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POLS UPDATE 2: As of late evening on July 2 the post has been deleted. The Huerfano GOP has still not replied to inquiries.
POLS UPDATE: Colorado Democrats jump in:
We’re calling on @WalkerStapleton to disavow his party’s anti-LGBT attack on @PolisforCO. Stapleton won his primary by embracing Trump & Tancredo, but as his party’s standard-bearer, he has a responsibility to disavow hateful attacks. #copolitics #cogov https://t.co/j1TquJF5CR pic.twitter.com/CGys51SLtk
— Colorado Dems (@coloradodems) July 2, 2018
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In a June 27 Facebook post published the morning after Colorado’s primary election, Huerfano County Republicans urge anyone considering not voting for GOP gubernatorial nominee Walker Stapleton to “rethink” their decision. They explained their reason for supporting Stapleton instead of his Democratic opponent in the next sentence.
“Jared Polis is an openly gay congressman who is very much against our American values.”
Included with the text of the post is a link to Congressman Polis’ voting record. It is unclear whether the Huerfano GOP believes him to be “very much against our American values” because he is “openly gay” or because of his voting record.
A call to Huerfano County Republican Chair Debi Sporleder was not returned. Sporleder has previously signed her name to Huerfano County Republicans Facebook posts. This story will be updated with any statements received.
The party account also liked a commenter’s claim that Polis “would head us willy nilly down the socialist anti-Christian path” and who criticized Polis for not mentioning “his gayness” in any campaign ads, despite “purporting to be proud of it.”
Huerfano County is southwest of Pueblo. It is part of House District 62, represented by Rep. Donald Valdez (D – La Jara) and Sen. Larry Crowder’s (R – Alamosa) Senate District 35.
The full text of the Facebook statement reads as follows.
If you are unsure about voting in the November elections or think you don’t want to vote for Walker Stapleton, rethink…..Jared Polis is an openly gay congressman who is very much against our American values. A no vote for Stapleton is a yes vote for Polis. Check out his voting record. I’ll make posts about Stapleton, too.
This story was originally published by the Colorado Times Recorder.
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No Gays in Huerfano. Only Real Men.…and sheep.
And the sheep are nervous.
I'd think they'd replace it with those wolves on a sheeps clothings…
According to David Dennison, if it were up to the man who is only ‘a heartbeat away’, there wouldn’t be gays anywhere (although I assume those in the Republican caucus would be safe).
Motto of the Republican conference:
Don't ask, don't tell
Remember this loon? Did she escape from Huerfano County or did some of Nutter's bad seed find it's way to North Carolina? (watch it all the way to the end. It's pure gold if ignorance is your standard)
Meaning……..
He should have a beard (I mean wife), a couple of children, and hang out in airport toilets looking for action like solid, family values-oriented conservative Republicans. Your values…..
I can only hope that Jared leads us down an "anti-Christian path" given that religion is the root of 93.2% of evil.
How do you know it's not the root of 93.3% of all evil?
Because the "real" number is 93.236%
78.65% of all statistics are made up on the spot
36.4% of all people believe that statistic.
😂
117 percent of all Americans don't understand statistics.
85.47% of the time.
Funny, I thought the love of money was the root of all evil. Granted, there are a number of religious people who seem to pursue money. But there are a greater number of not-so-religious people pursuing money — and using non-monetary appeals to pursue the religious population's votes, leading to power, leading to money.
No, the love of money is what will precede the Second Coming of Prosperity Jesus.
Much ado about nothing as usual. This doesn't say Polis is against American values because he is gay. It simply says he is gay AND he is against American values.
BTW, why doesn't Jared use his real last name? That's going to come up sometime.
I don't like the righties' take on "American values". Full stop.
And don't play dumb on "real names". Public figures have been using names that sounded better for decades, or longer. Would you have watched "Gidget" starring Alexandra Zuck?
Why is Walker Stapleton suddenly ashamed to admit to being a strong supporter of Trump?
Walker Stapleton is purportedly proud to be a bald-faced liar (only Treasurer to support…, he's a fourth gen Coloradan, etc)? Why doesn't he mention that in his campaign ads?
Why say that "Polis is against American values because he's gay" when they can imply it so strongly like they did with that post?
How about this: Republicans are against American values because they separate immigrant families, put them in Trump's new concentration camps and strip them of due process rights, which, yes they are entitled to.
Who gives a shit about Polis' real last name? It's not like he keeps saying "I'm a Fourth Generation Coloradoan" when he's really from Connecticut.
Besides, it's his mother's real last name, and since 2000 it's been his real last name.
And it ain't like it's a big secret.
Nutlid's desperate to grasp any available straw
I thought the only thing Nutlid grasped were Kleenexes.
and his straw
Threads like this give Nutter some serious wood.
You mean like Rafael Edward "Ted" Cruz? (first name, last name. Who gives a $#!+?
