Scott Gessler campaigns for fair and honest elections

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 8:54 am, August 12, 2010

Republican candidate for Colorado Secretary of State, Scott Gessler, is making his point in a film clip. Link is here. 
http://www.scottgessler.com/

Tom Tancredo at Jefferson County Republican Mens Club Monday

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 5:25 pm, August 8, 2010

Gubernatorial candidate, Tom Tancredo, will address the Jefferson County Republican Mens [and Womens] Club at 7 – 9 a.m. Monday, Aug. 9. Details:Howard Johnson Denver West, 12100 W 44th Ave, Wheat Ridge, I-70 (exit 266) & Ward Rd, across fromTravel Centers of America Truck Stop.) Meeting $10 tab buys your Davie’s Chuck Wagon Diner (#3) yummy order-your-own-breakfast, super speaker(s), program, Q&A, and camaraderie with some truly great folks.  

About 10 days ago, Tancredo addressed a big crowd at the Highlands Ranch Republicans breakfast. The Arapahoe County Republican Men’s Club has voted to have him debate the GOP candidate for governor.
I suspect more GOP clubs around the state will invite Tancredo to talk to them during the campaign, especially as it becomes clear that he is the real GOP candidate in the race.

Democrats run devastating TV ad that attacks Scott McInnis’ plagiarism

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 2:55 pm, August 5, 2010

A very needed and devastating attack ad against Republican Scott McInnis’ plagiarism should have been sponsored by Repubicans, but it was paid for the Democratic Governors Assn., the Colorado Education Assn. union and the Fort Collins hard left billionaire heiress, Pat Stryker. Here is a link to the killer ad. It doesn’t matter who paid for the ad. What matters is that it is true.
Democrats know that McInnis is more likely to drop out of a three-way race against Tom Tancredo and John Hickenlooper than Dan Maes. McInnis has a future to worry about and there is a slight chance that he’ll get smart and quit if he wins the Aug. 10 primary election. Maes is less likely to drop out if he wins the primary. He apparently thinks he has nothing to lose by continuing to expose himself and his family to more of the withering criticism that he’s been experiencing this week.
If McInnis wins the primary and stays in the race, he might get 10% to 15% of the vote in a three-way race. Maes would get less than 5%. McInnis might get funding from his long-time sugar daddies who know a bought candidate when they have one. Maes probably wouldn’t get much funding at all. If the Democrats don’t have to spend big on electing Governor-elect Hickenlooper, they can put their money to better use electing appointed Obama Democrat Sen. Michael Bennet or Andrew Romaonoff and other Democrats.
The big unknown is whether Tom Tancredo, the third man in the governor’s contest can raise enough money to be competitive with Hickenlooper. It’s also unknown whether the Republicans could get a strong candidate to replace McInnis if he dropped out. 
If there is consensus, it’s that Governor-elect Hickenlooper will win in a three-way race and would beat either McInnis or Maes big in a two-way race.
LINK:
McInnis plagiarism ad funded by teachers union, Democratic Governors Association, Stryker. By Bob Moore.
h/t Complete Colorado.

Dan Maes continues to make a fool of himself

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 9:31 am, August 5, 2010

The Denver Post has decided that the lesser of two ethically-challenged incompetents in the Republicans’ Aug. 10 primary election is Scott McInnis, also known at the Post as “McPlagiarist.”
For the second day in a role, the Post attacks McInnis’ opponent, Dan Maes, for his incompetence as a gubernatorial candidate, his poor understanding of government, his habitual white lies about his career in business and, today, his foot in mouth problems.
The only thing Maes is really good at is shooting himself in the foot and getting bad publicity from the Post, other mainstream media and conservative bloggers.
Now, the only people defending Maes and McInnis are folks who have bought their lies hook line and sinker and who put the GOP ahead of good, honest and competent government. These people don’t know about Google, which future employers will use to check them out. Any employer or client who finds posts on FaceBook or in comments sections on blogs and news sites that reveal that a Maes or McInnis supporter rationalizes lying, cheating and incompetence will not hire that supporter. And honest employers and clients won’t hire people who defend lying and cheating.
So the Post agrees with the chairman of the Colorado GOP. McInnis is “untrustworthy” and Maes is a “joke,” Dick Wadhams has said, according to both Peter Boyles and Tom Tancredo.
Both Maes and McInnis should quit if they win the Aug. 10 primary and let a real Republican win. McInnis is slightly more likely to quit than Maes who seems to think that he’s another Scott Brown.
LINKS:
GOP’s big tent is a real circus; Republicans are without a credible candidate in the governor’s race—but one candidate is even less credible than the other. Denver Post editorial.
Get your facts straight; Dan Maes never released tax forms from the 1990s, so he can’t really claim that the earnings on those forms are being ignored.

Tom Tancredo will speak Friday to Republicans of Highlands Ranch breakfast

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 3:21 pm, July 28, 2010

Tom Tancredo will speak to the Republicans of Highlands Ranch on Friday, July 30.
Time: 6:45 a.m.
Place: Southridge Recreation Center, 4800 McArthur Ranch Road, Highlands Rance
Breakfast: $10.
RVSP: rickmrry@yahoo.com or 303-933-3292.
Original topic, Amendment 42. But you know Tom!

