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July 01, 2009 04:38 PM UTC

What Are You Doing This Independence Day?

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  • by: Colorado Pols

As the Grand Junction Sentinel reports, Senate candidate Ken Buck and all-but-announced gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry are throwing a party.

A tea party, actually.

A Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate seat will speak on Independence Day to a Grand Junction tea party.

Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck will speak at the 7 p.m. event. Buck is the second potential Senate candidate to speak to a Grand Junction tea party. Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier spoke to a tea party April 15 in Lincoln Park.

Frazier and Buck are considering runs against U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet, a Democrat who was appointed by Gov. Bill Ritter to replace Ken Salazar, who now serves as interior secretary.

The Western Slope Conservative Alliance is organizing the tea party at the old Mesa County Courthouse, 544 Rood Ave.

Other speakers at the tea party will be state Sen. Josh Penry and state Reps. Steve King and Laura Bradford, all Mesa County Republicans.

Even though Buck is the nominal headliner, all eyes will be on Josh Penry after rumors circulated early last month that he would announce his run for governor at this event. Penry, as you know, is very fond of the “tea party” for podium-and-crowd shots (see photo right), and the ardent conservatives who flock to them love Penry right back–Penry even recorded a video message to local attendees at Fox News host Glenn Beck’s “We Surround You Friday” event back in March, where Beck tearfully warned the audience that he “can’t debunk” the FEMA concentration camp myth, and that America “is headed towards socialism, totalitarianism, beyond your wildest dreams.”

Will Saturday be the day Penry’s Long March begins?

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23 thoughts on “What Are You Doing This Independence Day?

  1. If I were Josh Penry, I would run against Bennet.  Two young guys, more of an even matchup.  He’ll look like a young, inexperienced upstart against Ritter.

          1. Don’t you love the latest rumor floating around, that Penry is secretly running for the Senate and Frazier is secretly gunning for Ritter?

            * I say that not to float an unfounded rumor, but to point out the ridiculousness of the notion, which has been raised a few times on here in recent days.

  2. Go back to the day of this stimulus protest at the Capitol and remember Mike Huttner’s feeble attempt at distraction. He held an embarassing press conference inside the capitol, paraded around a poster trying to link Penry with Bush and did everything he could to worm his way in to the story.

    http://www.denverpost.com/ci_1…  

    He even paid the person we’ve come to know as “swastika guy” to get up to the front of the crowd, get on stage and get a picture with Michelle Malkin.

    Pretty smart, actually.  

    1. “George Bush and the Republicans have spent eight years creating this mess,” Huttner said in an e-mail put out by his ProgressNow Colorado. “It’s about time Penry and the Republicans start cleaning up the mess that they created.”

      That’s the only reference to Mike Huttner in that article, so you should either find another link or way to prove that it’s not a lie, or just admit that what you wrote is a lie.

      The fact of the matter–the truth as it were–is that Swastika Guy was up there of his own volition, and Josh Penry was standing there without even blinking an eye that they were calling the President a Nazi.

      Man, I really thought I’d never have to talk about swastika guy again, but there you go. I think I owe someone a coke now.

      1. I recall our last president being consistently referred to as a Nazi. Did you blink when fellow liberals cried Hitler on Bush? Or was it ok because he was a Republican president?

  3. Although the teabagger’s claim that their “parties” are nonpartisan, they just can’t help themselves from revealing their deceitful fabrication.  Or, to put it another way, they are blatant liars.  And that is a nonpartisan assessment.  

  4. Notice that most, if not all, the guest speakers get their salaries directly from taxpayer dollars. So, if these Republican politicians were as serious about cutting taxes as they claim at these tea parties, they would be ripping up their paychecks.

    Right now, the image of Sen. Penry saying “no” to more taxes as he walks in a bank to cash his government payroll check…well, it would be priceless….

          1. I still wonder why it’s just dandy with the anti-government, anti-tax faithful that Josh and his lovely family make such a nice living out of the wallets of the faithful.

            But they do love their little prince.

    1. The Western Slope Conservative Alliance is organizing the tea party at the old Mesa County Courthouse, 544 Rood Ave.

      In a publicly funded building. Priceless?

      What is up with these “independent,” “anti-tax,” tea sippers? They can’t find a private building to meet in? Can’t they find any self-made, independent business owner to give a speech or two?

      1. I would tell you that the publicly funded building is fine. A good use of taxpayer’s money.

        It’s the gross overspending on an ever-expanding government with ever-expanding powers to limit freedoms that needs to be protested.

        1. If you’re NOT a “tea partier” then how would you know what you would tell me if you were one?

          So far you have demonstrated high accuracy at retyping ideological talking points. Bravo!

          Is there anything else occupying “the spaces between ?”

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