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February 22, 2022 02:16 PM UTC

Heidi Ganahl Lets The Crazy Flow Through (At Least Near) Her

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  • by: Colorado Pols
Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters speaks while Heidi Ganahl listens intently.

Colorado Newsline’s Sara Wilson reports from a candidate forum held Sunday in Fort Collins by a group calling itself the “Colorado Conservative Patriot Alliance”–not quite as overtly threatening as “United American Defense Force,” but still all man–featuring a very interesting cross-section of Republican candidates for elected office in 2022 up and down the ballot:

“Republicans are finally aligned on our messaging. As you hear all of us speak, you’re going to hear a lot of the same things. [Pols emphasis] I don’t think there’s a lot of argument about what we need to do once we win,” gubernatorial candidate Heidi Ganahl said.

And who are all these Republicans that Heidi Heidi Ganahl is referring to as “finally aligned on our messaging,” you ask? With not “a lot of argument about what we need to do once we win?”

Other candidates who spoke included gubernatorial candidates Danielle Neuschwanger and Greg Lopez; U.S. Senate candidates state Rep. Ron Hanks, Gino Campana, Peter Yu and Deborah Flora; state House District 46 candidate Ryan Armagost; Larimer County sheriff candidates John Feyens and Jeff Fisher; and Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters as a last-minute addition.

Heidi Ganahl, Tina Peters.

While Ganahl was reciting from a script about “aligned messaging” with her fellow Republicans, others on stage were making that suggestion highly ill-advised: like gubernatorial opponent Danielle Neuschwanger who thinks Gov. Jared Polis is masquerading as a gay man, and Gino Campana whose message is “vote for me because I’m rich like Donald Trump.” And if Republicans are “finally aligned on our messaging,” does that include Ron Hanks‘ single issue of avenging Trump is no longer a “divisive question?” What is the message sent by Ganahl appearing with Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who may very well be in custody before the November elections on election tampering charges, with Peters’ primary opponent in the Secretary of State’s race nowhere to be found?

If Ganahl wanted to put daylight between her campaign and the very worst of her party running in 2022, all she had to do was call them out in this forum. They were right in front of her delivering their applause lines. In fact, if Ganahl truly does disagree with Tina Peters and Ron Hanks, she had an urgent obligation to distance herself from them lest she be branded by their antics. In the hour and a half this forum ran, Ganahl never did that.

Instead, Ganahl took the stage with them, and then took ownership of their “aligned messaging.”

We see no reason to not take Ganahl at her word going forward.

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13 thoughts on “Heidi Ganahl Lets The Crazy Flow Through (At Least Near) Her”

  1. This is dumb. It wasn't a debate, just a candidate forum. There was no cross examination. Heidi Ganahl obviously doesn't speak for anyone but Ganahl and it's not her fault that she and Peters were both present.

    More guilt by association. Don't you ever get tired of it?

    1. More guilt by association. Don't you ever get tired of it?

       

      I guess you got a point nutlid. We could just talk about how CU Regent and near-future Gubernatorial loser panders to the radical, fascist, Tina Peters-esque GOP base and won't answer the simple question about the 2020 election, because it's too "divisive".  Really, because she's too much of a feckless coward who won't honestly answer questions, because she knows that depending on the answer, she will either kill whatever little credibility she has, or piss off the GOP base of Tina Peters disciples and lose the primary.  

    2. Partial (i.e., blind pig/broken clock) credit to Fluffy on this one . . .

      . . . Ganahl is guilty of being Ganahl.  That’s plenty guilty enough.  She doesn’t need Peters, or Hanks, or Neuschwanger, to add anything to her guilt.

      (. . . Why she would then allow that to happen by continuing to align herself with, and be defined by, her fellow nutterest attendees is certainly a mystery, especially with this kind of tacit pre-endorsement of those clowns:

      “As you hear all of us speak, you’re going to hear a lot of the same things. I don’t think there’s a lot of argument about what we need to do once we win”

      . . . but, hey, no one has ever yet accused Hiedi of making a good decision in her campaign.)

       

  2. “Gino Campana, whose message is ‘vote for me because I’m rich like Donald Trump.'”

    Gino may want to start re-thinking that statement, since Trump’s accountants for the past 10 years, Mazars, recently terminated their relationship with Trump because they can’t vouch for the veracity of Trump’s tax and other financial documents during that time span.

    1. NOT just Trump's tax documents.  Mazars disavowed all of their work product, saying they could not be confident the documents ought to be relied on. 

      That would include tax returns, of course, but it would also be loan applications; profit & loss statements on various properties, details of financial agreements between partners, and probably the financial elements for casualty insurance, too. Trump used those documents to justify appealing for government benefits.  We already know about his abuse of nonprofit standards with the Trump Foundation;

      The filing by the NY AG's office indicated they were working with over 500,000 pages of material from Mazars.  Trump's lawyers tried to get him out of testifying in a deposition, saying he really didn't follow the details — and DJT made a public statement the next day about his command of all those details. 

      I'm beginning to wonder if the strategy is to string things out as long as possible, then file for bankruptcy to stretch longer, and hope it will all go away somehow. 

  3. Senator Loren "Ron" Hanks?

    Emboldened GOP looks to expand midterm battleground map | TheHill

    The Hill has a piece which claims that Thurston Howell may be vulnerable in November given the fact that he has never won more than 50%. (Not sure if that is true. I know he got less than 50% when he edged out "Buyer's Remorse" Buck in 2010. Anyone recall how he did against the Unicorn?)

    They also mention that two of his opponents are wealthy and can self-fund. I know Gino looks like he stepped out of an episode of Robin Leach's Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous but I'm pretty certain there's not a lot of money – new or old – in Penrose or Canon City. Is the other rich GOP candidate Eli Bremer?

    1. Hanks has never topped $46,000 on either his 2010 House, or his 2021 Senate bids. He currently has about $12,000 on hand. Hence, his reliance on shock value, owning the libs, and earned media. 

      Bremer, on the other hand, has  raised 10 times that amount, ( ~ $400K) without self-funding. He’s burning through it quickly, though.

      Campana  has about 780,000 on hand , but has loaned most of it himself. 
       

      Joe O’Dea appears to be the other self-funding candidate. 

      No GOP candidate comes close to Bennet’s 4.7 Mil cash on hand. 

      Bennet beat Darryl Glenn 50% to 44% in 2016, with 3rd party cndidates totalling the remaining 6%.

  4. Who cares, R&R. The Hill story is a piece of speculative crap. Go no farther than an alleged GOP poll, unattributed, that supposedly has Thurston in a dead heat with a generic Republican. The story then mentions a purported Democratic poll, also unattributed, showing him with a double-digit lead. Effective speculation should be based on some actual fact, don’t you think?

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