Will Scott McInnis blow off the GOP establishment and Tea Parties that are backing him?

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 7:18 am, July 26, 2010

One reason leading Colorado newspapers and conservative bloggers think Scott McInnis would be a lousy gubernatorial candidate and governor is that not only does he plagiarize and lie, he also blows off his supporters and clients by not doing what he promises to do.
This is why the GOP establishment folks and members of Tea Parties and 9-12 Project groups who are supporting him may be in for a shock.
They think that if they help him beat Dan Maes in the GOP’s Aug. 10 primary, he’ll recognize that he’s blown the election and step down. He’ll let the vacancy committee that was elected at the party’s state assembly in May pick a new candidate—if they can find one.
But there’s a very good chance that the old political pro who never shies from a fight will go to his long time sugar daddies and get their backing for the run against Hickenlooper.
He’ll blow off Colorado Republican chairman, Dick Wadhams, the chairs of county Republican parties, his strongest supporters around the state and everyone else who stands in his way.
He’ll stay in the race against Hickenlooper and possibly Tom Tancredo and he’ll get 5% to 10% of the vote, ensuring victory for Governor-elect Hickenlooper.
Then he’ll blame everyone else for his loss.  

What happens if GOP can’t find 3rd opponent for Tom Tancredo, John Hickenlooper?

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 8:13 pm, July 24, 2010

Some Colorado operatives are predicting that if Tom Tancredo enters the gubernatorial race against John Hickenlooper, the GOP  won’t bother to replace the winner of the primary. Disgraced candidates Scott McInnis and Dan Maes are facing off in the Aug. 10 primary. Does this mean that the GOP would concede the race to Tancredo and Hickenlooper and let them fight it out? Looks that way. If Tancredo gets in, no Republican will want to waste time in a losing campaign against him and Hickenlooper. If McInnis or Maes stays in the race after winning the primary, neither will be able to raise money, and voters will, for the most part choose between Tancredo and Hickenlooper. McInnis or Maes probably would get less than 5% of the votes cast in November. It would be up to Tancredo to make a competitive and even a winning run against Hickenlooper and save the rest of the GOP ticket. In effect, we’d have a two way race. Even if McInnis wins the primary and then quits, the GOP, at best may entice a sacrificial lamb to take on Tancredo and Hickenlooper, and that candidate may get less than 3% of the votes. Colorado Republicans aren’t as dumb as State Chairman Dick Wadhams is pretending they are. The won’t waste votes. They’ll go for Tancredo. What independents will do is harder to predict, and they will pick the winner.
 

Do Republicans want honest, clean government?

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 7:22 am, July 24, 2010

Tom Tancredo’s threat to run for governor of Colorado as a third party candidate against Scott McInnis is creating a moral and ethical challenge for too many so-called Tea Party and good government Republicans. Real Tea Party and good government voters will never vote for McPlagiarist even if it means electing Governor-elect John Hickenlooper, an Obama Democrat. By attacking Tancredo for his courageous threat to run if McInnis doesn’t drop out of the race, win at all cost Republicans are showing that they’re more loyal to the GOP than to their principles. For too many, power is a higher priority than integrity. Power corrupts, and power’s lure is corrupting those who are still backing McInnis and Dan Maes. These are the same people who are angry about how Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and President Obama are corrupting government. Remember what Tom DeLay (D-TX) did to America and the GOP.

Dan Maes’ former boss accuses him of taking customer lists, trying to poach clients

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 3:39 pm, July 21, 2010

There is no one a small business owner despises more than a former employee who quits, takes a list of customers, starts a competing business and tries to win the former employer’s customers. There is nothing more dishonest an employee or former employee can do, because like, plagiarism, it is theft.
That, the left-wing web site, The Colorado Independent, reports is what Don Unger, Dan Maes’ former boss has accused the Republican gubernatorial candidate of doing. Maes left Unger’s firm, Advantage Credit, Evergreen, to start his own firm, which he shut in 2008. On his web site, the Independent reports, Maes claims he merged his firm into Advantage Credit Bureau of Fargo where he became a vice president. The Independent’s enterprising reporter, Scot Kersgaard, called Advantage Credit, and was told by a woman who answered the phone that she’d “never heard of Dan Maes.”
Unger said he’d never hire Maes back, and he wouldn’t vote for him.
If this is true, it is a very sad story about Dan Maes. It shows that in addition to exaggerating his resume, he acted unethically even before he got into politics.
He should lose the vote of every small business owner who is a member of or supporter of the Tea Party. Too many politicians have worked their way into power, misused that power and left office in disgrace. That could happen if Dan Maes became governor of Colorado. 
Dan Maes doesn’t have the experience, talents or ethics that we want in a Colorado governor.
Nice, important scoop, Scot Kersgaard.
LINK:
Non-politician Maes has worked mostly as salesman and mid-level manager; “I wouldn’t hire him back. That’s for sure.” By Scot Kersgaard.

Durango Herald won’t endorse Scott McInnis or Dan Maes

by Donald E. L. Johnson | 12:24 pm, July 18, 2010

In an editorial today, The Durango Herald said it won’t endorse Scott McInnis or Dan Maes. It advises voters to hold their mail ballots as long as possible to give McInnis a chance to explain himself. You can’t defend bad character or 

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