October 23, 2014 02:23 PM UTC

What Cory Gardner and Manti Te'o Have In Common

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• by: Colorado Pols

The Denver Post's Lynn Bartels reports with the San Diego Chargers playing tonight at Mile High Stadium–ouch!

Catfishing is phenomenon of a person pretending to be someone they are not by fabricating an identity to lure someone into a relationship. One of the San Diego Chargers is Manti Te’o, the Notre Dame linebacker duped into an engagement with a woman who never existed and who reportedly died during the season.

Amy Runyon-Harms, executive director of ProgressNow Colorado, said Gardner is catfishing Colorado in his attempt to unseat Democratic Sen. Mark Udall. The group posted the web site CoryGardnerIsCatfishingColorado.com, which includes a fake profile of Gardner. Among the things he couldn’t live without: Crest White Strips, the Koch brothers, his signed copy of “Atlas Shrugged” and Obamacare. Snap!

From ProgressNow Colorado's press release:

"Colorado currently has our own catfishing scandal. US Senate candidate Cory Gardner has created a fake persona of his own with the goal of duping Colorado voters into a romance at the ballot box. His cons include supporting a federal Personhood bill that he claims doesn't exist, false claims that over-the-counter birth control would save women money, lies about his role in last year's government shutdown and his giant fib about supporting Colorado's green-energy economy that turned out to be completely false," said Amy Runyon-Harms, executive director of ProgressNow Colorado.

It's a story that still hasn't been fully explained: did Manti Te'o believe the fake dying Facebook girlfriend was real? Was it all a sympathy ploy to win the Heisman Trophy? The world has its suspicions, but Te'o will most likely take the truth to his grave–after a successful NFL career.

Cory Gardner may not be so lucky with his federal Personhood bill.