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July 23, 2009 05:51 PM UTC
16 Comments
Did you call him for comment? Any evidence whatsoever he had any role in this? Didn’t think so.
Sorry, but Dick invites lightning by being the lightning rod.
This idea likely originated in some statewide Republican forum – anything from an official Wadhams brainstorm to an idea that popped up on a CO-GOP mailing list.
The Governor is a convenient political target – in fact, he’s the one the state GOP has decided to go after so that they have some say in the 2010 election prior to redistricting. If this was a locally hatched protest, they would have recommended talking to State Representatives and Senators; instead, this is designed to be a political ploy aimed at the Governor heading in to next year’s political season.
Guvs – I’m not sure the I-35 bridge collapse is the most subtle instrument in getting the point across to voters, but it might help persuade folks who are more dense than most.
Agreed. Invoking the tragedy in writing would have been enough. There’s no need to show that gruesome photo. It reminds me of something Libertad would do.
I mean, I agree with the premise of the diary–it’s improper to use taxpayer money for a political stunt–but using that photo is completely classless in my book.
But there’s no gore or otherwise visually offensive material in that photo.
There are dead children under that wreckage. Just because there’s not a dead body directly depicted in that photo doesn’t mean it’s not gruesome.
But is this the same logic you would apply to all historical photos? For example, Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, or 9/11?
We respect your point of view but disagree, particularly given the subject matter and context.
Bush wouldn’t have had anything for his 2004 campaign materials…
The photo is not at all out of bounds.
And yes, using photos of 9/11, Hiroshima and Pearl Harbor, to make an emotional appeal to score political points is wrong too.
We’ve got 126 Colorado bridges rated as bad or worse than I-35W when it collapsed (read: “structurally deficient” or “functionally obsolete”). I’m comfortable with whatever website using whatever photograph, so long as I-25 doesn’t collapse on my head when I’m driving downtown via Santa Fe. That bridge scares me.
The knowledge that it could easily happen here. And that knowing it could happen here, our constraints on taxes mean we just wait…
Lefties freaked out. I don’t see this being any different than that, other than the subject matter.
Bush using 9/11 imagery, Pro-life activists using photos of aborted babies, and showing a picture of a bridge collapsing and killing dozens of people to promote FASTER are all examples of trying to sway people through sheer shock value.
Anything to get Colorado voters to realize that can’t keep voting “no” for every budget correction or funding option (read tax) to help fix our crumbling economy and infrastructure.
While nobody is more of a fascist when it comes to transportation than me, I’d like to think we’re a little more decent than this.
I’ll go further than most in terms of using shocking or offensive tactics, but using accident victims is a bit much even for me.
If it showed bodies and blood it would be too much, but this is a very good reminder of what happens when bridges are not maintained. People are visual – words wouldn’t have the same effect.
84th avenue Bridge at I-25 is one of the bridges that will be replaced with this revenue. I certainly understand some of the concern from citizens paying higher fees, especially in this bad economy when folks are struggling, but now atleast this bridge will get replaced and we won’t have a disaster like the one pictured above. There are chunks of concrete literally falling off the bridge at 84th Avenue/I-25. Pretty scary.
FASTER was a tough call. I know good people who voted both YES and NO on this one.
Gov. Ritter stated that he will ask the legislature to make an amendment that would not punish folks as much on late fees on trailers and such. Good call on this one Gov.