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October 10, 2010 07:04 PM UTC
19 Comments
I’ve watched the College Republicans group here at DU try to handle the same situation. Back in September, they had a table to distribute yardsigns and literature to supporters – and nothing on the gubernatorial race. I even asked if they had a Maes sign, and they proceeded to roll their eyes.
I think that’s about all you can do as a representative of the GOP. It’s going to be a good year for Republicans, but openly supporting Maes makes you look silly/unprofessional, and openly supporting Tancredo breaks with your responsibility to the party. Better to just stuff your fingers in your ears while in public and then vote for Tancredo once you get home.
First, I hope everyone knows that judges in Colorado are not partisan, and are not allowed to campaign for office. Instead, they periodically stand for retention election, and are very limited in what they can do/say as part of the retention election process.
Sounds as if everything the GOP distributed in your county was partisan candidate material – totally appropriate. How did Clear the Bench get into that mix? Do most Republicans view the Clear the Bench effort as a Republican goal? Just curious.
When (and only after) someone starts campaigning against them, as is the case with CTB. They just choose not to. I debated about asking the chief justice about this a couple of days ago, when she spoke to a panel I was visiting. Decided against it, though.
but “they just choose not to.” Even if a judge faces an active campaign against their retention, they are very limited in what they can do in a retention campaign. They are not at all like a typical candidate for partisan office. If you haven’t already, read through Canon 4 in the “Colorado Code of Judicial Conduct.”
http://www.courts.state.co.us/…
Because of the Code, judges are at a huge disadvantage if someone comes after them in a retention election.
… it’s what the constitution says a chief executive — president or governor — does. It basically means carry out and enforce the laws. In this context, it seems pretty clear Maes is saying that he’ll aggressively enforce immigration laws. There’s a lot to mock about Maes, but his use of the perfectly appropriate term “execute the laws” isn’t one of them.
It’s a perfectly reasonable thing to say to a politico, or someone who is well-versed on the constitution. To put it into a flyer going out to the average voter is something else – you want to use much more basic explanations.
What else would the average voter infer from “execute current laws”?
The laws’ heads… or, um… electric chair!
Because when sportscasters say things like “the Broncos couldn’t execute on offense,” people assume that Kyle Orton experienced difficulties while trying to kill people.
There’s nothing insidery about the term.
It got put into the GOP packet because it’s John Andrews’ pet project. What a stupid piece of crap.
The initiative, I mean. I would never call John Andrews a stupid piece of crap.
but that’s just me (or my online persona.)
Richly ironic that the same outfit that cries for “clearing the bench” of all judges on the ground that some of them allegedly ignore the law, IGNORES its own laws requiring them to support their party’s nominees.
It’s a total violation of GOP rules and policies to include a flier for a non-GOP candidate who is actively opposing the official, actively-running GOP nominee.
But hey, who cares, right? The laws only count against other people.
… an Arapahoe County Republican, that is.
Don’t vote for either.
At least he’s got that going for him. 🙂