How are people are still making this amateur mistake? Buzzfeed:
Last year BuzzFeed reported on how congressional staffers had been editing members’ Wikipedia pages. House offices all share the same IP address. This makes it quite easy to find when people who work in Congress airbrush Wikipedia pages. BuzzFeed found 13 new examples since the first post…
And who do you suppose they found idiotically making edits to their congressional Wikipedia pages from that effortlessly traceable (and public) congressional IP address?
A section from the article “List of politicians affiliated with the Tea Party movement” was removed that said Republican Rep. Mike Coffman was associated with the tea party.
That's right! Colorado's own Rep. Mike Coffman, one of the most endangered GOP members of Congress heading into 2014, has been caught editing his Wikipedia page to remove references to his formerly proud membership in the Tea Party Caucus. The latest red-handed example, though there are likely others, took place as recently as September 20th of this year:
It's pretty stunning to see this error still being made by congressional staff. Buzzfeed's expose last year of congressional Wikipedia edits was bad enough. Coffman, as 9NEWS' Kyle Clark reminds us today, was the #1 offender of last year's story, for removing all reference to his infamous 2012 remarks about President Barack Obama's citizenship. When supporters of Sarah Palin ham-fistedly edited Paul Revere's entry to conform to Palin's faulty recounting of history, eyes rolled from coast to coast. At the very least, couldn't Coffman's staff wait until they are outside the Capitol to make these traceable edits? Use their phones? Something?
Especially since in "New Coffman's" case, one can hardly imagine a more embarrassing screwup?
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Is there still even a tea party caucus? You're the ones who say the TP is out of style.
These people certainly think that there is a Tea Party. Then there's this list of "hardline conservatives" who engineered the government shutdown. Coffman isn't on that list, although he certainly put out some smarmy ads after the fact whining that "He tried" to save us all from Obamacare.
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You mean this Tea Party Caucus?
The one that lists Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado as a member?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_Party_Caucus#Members.2C_112th_and_113th_Congresses
If you're gonna go around editing Wikipedia pages, you might as well be thorough.
"Tea Party"? The only time Mike has been to one of those was when he was in Boulder visiting all his liberal supporters at Celestial Seasonings.
He's never heard of any other "Tea Party". Maybe you meant TEE Party, when he was golfing with his liberal supporters in Aurora?
Yup. Only Democrats can "evolve."
As has been pointed out already there is a difference between evolving and changing your position back and forth frequently and repeatedly sometimes in the course of 24 hours as we saw Coffman do over the remarks that Obama wasn't a real American Said it, changed it, restated it, distanced himself from it, back on board with it again, all in the span of a couple of days.. Besides, dear. Last time I checked no R with political ambitions would admit to even believing in evolution. So, how shall I put this? Bite me.
Because we're the only ones who believe in it.
That's probably because you have to believe in it before it can proceed and most wingnutters do not.I'd probably include you in that group with Coffman.
Um, "Evolve" meaning covering ones tracks, Got it 😉
Coffman will campaign as a Progressive Republican 😉
Will he be riding from event to event on a unicorn?
That would be as a "compassionate conservative". Whatever TF that means. No one seems to know.
Ask George….
I had a long-time friend- Boulder native, Marine Viet vet- who said he knew that was a crock from first mention because there's no such thing as a compassionate conservative.
Pols, Pols, Pols. Coffman is going to embarrass himself more and more as the election approaches. Just because you can't imagine how he can embarrass himself more, doesn't mean Coffman 2.0 can't think of many, many other ways to do so.
But it's ok. I'm already stocked up on popcorn.
I think its time to update exlurker19. Its now Coffman 2.0 ver 3-5, with a new Tea Party patch to install.
Now there's an ad: "Mike Coffman doesn't want you to know about his deep ties to the Tea Party…."
Being produced as we speak?
Glad to see another 'fiscal conservative' Tea Party' GOP congressmember is using taxfunded resources and staff to clean up his election image! Way to go! Sure, vets on foodstamps? Freeloaders! Congressmen with taxfunded 6-figured salaries pissing out more tax money on public employees working on a re-election, err I mean an evolution of Mike–campaign, SOP for GOP SOBs.
New Mike needs to try much harder than this to erase Old Mike.