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July 01, 2009 01:15 AM UTC
32 Comments
These big districts are hard to campaign and hard to know the players.
Any Durango to Montrose to Cortez is a big area. I know most of our west slopers are GJ, but any help is appreciated.
people in DC are already a bit bugged by the ‘Colorado Cabal.’ This won’t help…
was Isgar named the “state director for rural development” for all states or CO only? (I found the article ambiguous.) If CO only, why would anyone in DC care that someone from CO is directing things in rural CO?
One would expect a member of the Colorado Cabal to run the homestate office (it’s in Lakewood and has six other outlets through the state).
Plus, I thought the Colorado Cabal was mostly an Interior phenom, what with Strickland on down. I wasn’t aware we’d infiltrated other departments to the extent there was a scary nickname.
but yes its mostly Interior that I have heard it in reference to, and of course the lead USDA rep for CO would be from CO… or should be, one supposes rather than from, say South Bend. So good on Isgar.
I think it could be an interesting race down there. The demographics have changed a lot from Montrose south, really. San Miguel and La Plata went around 60-70% for Obama; but I believe Montrose County was nearly the inverse of that.
Ellen Roberts, in the state house from Durango, is a progressive Repub. Not sure if she is interested, but she is smart and has moderate appeal.
Now I recall hearing that was the position (overseeing the state office basically) rather than a cabal member, so I retract my earlier remark…
she’s running in ’10. The Republicans have apparently averted a primary with the other ambitious legislator from that corner of the state.
would be a gift for Republicans. He’s wrapped up in so much controversy surrounding the Montrose Airport that he was ousted by a no-name back bencher Republican in the last election.
Believe me, he’s no Jim Isgar. Ellen Roberts will eat him for lunch.
That I agree with MM.
The Democrats will be hard-pressed to find a replacement who’s anything like him. Patterson is likely not it: he was beaten in his re-election race for Montrose County commissioner, and Montrose has a lot of votes in that district.
We’ll see who surfaces from Durango.
Patterson has no union position on his website for commissioner. I wonder what the union folks think about that glaring and disconcerting absence.
You are now officially the site’s anti-labor concern troll. I know, I know, Libertad is going to get upset about this, but gosh darn it, it’s the truth.
Besides, I didn’t bring it up–labor did, does, and always will. I’m not anti-labor either–I just don’t think the law needs to be changed. Most Democrats agree with me.
that there is a ‘silent majority’ of ‘middle road’ Dems such as yourself, that oppose those things that you do.
But your saying it doesn’t make it so.
I’ve helped a lot of candidates knocking on doors, and to a “T”, the only people who have cared about labor unions are people who are in them, and to a lesser extent hardcore Democratic activists (like you).
And continue to. I know that you hate labor unions, and that you think there’s some kind of massive conspiracy on here by Democratic activists to silence you or something, but when you continuously harp on unions–even when there’s zero context to bring it up–it gets tiresome.
How many county commissioners — D or R — have positions about labor unions on their websites???? (For that matter, how many have websites?)
I’ve got news for you: labor issues aren’t a big deal for county government, ESPECIALLY for a county the size of Montrose. I’m pretty sure that the Western Colorado Labor Council will be just fine with Bill Patterson on Labor issues.
“Labor issues aren’t a big deal for county government”…Now, how do you reconcile that statement with the howling by unions against the governor for vetoing a bill which would have overridden county government statutes on labor organizing by firefighters?
which fire departments would have been affected by that bill?
Normally include positions on labor unions on their website? That’s a pretty specific thing to have a position about on your campaign website.
Union members, with the exception of teachers, are few and far between on the Western Slope. And the teachers aren’t a bloc for anybody.
So not a factor.
Ellen Roberts is incredibly popular in Republican circles – no way she gets punked – you’re going to see A LOT of support behind Roberts and for good reason
BTW – when my film played at the Durango Film Festival back in 2008, I recall meeting quite a few people in Durango who couldn’t talk about how much they love Sen Isgar – he was clearly a very popular, grassroots, guy
meant to say “couldn’t STOP talking about how much they love” —- meant it as a compliment to Senator Isgar, not insult
they might see in Roberts a model for success in the rest of the state. Happily (for me) the party is mostly led by the likes of Gardner, Penry, and Janet Rowland. With a few washed up old guys (Andrews, Caldera, Schaffer) playing QB from their comfy lazy boy.
Perhaps that’s why Josh Penry was first out of the gate to endorse Ellen Roberts before she announced her candidacy!
http://www.durangoherald.com/s…
If you came up for air once in a while from your constant assault on Penry, Wadhams, the energy industry, freedom, etc. you might have noticed.
Yet another bogus claim of an “assault on freedom” from someone who is no moderate. Yawn.
How is working to ensure that citizens have the freedom to breath clean air, drink clean water, and not have to pay hihger taxes to fund clean ups of the messes of private business an “assault on freedom?” Or an assault on anything at all?
Sometimes spouting from the ideological cue cards provides unintended humor. For these frequent opportunities to chuckle, I am thankful to MesaModerate and his/her ilk.
Twice re-elected, knows the issues.
can a member of the southwest CO ponytail contingent make it in the statehouse?
Heck yea, ponytails are welcome. Ben Nighthorse Campbell ran for House District that reprented Durango, Corter, Pagosa and Silverton in 1980 as a Dem with a ponytail. Jimmy Sukla introduced him as an Indian, not a hippy, at the Cortez Sell barn.
He went by Ben Campbell and cut the pony tail in 1986 to run against Mike Strang.
White is probably the best candidate the Dems have.
in the vacancy appointment?
I have not heard anything, but some of us were talking at lunch. They need a progressive, independent voice in that seat to keep it in the D column and White was the consensus choice.
Is Amanda Baily still around? She was another name that came up. She gave Sen. Larson a run for his money once.