The Pueblo Chieftain's Peter Roper reports, with much of the story behind a paywall: Secretary of State Scott Gessler gave a crowd of about 100 local Republicans a quick lesson Tuesday on how to recall state Sen. Angela Giron, D-Pueblo, over her support for gun-control legislation earlier this week. Gessler reminded the crowd he is […]
A release today from the Colorado Democratic Party asks rightful questions about the breakneck speed with which Rep. Mike Coffman, formerly representative of arch-conservative firebrand Rep. Tom Tancredo's district with a voting record to match, is seeking to reinvent his public image after barely surviving in his remapped and competitive new district last year: In […]
Forwarded to us yesterday, here's a letter sent from freshman Colorado Sen. Owen Hill "on behalf" of the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners organization. Let us count the problems: 1. Freshman Sen. Owen Hill represents Colorado Senate District 10, not Colorado Senate District 37. Leading to the next problem, and overall the biggest problem, which is 2. […]
HD-9 Republican Celeste Gamache has always been a bit of a novel candidate. A former JAG officer and veteran of two tours in Afghanistan, Gamache is generally regarded as a smart, articulate, and up-and-coming community leader. In any other district, her resume combined with a smart campaign would make her a serious contender for the State House. Denver’s HD-9, however, leans so far to the left ideologically and in terms of registration that Gamache hasn’t been the beneficiary of Republican efforts to keep the speaker’s gavel — her defeat at the hands of Democrat Paul Rosenthal is a foregone conclusion.
Just because Gamache has the potential to be a great candidate, however, doesn’t mean that she knows what she’s doing. Take, for example, the campaign commercial she released on the web a few months ago. That is to say we think it’s a campaign commercial and not Gamache’s entry to an 80’s video dating service.
Seriously, was this thing filmed and edited in 1987? That tacky synth music at the beginning is a nice touch, as are the words that soar across the screen. Jobs, taxes, seniors: If this is a dating video, we’re not sure those interests would earn Gamache much attention. And is that the Papyrus font? Woah, dude, sleek.
Then, for whatever reason, Gamache appears in a little box surrounded by a neon green background. Here’s a piece of advice for anybody ever making a commercial, political or otherwise: Do not use neon colors. In hindsight, they were barely cool in the 80s and they’re certainly not cool now.
Surrounded by her campaign logo, her website url, and a cell phone number, it’s almost impossible not to mistake Gamache’s spiel for a dating video. She introduces herself as “running for state representative in House District 9,” but it’s just as easy to imagine Gamache saying that she’s “looking for a life partner who she can talk to deep into the night and have fun with.”
We’re not sure why, exactly, Gamache decided to produce this video. Maybe she has a nephew, or more likely, a “tech-savvy uncle” with an old camcorder, who offered to make her a really slick campaign advertisement. Voters aren’t going to see it, which in this case is probably a good thing, but maybe Gamache thought that using innovative new technologies like the YouTubes would get the youth on her side.
In her defense, Gamache’s 84 year old campaign manager probably thought this was a really groundbreaking use of cutting-edge technology. It certainly was when she was in her fifties!
Roll Call publishes a roundup of key races in the Rocky Mountain region today, updating three congressional battles in Colorado–CDs 3, 6, and 7. Excerpts show a pretty good handle on the state of these races, little to disagree with: [W]ith no Senate race, both [Scott Tipton and Sal Pace] will appear directly below the […]
The Grand Junction Sentinel’s Gary Harmon continues the story of embattled GOP HD-54 candidate Jared Wright, and the increasingly desperate Mesa County Republicans trying to nudge him out of a race he is virtually certain to win: With the Mesa County Republican Party leadership paralyzed by the candidacy of Jared Wright, party members have embarked […]
From an absurd fluff piece in the Durango Herald Saturday, we must conclude…not this planet: Social issues won’t be winning elections this year, and Colorado’s Republican Party chairman knows that… The Hispanic vote will play a major role in the election this year, especially in swing states such as Colorado and Nevada where that demographic […]
UPDATE #2: So much for that–major networks call Wisconsin gubernatorial recall for Scott Walker, now leading by a very comfortable margin with 55% of precincts reporting. —– UPDATE 7:10PM MDT: With the polls closed in Wisconsin, exit polling indicates an extremely close race–closer than recent predictions of a 3-5 point Scott Walker victory. —– All […]
It’s been an embarrassingly-long time since our last mailbag, so it’s time to put out the call once again. Ask your questions of Colorado Pols either in the comments section below or at askalva@coloradopols.com We’ll give it a few days to collect questions, and then we’ll answer as many as we can in a later […]
(Bumped into Thursday for self-evident reasons – promoted by Colorado Pols) THURSDAY UPDATE #2: Veterans’ advocacy group VoteVets.org has launched an online petition, calling on signers to tell Rep. Mike Coffman that “Veterans don’t use their service as an excuse to smear the Commander-in-Chief.” From their open letter: American exceptionalism means holding our country to […]