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September 19, 2008 03:50 PM UTC

Schaffer Forced To Retract Bogus Claim

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  • by: Colorado Pols

A serious dent appeared on Senate candidate Bob Schaffer’s credibility this morning, courtesy his hip-shooting campaign manager Dick Wadhams–as the Grand Junction Sentinel reports:

A Republican attack on what was termed a “sham energy bill” turned out to be wrong.

Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer’s campaign released an attack Wednesday on his Democratic opponent, Mark Udall of Eldorado Springs, saying Udall had voted for a “sham energy bill” in the form of H.R. 6899, the Comprehensive American Energy Security and Consumer Protection Act.

The act passed the House on Tuesday.

The measure, according to the Schaffer campaign’s news release, not only wouldn’t produce more energy, but also would send “100 percent of potential oil shale lease revenue to the federal government, leaving nothing for Colorado.”

On Thursday, Wadhams backtracked.

“That’s not the case,” he said of the oil shale-lease revenue issue.

Schaffer’s campaign took the word of the American Petroleum Institute, Wadhams said, adding, “I guess we shouldn’t have taken it from one source.” [Pols emphasis]

“You gotta watch that API,” said Udall spokeswoman Tara Trujillo, who called the erroneous comment “another example of who Bob Schaffer is looking out for: the oil and gas industry. He’s not worried about the Coloradans who are paying higher energy costs. This is the same guy who said the federal government has been profiting off the back of the oil and gas industry.”

The measure does address oil shale by offering states the option to allow oil shale production within their borders.

Only three states are affected: Colorado, Utah and Wyoming.

There is no royalty on oil shale, however…

The problem with this is deeper than merely one corrected false statement in a press release. Not only does this incident shed light on who supplies Schaffer’s talking points (the oil and gas industry, as if there was ever a doubt), but putting out such a demonstrably bogus accusation will surely motivate reporters to check everything asserted by the Schaffer campaign for similar falsehoods–a presumption of bad faith that Schaffer can’t afford this late in the game.

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15 thoughts on “Schaffer Forced To Retract Bogus Claim”

    1. I get the point about the offshore drilling issue.  But what does this have to do with Schaffer using crappy propaganda to promote a lie?  Sorry, I’m not following you…or maybe you should post a diary on what you really want to discuss?

      1. …that U-Turn is now gloating about voting for this.  Don’t you?  If he had stuck to his original energy positions, this misinformation would never had happened.  

        Sorry to bring up that Inconvenient Truth  

  6. On the one hand, any politician who publicly corrects a bogus claim they’ve made should be commended. But on the other hand, these “mistakes” are starting to add up for Mr. Schaffer/Wadhams, aren’t they?

    (Off topic, we need a name for the pair since they speak out of the same piehole, like the Mouth of Sauron in “Return of the King”; something like ShaffWad. Any ideas?)

    First there was Schaffer portraying Mt. McKinley/Rainier/whatever as being in Colorado. Then we had him claiming falsely he never got any money from Mr. Orr’s scam alternative fuels foundation. Now we have him repeating oil and gas industry talking points (which DickWad admits were talking points) that were factually bogus.

    SchaffWad has corrected itself each time, but isn’t there a pattern emerging here? These are just the falsehoods they’ve corrected; what about all the others they haven’t?

    2. Schadhams or Waffer.

      It was Denali (aka Mt. McKinley) appearing at the end of “Colorado is my life” ad. Let’s keep the mistakes and lies straight here!

      (He also said in a debate that he didn’t go to Iraq to negotiate the oil deal with the Kurds and hasn’t corrected that strange statement yet either.)

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