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May 11, 2007 06:11 PM UTC
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Wouldn’t it be fair to question Stephanie O’Malley’s appointment along with the Kopelman scandal? Just to save space, I’ll list the issues for you: 1) O’Malley has no experience as an election administrator, and no intuitive grasp of right and wrong concening election neutrality. She is Wellington Webb’s daughter, so she got the job;2)
she abdicated on campaign finance reporting: her own reports were filed late, Gallagher’s were filed late, she did not question the robo call failure to identify who paid, she did not question the payment of almost $50,000 to
a city employee by his boss; 3)she did not question many complaints that candidate Paul Lopez did not meet residency requirements. Oh, I forgot! The City of Denver has been given an ethics waiver in order to promote the Democratic Convention!
Jan Tyler, former Denver Election Commission
(let’s see, call me “angry,” “unhappy with the results…”
still doesn’t change these facts…besides, I’m not angry..as long as these folks keep it up, I have something to write about…it is actually total entertainment)
Besides, you allege ethics violations, but don’t support them with ‘facts’.
For years, on every level from federal to local, from DOJ to state Secretary of State offices, the Republican strategy for maintaining a permanent Republican majority seems to be securing entirely partisan control of as much of the election apparatus as possible. Conservatives can point to instances of questionable actions on the Dem side but in terms of sheer volume, over recent years there is simply no comparison between the two parties in terms of illegal practices and plain old dirty tricks. Party affiliation aside, all of Colorado’s citizens couldn’t possibly have done better in 2006 than by electing Ken Gordon as a Secretary of State we could ALL trust to do the right thing with perfect integrity. What a shame we didn’t.
Coffman so far appears to be trying to do a good and fair job. I am willing to wait and see how he handles this and the rest of his job.
And if this guy is a good friend of his, it is natural that he may be a bit slower to cut him loose. That’s human nature.
So give him another week or two to see how this is handled. Then pile on him if he doesn’t do the right thing.
“its not my enemies that keep me up late at night worrying – its my friends.”
“Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.”
Heard that is middle Eastern, don’t know.
Obviously, I would have preferred Ken Gordon, but if one or two Pubs had to win state offices, Mike is the guy.
So he is one of the “good” republicans, and yet is corrupt. Makes me wonder how truly bad the “corrupt” republicans are.
This bodes ill for us. We need to clean up our gov. at both state and federal levels. The fact that these guys thought that can get by with this really bothers me. It means that there are far worse actions going on.
Do you have any specifics? More than he has a political friend who is as that seems to be universal.
I have kept quiet on this for a bit to allow this thread to die, knowing that you will check who replies to your stuff.
While I do not know your full background, we both know that large systems have security built-in. In particular, the IRS and SOS type have very few chances for ppl to pull off massive fraud. I am sure that you have followed the recent CO IRS hack, and have realized that she knew their system well enough to get around the security. In fact, I would guess that she has had more help than is being acknowledged. But the SOS is a different matter. It is almost certain that the info was being reported up the ladder as to repeated queries. Kopelman is not a CS or CIS type person. It is all but certain that they security systems reported all this. Mike Coffman had at least SOME level of knowledge of what was going on.
He was either in on it, was purposely ignoring his reports, or simply was not reading the reports. At the least, that makes him incompetent.
It would appear that the guys is some form of a DBA and more so that he was in charge of production. It would be trivial for him to get around the reports. If so, then I do not blame coffman. But if the info was on reports and it can be shown that the should have known, then yes, I would consider him guilty.
I don’t see him as corrupt, at least as of yet. I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. That he gave an $80K job to a supporter isn’t terribly new in olitics. If a person has the qualificaitons, I really don’t have a problem with that.
I remember when JFK appointed his brother RFK to be AG. Wheweeee, youdda thought he appointed his dead dog. But RFK turned out to be one of the most aggressive, far sighted AG’s we’ve ever had.
Then there is Wellington Webb……..