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Wadhams: By-law change a false rumor started by Maes supporters

by | 4:35 pm, September 7, 2010 | 9 Comments

I just received the following e-mail from Colorado GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams:

The rumor promoted by Maes supporters was that we were changing the bylaws to allow Republican officials to support non-Republican candidates which was patently absurd.  We can’t change bylaws during election years and only the 450-member state central committee can do so with a two-thirds vote which doesn’t even meet again until March 2011.  As state chairman, I do support the Republican nominee for governor, Dan Maes.

Link to Original post at Rossputin.com.

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  1.   NancyR
      September 7th, 2010 @ 6:27 pm

    The rumor was started by Crista Huff who is by no means a Maes supporter.

  2.   912 groupie
      September 7th, 2010 @ 8:07 pm

    Are you sure? Can you back this up?

  3.   Rossputin
      September 7th, 2010 @ 8:11 pm

    groupie,

    I can’t back up anything other than the fact that Dick Wadhams sent me that exact quote by e-mail.

    I don’t know how he knows who started the rumor, or how anybody else knows that others started the rumor.

  4.   Alix
      September 7th, 2010 @ 8:32 pm

    I heard and the e-mails from my county GOP imply it was started by a staffer at the Constitutionalist.

  5.   Brian Wilson
      September 7th, 2010 @ 9:48 pm

    I don’t know about that. The way the party was moving last week it seems like they were trying to do everything possible to throw Maes under the bus, and I’m pretty sure Republican officials were asking whether they had to support Maes. Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad they do. Sounds more like CYA by Wadhams when the public outcry got too big.

  6.   Crista Huff
      September 7th, 2010 @ 11:30 pm

    Wow. I started that rumor? What else did I do?

    I never discussed the State Party by-laws. I don’t know anything about State Party by-laws, except that you can’t arbitrarily change them.

    Anyone who knows me well knows that I never discuss by-laws, ever, and I only mentioned them briefly a few days ago in response to Lu Busse planning to use the County Party by-laws to have me removed as District Captain, per her email.

    But thanks for the slander. It keeps things interesting.

  7.   Bill Witten
      September 7th, 2010 @ 11:35 pm

    If ever under a bus one should be thrown it is Maes. :-) That sentence is about as logical and right as deciding who to vote for by party affiliation.

  8.   drokkon
      September 8th, 2010 @ 8:42 am

    Crista,

    Over on Facebook, your post is circulating as the source of the rumor that some saw:

    “Second, by-laws charges are not a mysterious, …arbitrary process, and I am not afraid, nor do I have a special Get Out Of Jail Free card. Please understand that I have thoroughly contemplated the various scenarios which could arise if I were to campaign for TT, including understanding what opportunities i could lose and who would viciously attack me — and I was not wrong on that. :)

    Lastly, I am told that the State Party will issue a statement on Tuesday, releasing us from the obligation to support the Rep. candidate for Governor.”

    I’m a Maes supporter, and I know that other Maes supporters perpetuated the rumor, but you seem to give rise to them. Slander? Hardly. Where did YOU hear it from?

  9.   Alix
      September 8th, 2010 @ 2:33 pm

    Seriously, each time I think we could not possibly look stupider in this race, colorado’s conservatives prove me wrong.

    Get a grip people.
    1. Maes is not going to drop out and we cannot force him out. If you don’t like him as a candidate and think one of the others better vote for them.
    2. Dick Wadhams and the GOP leadership have to support the GOP primary winner even if they don’t want to. It is what it is.
    3. Elected Republicans, Republican Candidates, and Former Republicans elected officals decide for themselves personally who they wnt to endorse and Dick Wadhams can’t force them to do anything.
    4. Maes’ supporters need to be prepared to admit that no one other than themselves and there candidate is to blame if he wins or loses.
    5. Back off Crista Huff, nothing in the post you put up would lead me to believe that she started this rumor, also I know she has a sword do make her use it. :-)
    This race is essentially over we need to focus on winning back the house and senate so that we can at least check Hickenlooper to some degree. We also need to take a hard look at why this happened and realize that we have no one to blame but ourselves.

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