The Democrats botched the roll out of their national party-anointed Congressional candidates badly. The Denver Post's publishing of comments by Congressman Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) about his recruitment efforts in Colorado caught the entire party apparatus off guard.
This is not how Rick Palacio, the new CO Democrat Party Chair who used to work for the Congressional leader leaker, wanted to start his tenure atop the State Party. Nor how Brandon Shaffer, Sal Pace and Perry "Massage Therapist Millonaire" Haney wanted their campaigns begun either. While Shaffer and Haney have refused comment so far, Sal Pace begrudgingly admitted to a campaign on Friday.
The press have noticed the deer in headlights reaction to the leak.
From Eli Stokols at Fox 31 in an article entitled "Did Hoyer spill Shaffer, Pace's beans?"
DENVER — Senate President Brandon Shaffer did not return phone calls Friday or make any public comment following Thursday's Denver Post story in which House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer admitted that Shaffer, as well as Colorado House Minority Leader Sal Pace, are committed to running for Congress next year.
Ernest Luning of the Colorado Statesmen, of our 7 Twitter Accounts Worth Following, notes on Twitter that the "cat is out the bag" on the DCCC-approved slate as well.
Stokols also points out how badly the timing was for Hoyer to let it slip, but especially for Senate President Brandon Shaffer.
Hoyer's comments, meant to convey that he didn't have much convincing to do in Colorado as far as getting potential candidates to run, failed to account for the local political context, coming just a week after the end of a legislative session marked by a simmering feud between Shaffer and House Speaker Frank McNulty.
McNulty, R-Highlands Ranch, who ripped Shaffer for proposing congressional districts that would make it easier for him to run in the Fourth C.D., said at session's end that Shaffer's possible announcement of a run for Congress would be "an exclamation mark" that punctuates and validates his criticisms.
Last week we pointed out that the "Brandon-Mander" had come to home to roost. Looks like it just laid its first egg.
“Press Catches Dems BS’ing …”
Hah! If you would listen to Rush more often, you would know that the (liberal) media are in league with the Democrats. So this was obviously a deliberate, coordinated effort by the Democrats and the commie-lib news media to trick you guys into trumpeting these candidacy announcements yourselves and giving them free publicity. And you all fell for it, hook, line, and sinker!
Well, if the first thing people read about Shaffer and Pace’s campaigns is the Peak Politics article, that’s probably not a good thing for their campaigns. This isn’t toilet paper or Mentos, all publicity is not good publicity in politics.
Guess we forgot about all that wonderful PR Sally “The Fist” Pace and Brandon “Flower Power” Shaffer got for A) producing redistricting maps roundly rejected throughout the state and B) not even letting the maps to be voted on or debated on the floor and C) using redistricting to further their own aspirations.
If being a state-wide laughingstock is “Good PR,” I don’t wanna know what you call bad PR
Free publicity does not necessarily equal good publicity. The Dems are disorganized and focused only on their own careers, and Hoyer’s ill-timed comments prove it.
N’yuk, n’yuk, n’yuk. Which party nominated Dan Maes for governor just last year? According to this very blog, Dan Maes is “Jim Jones, minus a following,” a “village idiot,” and a “fraud” who “spews contemptuous claptrap.” If nominating a guy like that as the party’s standard-bearer and then running a party-boss-sanctioned independent candidate against him in the general election is not disorganized, what is?
If you want to justify the Dems shitshow of a campaign “announcement” by pointing to Dan Maes, go ahead. Living in the past is always the best way to “win the future.”
Are you trying to prove that Republican leadership wasn’t organized last cycle, or that Democrat leadership this cycle is? Because either way, you are neither correct or convincing.
Maes was a fluke that was not the fault of Republican leadership. It was a result of the Tea Party fighting the party leadership, not disorganization of the leadership itself.
On the other hand, Democrat leadership this cycle has proven that all levels are not doing a very good job of communicating intents and goals, which shows disorganization.
Your argument reminds me of Thank You For Smoking: You’re not proving that chocolate ice cream is the best, just that vanilla ice cream is not.
he was the result of a serious candidate being undermined by the Denver Post, Channel 7 and liberals playing up false accusations. Those accusations have just been discredited. That said, he won by less than 1 percent. The idiot Maes thought that by winning with that little margin when 17,000 primary voters didn’t even cast a vote meant he was the righteous nominee. I’m not a huge McInnis fan, but that whole thing really is upsetting, especially given what news came out today.
After the redistricting debacle followed by this botched PR stunt, fraud doc, Shaffer’s arrogance and Sally “The Fist’s” nonsensical and dangerous leftist ramblings, it begs the question–can Colo Dems do anything right?