the tickets are distributed by the campus Young Republicans. This is not a nonpartisan or bipartisan event and I'm sure Democrats would not relish a thousand conservative activists crashing their own debates.
"This is not a nonpartisan or bipartisan event" Isn't that the problem? Since the faculty, students, taxpayers, and voters were never consulted about allowing a clearly partisan event to be held at our state's flagship public university, shouldn't students of any political stripe be able to attend?
So is Moderatus really gone? I thought he would have quickly gotten over his snit-fit re: Julie Williams and her son just so hecould come in here and rant about the investigation which Trey Gowdy and company conducted today.
My bet is he took the week off, and spent all day today watching the proceedings in his mommy's basement with his box of Kleenex …
So when do we get the hearing on veteran suicides? (22/day)
It's interesting. I read this and thought poor, little Moddy crying his eyes out. And then I thought, oh no, that could be something else too. I'm guessing that more of the former happened than the latter. Or maybe I'm just hoping.
Who knows?
He's in an awkward position. He's got to figure out how to quit being pretend mad about our non-existent attacks on the poor disabled son and, even worse, it turns out the son's own mother is the one exploiting him for political purposes by fabricating sob stories. He has to do this without actually admitting he was wrong about anything or owes anyone an apology. He'll probably just let some time pass and come back without ever referring to any of it again.
He'll probably just let some time pass and come back without ever referring to any of it again.
I agree; that's probably how he handles it. But he's missing his prime time Benghazi moments.
If you were a rightie, wouldn't you want to miss it? Can't claim to have seen the whole thing. Who could take all 10 or 11 hours. Besides HRC. From everything I did see and all the recaps from various sources, she was the only one to retain her cool through the whole thing. The Republicans looked like tiny, creepy, silly, partisan brats.
I didn't hear any questioning from them that had anything remotely to do with trying to find out what went wrong and what needs to be done to avoid future tragedies. Of course all that was pretty much covered in every previous report anyway.
This was strictly about trying to create gottcha moments to be run in continous loops all over cable now and in future GOP ads. They apparently failed to produce even one. All they got was HRC looking presidential and in command and themselves looking like fools. Pretty sure that's not what they or modster were hoping for.
Yes, even I will admit it. I'm no fan but she did great. They've been salivating for months over the prospect of using this day of testimony to rip her a new one and I expect they accomplished the opposite. Her numbers will go up as a direct result of the completely unflattering contrast between themselves and their and their intended victim.
oops. Editing timed out! One "and their" will do and God knows what else I missed!
Our
bravelittletruth sayerpro-lifer pro-birther did the same disappearing act on the weekend of the Oregon shootings. He was back on Monday as if nothing had happened.Moddy probably thinks that Hillary's operatives tricked Julie Williams into making that video. You know because there is a vast left-wing conspiracy to victimize conservatives by making them look stupid, venal and clueless.
Well, gee, how else can you explain it? Especially after today's (oops, it's not quite today anymore) hearing? If those R committee members weren't tricked into sounding like such morons, how else do you explain what happened?
"how else do you explain what happened?
Simple. They are morons and for Moddy and his ilk, that's a plus, not a minus. Explain George W. Bush in any other way, than that Amuuurriccca loves them some stupid.