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Former State Sen. Tim Neville (R-Littleton) blames his loss in November’s election, in part, on “some of the worst execution” he’s seen by fellow Republicans who ran separate campaigns in support of Neville.
Emphasizing that he did the “things a candidate can do,” Neville told KNUS Saturday that outside groups launched ineffective advertising and messaging campaigns, including lousy mailers.
“It was extremely frustrating as a candidate to watch these [mailers] hit and have people call me and say, ‘Why are we getting all these mailers. They’ve got beauty shots of all your opponents on them. What’s going on?'” Neville told KNUS host Randy Corporon, saying it would have been illegal for him to tell the Senate Majority Fund and Colorado independent expenditure committees to bug off. [listen below]
On the radio, Neville named the Senate Majority Fund in particular, which until recently had been run by Andy George of Clear Creek Strategies. New Senate Minority Leader Chris Holbert replaced George with former GOP state party spokesman Daniel Cole last week.
In addition to the Senate Majority Fund, the Colorado Economic Leadership Fund and the Colorado Republican Committee IE, among others, also spent money on Neville’s behalf.
Neville pointed to one mailed advertisement that was “apparently bankrolled by Colorado Concern, Mike Kopp’s group.” The deceptive mailer was paid for by an independent expenditure committee called the Business Opportunity Fund, with major money from Larry Mizel of MDC Holdings.
“It has a big picture, and it says Neville and Hickenlooper, working together for Colorado’s economy,” complained Neville on air, saying he got complaints that he was making it look like he was endorsed by Hickenlooper.
Neville contrasted the election work of Colorado Concern, the Senate Majority Fund, and other GOP groups with that of his son, Joseph Neville, who conducted independent campaigns (via Values First Colorado, Coloradans for Secure Borders and the Colorado Liberty PAC) in support of GOP candidates running for the state house.
Joseph Neville, who came under recent attack for his campaign decisions, manages the consulting company Rearden Strategic.
“I’m definitely proud of Joseph, and what he did and what he does to help candidates–and to effectively do things,” said Tim Neville, also praising his other son, Colorado House Minority Leader Patrick Neville of Castle Rock, for “definitely fighting the good fight.”
Tim Neville, whose election loss helped Democrats take over Colorado state government, believes his campaign did everything it could do to win on the fundraising and mobilization side, saying he personally knocked on 18,000 doors, he said, and his campaign knocked on 25,000.
Neville did not reserve his criticism to fellow Republicans.
He was particularly upset at attacks from allies of Democrats that portrayed him as raking in big money from oil-and-gas interests, which also supported groups allied with Democrats.
“We don’t live in fancy houses and gated communities,” Neville told Corporon.
“Those that know me know pretty much how we live and how hard we work and what we do and how we serve the community,” said Neville.
As for future elections, Neville said Republicans need to improve their ground game and make sure they know where their donations are going, “before they give money.”
Listen to Tim Neville on Wake Up With Randy Corporon Feb. 16
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Dear Tim,
It is not the campaign, it is your policies.
The majority of voters want more controls on guns.
It's not the package. It's not the advertising jungle. It's the fact that dogs won't eat the dog food you're peddling.
One voter I talked to there told me that he would vote against Neville just based on the NUMBER of mailers he found in his mailbox.
"The number of trees this guy killed ….. "
Nobody really expected him to take any personal responsibility for his defeat did they? Typical Republican. It's always someone else's fault.
Yeah Timmy. Your fascist rhetoric, your wholesale support of Trump, your hatred of any gun regulation, or business regulation, your hatred of the other isn't the reason you lost so badly. None of it is your fault.
Podestasemails should be along any minute now to defend Pa Neville with one of his profanity-laced troll screeds.
And it'll work because Poddy mouth has so much charisma and unlimited persuasive powers.
The opinions about flyers and campaigning and insider-baseball stuff could be interesting if there really was a lot of difference between 2018 and other years. I've seen some of the older mailers and followed some of these campaigns, and let's just say none of it was what Plato envisioned as the pathway to altruism in The Republic. Trumpstink exposed where the most rotten parts of NevilleBubble.gov were smelling up the local political fridge, while the actual rightie-national-think-tank-model-legislation Colorado bills and voting records were fairly easy to exploit unless the target was a true Bubble Belieber. But by all means, hire a different comms firm and expect the 50s to make a comeback.
I'm one of the idealists who think politicians often are held responsible for their results (or lack thereof). Unless I missed something in my fast read of this article, there wasn't any mention of positive results from something the Republican majority in the Senate produced — no better schools, roads, social services or safer communities. No mention of what was said when he knocked on 18,000 doors. No sense of what the community as a whole wanted their government to do.
So, maybe it wasn't just the mailers.
I am curious how many of those people he talked to told him to go pound sand.