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Posting “a think on Cleve Tidwell”

by | 8:11 am, April 20, 2009 | 11 Comments

So yesterday I receive this verbatim email message from a mysterious “Victorila Rasheem” (all errors of spelling and syntax preserved):
I think taht your website should do a think on Cleve Tidwell. Most say that he has the support of most if not all of the major donors in the state. Also much of the grassroots is excited for him and is backing him to be the senator for colorado. I do not know if Dick Wadhams found him or not but if he did it was a good find because he is a good candidaet and wiill win. He is a very good speaker and will be at most events when he is senator because he will represent people in Colorado. Also, he has not spoken with the press so whatever you might hear if anything is probably just their way of trying to create a story or gossip. He has wonderful friends in the news media and when the time is right he will discuss with them. He is a very busy man but he will get the job done because that is his way. 
  The source of the email message was “coloradovoterinthesenaterace@gmail.com” — a real random coincidence if ever there was one. Read the message carefully, and you’ll understand how bizarre and far-fetched and meaningless are the claims contained therein. Guess I just should be thankful that it wasn’t an email from Mr. Tidwell’s Nigerian benefactor asking for a $1,000 campaign contribution to be delivered to a foreign post office box. But following on the heels of another Colorado blogger’s experience with spam from Cleve Tidwell supporters, I shouldn’t be too surprised by the development. If the true origin of this message was from a Tidwell supporter, all I can say is thank you for attempting to insult my intelligence. I briefly met Mr. Tidwell in person once and heard him testify twice at the state legislature, and such tactics doubtless are not helping his cause. Perhaps he might even publicly disavow them. To me, except for the mystery of who could possibly have such a motive, it makes more sense that this email is part of a scheme by someone trying to undermine Mr. Tidwell’s nascent quasi-candidacy. Because it’s closer to the actual effect. The main reason I’m posting this for public eyes to see is in hopes of tracking down other messages from “coloradovoterinthesenaterace@gmail.com”, and hopefully put the silly mystery to rest before I pursue writing anything more about Cleve Tidwell here. If you too have been contacted by this shadowy Gmail account, please feel free to post a comment or drop a line.
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  1.   Rossputin
      April 20th, 2009 @ 1:11 pm

    I had the same comment attempted to be posted on my site. I deleted it…just seemed inappropriate to the particular post and more like some strange person was just trying to throw that thing out there and hope it sticks.

  2.   El Presidente
      April 20th, 2009 @ 1:25 pm

    Received the same email, from the same email address on April 7.

    Followed by this:

    Victorila Rasheem
    toslapstickpolitics@gmail.com

    dateTue, Apr 7, 2009 at 8:20 PM
    subjectWhy would you not respond?
    mailed-bygmail.com

    hide details Apr 7 (12 days ago) Reply

    Why would you not respond? It is because you want more liberals in the repubican party so that we can keep losing elecitons?Look at John Mccain and where he got us, because that is where we will go if we do not have someone with conservative calues and international business executive experience and only Cleve Tidwell has that. Who else might have it? Not Ryan Frazier, that is for sure.

  3.   The Scarlet Letter
      April 20th, 2009 @ 5:46 pm

    Did you know that if you vote for Cleve Tidwell the Broncos will win the superbowl? It must be true, someone wrote it on the internets.

    http://neighbors.denverpost.com/viewtopic.php?f=68&p=757220

  4.   Bubba
      April 21st, 2009 @ 2:23 pm

    TSL…

    LOL that link is hilarious!

  5.   Peoples Press Collective » “A Think on Cleve Tidwell”
      April 22nd, 2009 @ 6:31 am

    [...] been observing with somewhat detached amusement the various “astroturfing” attempts (here, here, here, and even here) by supporters of presumed (as yet officially unannounced, although [...]

  6.   Team Tidwell
      April 22nd, 2009 @ 5:26 pm

    As someone who has been working closely with Cleve Tidwell on his potential bid for U.S. Senate, I can assure you that this message did not come from anyone associated with the campaign.

    On a related note, the grassroots support for Cleve that can be found on other blog sites is real. There are many new faces in politics that want to get the word out about their guy. It has been our experience in dealing with Rocky Mountain Right, as well as watching Rocky Mountain Right and their dealings with – or refusal to deal with and negative rebuking of- other candidates, that any grassroots support for a candidate that does not “appear” to be the front-runner will be written off as spam by the blog administrator.

    The nature of grassroots is that the central command does not control or direct the enthusiasm of those supporters. The proof of grassroots support is evident in the continued positive blogging for Cleve; it continues because people are excited, not because it is coordinated.

    -Team Tidwell

  7.   M Sullivan
      April 22nd, 2009 @ 6:51 pm

    Methinks the Scarlet Letter has an unhealthy obsession with Cleve Tidwell… he seems to be searching for all the obscure mentions of Tidwell on every channel. Not to mention his frequenting of Tidwell’s facebook page…

  8.   T.L. James
      April 22nd, 2009 @ 8:26 pm

    Methinks “M Sullivan” is the same person posting as “Team Tidwell”.

  9.   The Scarlet Letter
      April 22nd, 2009 @ 8:32 pm

    You mean I know how to use Google?

  10.   M Sullivan
      April 22nd, 2009 @ 9:32 pm

    T.L. you must be confused. I suppose it’s easy to lob guesstimates of association over the internet when you can’t see anyone else… There are many students who support Cleve at the Auraria campus- i.e., MSCD and CU Denver. If there are similar IP # showing up, well, that’s because students for Tidwell are using those computers available on campus, with a shared network…

    Not every blogger is at it 24 hours a day from their parent’s basement (ahem, Scarlet Letter)

    Some of us do go to school and blog from there, as well as blog from home.

  11.   Brian
      April 22nd, 2009 @ 10:44 pm

    While this supporter may be unsophisticated, I’ll give my take about the candidate himself. I heard Mr. Tidwell speak at the Denver County GOP Assembly in February; seemed to have some common sense and good ideas. Given the current political climate, I think he’d have a puncher’s chance in the primary… that is, with the right political staff and supporters.

    And NOT folks like the above e-mailer who is obviously “Un-Hooked From Phonics” (not to mention spelling and decent grammar).

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