We don’t criticize The Denver Post‘s most beloved political reporter, Lynn Bartels, often. Most of the time the hall monitor of Colorado politics is beyond reproach. She’s quick to call out either side when she thinks they’re not telling the full story.
So we thought we’d return the favor.
On Sunday night Bartels penned a blog post, dubbed “a nice op-ed by John Morse” by one commenter, that deserves to be called out.
In the blog post, Bartels lets a one “Carol Hoffman” make incendiary accusations against the Morse recall campaign without a shred of proof. While that’s enough to call the article suspect, our real issue is that Bartels originally made no attempt to contextualize the source of those allegations.
The original post said:
“Among those who contacted the Denver Post, Carol Hoffman, who lives in Morse’s Senate district.”
To Bartels credit, after some conservative howling she added later on that Hoffman was a Morse supporter — an essential piece of context for the allegations.
But Hoffman is more than mere Morse supporter — she’s a full on political partisan who has been heavily involved in the effort to fight the recall against Morse.
Just a concerned citizen, Hoffman is not.
On April 15, Hoffman donated $50 to the Morse front group fighting the recall, A Whole Lot Of People For John Morse. Then again on April 19, Hoffman donated another $50.
On May 8, Hoffman wrote a Letter to the Editor of the left-wing Colorado Springs “Independent” urging readers to refuse to sign the recall petition for Senator Morse.
Hoffman is more than just a constituent and supporter of Morse. She’s part of the political effort to save his legislative hide. Sure would be nice for readers of The Denver Post to know that when reading her allegations.
The worst kind of political failure comes when one fails to listen to the people who hired him. Morse jumped off the wagon and went directly to liberal loony land and gun grabber. Instead of helping to bring more employment to Colorado he ran off over a billion dollars a year in revenue went after the rights of honest folks and we lost over 500 jobs in the works. This guy is an idiot and should be removed from office.
It's time for everyone to stop saying how much they hate to critisize dear Lynn Bartels. She gave a very one-sided opinion concerning Recall Evie Hudak, and never bothered to print the other side of the story. She is as worthless as the paper she works for, in my humble opinion.
Not. That's part of why there was "howling" to begin with.
The voters in Morse's District will remember his having instructed Democrat Senators to ignore their constituents. Senator Morse seems to have forgotten he was elected to represent his District not to be a dictator.
Thank you… We all know there are two sides to every story. It is really decent of you to provide the other side. I hope Morse chokes on his re-election bid!
Shoot the messenger…
What were the allegations? Were they valid? Or not?