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Tambor Williams for Lt. Gov?

by | 3:36 pm, August 16, 2010 | 2 Comments

On my radio show today GOP gubernatorial candidate Dan Maes said his “short list” for Lt. Governor includes someone from Weld County with both executive experience in the Governor’s mansion and legislative experience as an elected member of the Colorado General Assembly.  Face the State has speculated that it might be either Senator Kevin Lundberg or Senator Scott Renfroe.  He wouldn’t say whether he was considering a man or a woman.

Neither Lundberg nor Renfroe has executive experience.

So who does? I thought of Greeley Mayor Tom Norton who served as CDOT director under Governor Bill Owens and was president of the Colorado State Senate during the 1990s.  But that was really just a wild guess — one that I don’t think is accurate.

A listener provided a great guess.  Someone who endorsed Dan Maes well before Scott McInnis’ “water” gate scandal. Someone with both executive experience as the head of DORA and legislative experience as the elected representative from HD 50.  I’m embarrassed that I didn’t think of this person.  My apologies to my friend Tambor Williams, who would make an excellent Lt. Governor.

Tambor most recently appeared on my show to explain her role on the Judicial Performance Evaluation Commission.

Tambor would be a great choice, but then I am biased because I think Tambor would also make a great Governor. Remember this is all just speculation. Maes will make his announcement tomorrow. Until then, have fun speculating.

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Comments

  1.   Laura Victoria
      August 16th, 2010 @ 4:06 pm

    Respectfully, we need someone with name recognition at this juncture.

  2.   Laura Victoria
      August 16th, 2010 @ 4:36 pm

    I recommend everyone listen to this – because of how revealing it is about the incest in the judicial branch. Just listened to the audio. This woman is simply participating in the fig leaf of a process that covers up what a joke of a system for judicial retention we have. I cannot fathom that Amy Oliver would support this Tambor woman.

    The Commission on Judicial Performance gives “retain” recommendations to literally over 99 percent of the judges up for retention election in any given cycle, including this election in November. This pro-incumbent judicial union operates on taxpayer money. Without opponents, there is little incentive for money to go to “no-retains.” This year is tad different because of Clear the Bench and the opposition to the judicial scum operating with the Commision’s blessing in Larimer County – Jolene Blair and Terry Gilmore.

    The commission that this woman serves as an enabler for, deems ethical violations before person was appointed a judge irrelevant – even if their own coverup of their corrupt actions were responsible for their getting their appointments in the first place.

    Blair and Gilmore were the DAs involved in the wrongful conviction of Tim Masters – the first police perjury prosecution in Colorado history, headed up by Ken Buck as special prosecutor. These two pieces of legal refuse were not subject to prosecution because of absolute immunity granted to prosecutors back in the 1500s.

    But common sense tells us a system that “passes” 99 + percent of its students, is nothing more than the judicial equivlent of a teachers’ union for judges.

    Why the support for such an establishment apologist? The …Woman, to put it politely, urges voters to look at the commission evaluations to become “educated” about how to vote. So if we looked at those we would assume 99.9 percent of those judges should be retained.

    Wow! These judges must be superlawyers, right? No, not really. Put another way, is there any group of government employees that you’d say deserve 99.5 percent “retention.”

    Lots of misleading info in this interview. Can’t really blame poor Tambor. The Comm. on Jud. Performance is so complex, as is the whole judicial branch, that I’m sure it’s confusing to even a member of the commission.

    This segment should be called “Sleeping with the Enemy.”

    None of this should be interpreted as an aspersion against Amy as an interviewer. She’s great,and I expect her to be on a national stage soon. I’ve just bookmarked her radio site. Tambor should have made it clear that judicial branch obfuscation with the public is intentional, not accidental.

    She just said this is not “window dressing.” Really? I would contend that a system that rubber stamps over 99 percent of the group is in fact window dressing. Granted, many get the writing on the wall and stand down before getting a retention decision. But just think about the Larimer losers getting a retain. These scum cost a man 10 years in prison and a county 10 million bucks.

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