Or Fred Drumpf.
Exactly. Can you imagine
David DennisonDonald Drumpf trying to peddle his FART initiative to his bozos like Nutter?!?!?Nutlid probably thinks it's brilliant and loves the name too.
Nutter has probably long-forgotten the initial Drumpf fortune was made the good ol’-fashioned way with whiskey and women.
The would-be usurper who had all that natural-born affinity with Cuba and Canada? THAT Rafael Edward Cruz?
That one. The Canadian-born Presidential candidate Nutter was no doubt 💯 % behind at one time until he wasn’t. BTW, have you seen him lately? He’s only 47yo but he looks like, pardon my French, “shit”.
Gee, Moderatus — you could do a bit of obvious research. Wikipedia has this account:
and it linked back to http://www.glbtqarchive.com/ssh/polis_jared_S.pdf
Nutteranus: Straight outta Ideas.
He’s proof the shallow end of the gene pool needs a lifeguard.
ROFLMAO!
That's a good article JD
Man, the GOP is scraping the barrel for oppo research. "Not his real name? " "Openly gay? "
Do you even know how many among your own ranks are openly or secretly gay? Hint: It's about 10%, like every other human population.
Seriously, why aren't y'all trolling him about the oil and gas jobs he supposedly threatens? That won't work, either, but at least you won't look like a homophobic bigot.
Perhaps ten percent of the population, but
Among Nutlid's ranks, about 98 percent of that ten percent are secretly gay (you know, only gay when they are drunk, high, or in a public restroom). As for the other two percent…. depressed and masochists.
There was a very small contingent of the Log Cabin Club of Denver marching in the pride parade two weeks ago. Their sad elephant float said it all.
I'm not a part of the LGBT community these days, but I know some conservative LGBT folk. We have the same diversity of opinions as anyone else, although I think that there is a distinct lefty / Dem bias just because of the outcast status, anti-patriarchy ideology (at least on the women's part) and history.
Regular GOP people need to embrace their gay friends, not drive them out, or celebrate only the obnoxious nutcases like Jonathon Lockwood and Milo YappisFace.
I'm interested in Richard Wyland's take. So he thinks Jared isn't as proud to be gay as he says, because he's not bombarding everyone on the campaign trail with pictures of his family?
Or mentioning how he loves the gay sex in every other sentence, because that's how ALL gay people act, amirite?Funny, I thought Jared was going to mention his husband and kids at some point, but at his own pace and in a down-to-earth way. Maybe he's as bothered as I am by candidates' performative brandishing of family members.
Richard Wyland either apparently likes the "look at my family, look how normal and relatable I am!" dog and pony show… or he likes his gay people as stereotypical and ridiculous as possible. Or both.
You know who used to like to put his family on display?
The Reverend Ted Haggard. When he got busted for doing meth with a male prostitute, he was interviewed by the press sitting behind the wheel of his family minivan with beard (I mean wife) beside him and kids in the back seat.
Or what about when the wide-stance Senator Larry Craig got busted for trolling for d— in an airport toilet? When he held his press conference, there was the hapless Suzanne Craig (another beard) wearing a big hat and dark sunglasses, standing by her man.
Moddy, the GOP problem with Polis isn’t that he is gay. It’s that he isn’t cowering like the cowards in your party who are gay.
I thought that the conservative world was all about post- identity politics where not emphasizing any minority group membership meant everybody would just get along. Now they want to know why Jared isn't putting his gayness at the front of his campaign. Highly illogical.
That's the end result of conviction that your own invisible magic sky daddy has a monopoly on The Truth.
But hey, the more these sociopathic stump-jumpers talk, the more they expose themselves.
I admire our resident Librarian’s restraint so far today. He can’t be far behind now that Nutter has bravely blazed the trail?
Did he get out of jail yet?
He did peek his head out of the sewer hole once in the last week (can’t remember which day). He’s apparently getting some limited Interweb time while he’s braiding his new set of tiki torches in life skills class.
I figured he has a lot of free time now that his candidate(s) lost in the primary.
I was afraid if we nominated a gay man that the Republican hate mongers would dive in the sewer.
It didn't take them long.
Remember when Nutter’s bff had that whole conspiracy-thingy on the gay frogs? They don’t have to dive in the sewer, they’re already there.
Heard Chuck Bonniwell grouse on his radio show the other day: why don't "they" find out who Jared has "put the moves on" lately? ( a la the #MeToo movement). Then he said (wait for it) "They all do it!"
Did he mean men…Republicans….or "gays"? You be the judge.
Considering the top of their ticket is a frat boy from Connecticut with a history of hit-and-run and drunk driving, they might want to refrain from making this person.
No wonder Moderatus didn’t want Stapleton and was plugging for Cynthia Coffman.
Considering I was on the receiving end of a hit-and-run drunk driver back in 2006, not sympathetic to Wayne Stapler at all.