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October 08, 2010 06:47 PM UTC
46 Comments
At least they picked nice pictures
if they featured Boehner, Blunt, McConnell, and of course any of the important members of the previous administration. But it’s okay because they only borrow the money from China and make sure that those who benefit the most from our American way of life pay the least back into it, percentage-wise.
endorsed Hickenlooper? Why would she be directly involved with a billboard such as this? Does not make sense…and Kelly Maher is nothing more than a hack wannabe…
I wonder if she (he?) will have anything to say.
Too bad. I’d like to know how they can afford all those annoying billboards and fancy, pro-level cameras.
They hire freelancers to cover lots of events, and have been doing so for some time. Maybe they’ve bought expensive cameras, but it’s more likely someone just noticed the freelance videographers instead of the site owners with flip cameras.
please explain to me the Mary Smith connection. She was all cuddled up with Hick in a photo in the Statesman.
If you ever get the chance to spend time with Mary Smith DON’T. She reminds me of those people that are famous for never having done anything. Sorry Paris…didn’t mean to classify you in the same group as Mary Smith, but I do have more respect for Paris than I do Mary Smith. YUCK!
Just in case nobody noticed before in all of obr’s other posts.
especially when they are of the quality of individual like Maher and Smith.
So sxp…you are loving Maher and Smith and respecting them?
Please elaborate on all of their qualities that you like and respect.
Even if I don’t like what they do, I respect it more than sitting around trashing people in another blog’s comments.
I don’t like them…and guess what…I get to say that! LOL
Oh and when appropriate I get off my ass and trash them other places too. LOL
How does your garden grow?
With loads of hypocrisy, and nice, green, leafy money to put up billboards.
She’s one of the media that Hickenlooper keeps dodging.
She is a Republican operative who uses “media.”
Which is fine, but let’s just be clear.
Are any of them Secretary for the Denver Democrats or past director of the Denver Democratic Party?
CPols allows right-wing/GOP-favoring posts and commentary on the blog; does WSYS have a stable of bloggers from both ends of the spectrum who freely post commentary favoring progressives as well as conservatives? The rare comments that appear on WSYS appear to be open to both sides (although it doesn’t appear that there’s much if any interaction between visitors and posters) but there are zero bloggers from anywhere but the hard right.
Kelly (she) has been a GOP operative for YEARS – she runs political campaigns for Republican candidates. Two years ago, she put Jim Geddes’ campaign for CU regent deep into a financial hole by repeatedly not filing campaign finance reports. He got slapped with some hefty fines (about $4,000) from an administrative law judge for those little missteps. At the time the fines were levied, it was more money than the campaign had. Eventually, the reports got filed and the fines paid.
Aside from sharing her name with a writer of erotic fiction, Kelly Maher is described quite clearly on the internet as Secretary of the Denver Republicans.
Post reported it, here: http://bit.ly/97Vlmk
And miraculously, there have been no pieces attacking Hickenlooper on the WSYS website since then.
Believe WSYS did six pieces attacking Hick in Aug-Sept, but since first second week of September, nothing.
I wonder why that is…
WSYS did on Oct. 6 recycle some of the Mayor’s remarks from the recent Lamm-Owens moderated debate for a piece providing the usual panicky commentary about labor unions. Other than that, nothing since late summer.
Do tell.
I’m sorry – are Dems complaining about trackers and outside money being spent to influence elections?
Seriously?
So now you can produce a single – just one – example of a Democratic Party staffer simultaneously working for an “independent” attack group.
Oh wait, you can’t! Or can you? I’m waiting.
This is a big chance for you, LB. You could actually prove me wrong on the facts, for once, instead of whining about how mean I am to you and not responding substantively to anything. I’d take it if I were you.
Are you telling me that you’re absolutely certain that no Dem staffer has done the same thing?
I just love the faux-redass about these terrible people trying to influence elections with their money!!!!
* Cough * Stryker, Gill, Polis…. * Cough *
Facts or speculation?
Unlike this blog post, which is based in FACT.
I don’t think you’ve ever lost an argument so quickly, LB, so I’ll be watching for your reversion to the usual petulance in 3…2…1…
What argument did I lose?
My point was that I’m having my heart warmed watching libs cry about their own MO being used on them.
No petulance here, you’re being really extra sweet today. Are you feeling alright?
If their “own MO” is being used, then why can’t you point out a case of a Democratic Party staffer simultaneously working for a 527 or c4 or any other independent political committee? Because that is what this post is about, and you are not actually deflecting the issue at hand very well. I’ve never understood why you trolls feign ignorance over something everybody else sees clearly. Didn’t you just do that a week ago too?
Still waiting, but that’s the argument I believe you have lost. You asked.
Big difference there.
Kelly Maher has certainly worked for Republican candidates and causes over the years, but she is no paid staffer of the Denver or the Colorado Republican Party.
The only part-time staffer the Denver Republican Party employs is Ruth Prendergast, who helps answer the phones a few days a week. Everyone else involved is merely a volunteer–including Kelly, who volunteers as the county party secretary.
If she is like most county party secretaries, that just means she’s responsible for taking notes at Party meetings.
So if Pat Waak, unpaid Democratic Party official, was discovered to be running Progress Now or one of these million generic 527s, Republicans would not immediately demand her to be frog marched? You’re obviously trying to help, but #FAIL.
Incidentally, I notice that you have only commented a very few times in your relatively long stay (2006 account), and you really like defending GOP attorney John Zakhem. In other cases you comment densely on election law matters. And now you’re poofing in to stick up for Maher, registered out of the offices of GOP Lawyer Central.
You wouldn’t happen to have an office at 1660 Wynkoop Street #900 of your own, would you?
I’m not outing anybody, there are a lot of people at that address. I don’t know for sure that this person is there. The address is listed in this blog post. I have no expectations that this person is going to answer me, and if they did it would be a self outing.
Sometimes the perfectly-timed guests should be aware that people are not stupid, that’s all.
You guys have a problem when Republicans do the same thing the Dems did last cycle?
Show me a single example of a Democratic Party staffer simultaneously working for a 527 or other independent political group, and I will concede a major point to you. Really, I will, with no sarcasm.
If you can’t, and I don’t think you can, STFU and stop trying to cast baseless aspersions.
What sayeth the H-Man?
No reason Republicans shouldn’t be doing this. But the WSYS pieces consistently are bogged down by sophomorically lame commentary, huge editorial holes that a decent communicator could easily avoid(the organized labor hysteria piece on Oct. 6 is a great example) or the ponderous presence of the Independence Institute’s Dave Kopel.
Great idea, poor execution. GOP perhaps should have opted for people with solid communications skills instead of party operatives.
Don’t they fund the entire Tea Party?
The tail thinks it’s wagging the dog, but that’s far from true, as usual.
BREAKING: blind squirrel finds nut.
Today’s Westword blog article by Michael Roberts includes an interview of Maher. Looks like WhoSaidYouSaid is an ambitious and organized operation that is likely to be around a while.
http://blogs.westword.com/late…
It’s great to be an secret donor slush fund run by Republican staffers. I’ll bet there’s a real future in it.
This is politics and politics is a “full contact sport”
That said –
I know both Kelly Maher and Mary Smith very well and they are both wonderful, sincere, and honest activists – I trust their word and I deeply believe that their political actions are motivated by making our good State better
I just wanted that on record