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April 05, 2007 07:03 PM UTC
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Apparently we’ve gotten to the point where these kinds of dirty tricks are so common and expected from the big money lobbies, nobody’s interested enough to comment.
Jared Polis hired a sleazy Republican lobbyist to fight for ethics reform.
That lobbyist than goes on to attack good Democrats by telling lies and scaring senior citizens.
Everyone knows Steve Durham is sleazy and Jared Polis hired him anyway.
Will Jared Polis do the right thing and fire Durham and apologize to Representatives Borodkin and Todd.
Durham has been let off the hook.
“Durham said lawmakers who were upset with the calls, which began on March 5 and abruptly ended after lawmakers complained, had repeatedly been told that neither he nor the home builders had anything do with them.
Durham said he was pleased the complaint against him won’t proceed, but frustrated that he had been named in the first place.
“It’s hard to see how this complaint was filed in good faith,” Durham said.
The home builders and Colorado Concern were working together to defeat the bill once it was introduced, said Rob Nanfelt, government affairs director for the home builders association.
That’s why home builders were included in e-mails about the calls.”
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From the last sentence in this article I take it that Durham was still involved in crafting the message for the robo-calls, but Mutch was the driving force behind it.
I guess something is brewing. But it smells like methanol rather than ethanol. And I suspect that you have drank far too much of it.
Durham does work for someone who is sleazy, for something that has nothing to do with Polis, and somehow that is Polis’ responsibility? If you want to bash Polis, do it directly. Don’t use this “degrees of separation” nonsense.
How many legislators were targeted by the homebuilders?
“And Sen. Gail Schwartz, D-Snowmass Village, said she has heard of similar phone calls being made to her constituents.”
http://www.denverpos…
I think this is great. Not the initial action but the blowback. Why is everyone so concerned about corruption, heavy handed lobbying, etc? It seems like every time someone tries it it blows up in their face and hurts them.
As long as we have a government of human beings we will have varying degrees of corruption. But as long as the odds are good of it being counter-productive, you not only have the efforst failing, but you have others not trying it because it can make things worse.
Love how this is playing out
Why does this always seem to be Repubs with their hand in the till??? I’m starting to see enough data that one can fairly claim a correlation.
Come on everyone, don’t we have one crooked legislator on the Democratic side?
What legislator was involved? Only, apparently, lobbiest Munch and his overseers, who, by the way are attached to the Governor not any repub legislature.
Let’s see, Sen. Hanna (oops, former Dem senator) last year lost her fingers trying to reach into the till.
You mean you don’t see any connecton between the bullying tacts used by the homebuilders, Minority Leader May and Rep. Balmer?
http://www.coloradop…
While those legislators didn’t write the robo-call scripts, more than likely there were discussion on how this bill would be used for election campaigns between the Homebuilders and the House Republicans (see Balmer’s threats towards Rep. Stafford of her becoming a target in 2008).
The Senate Minority Office got the same memo from those writing the robo-call script to paint the picture of the bill benefitting trial lawyers. http://www.colorados…
Don’t tell me there is not attachment between the Homebuilders and the Republican in the General Assembly.
The robo-calls were before there was a bill. Also, robo calls have been used by both sides since Robo and Call got together years ago. The question is (which your partisan brain is not really interested in) is weather the content of the calls were illegal – that remains to be seen. If they were not – end of story (other than Munch lied to the press about his involvment – also not a crime but stupid).
Free speach is still the law of the land (I think) and unless specific lobbiest restrictions were violated, this Democrat-backed (yes a Ritter guy actually funded the calls) will rightly be exonerated – whether you criminalize speach folks like it or not.
I just said Republican. If your defense of the crooked Republicans is that they are not legislators – that’s a pretty poor defense.
It’s in our blood.