Shady, liberal billionaire financed Colorado "Ethics" Watch (CEW) — pronounced "sue," it's what they do (h/t Matt Arnold) — has filed yet another election complaint against a conservative group. What else is new? CEW's mision has long been to sue and file complaints against anything that is conservative and moves.
This time it's a demand that
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Americans for Prosperity, who has been running ads in the Colorado Springs mayor's race, disclose their donors. As CEW has refused to disclose their own donors it reeks of more than a little hypocrisy for them to be making this demand. Apparently, liberals don't like sharing the non-disclosure sandbox.
Liberals perfected the shady, third party apparatus here in Colorado and took what Fred Barnes called the "Colorado model" national. But in the most recent cycle conservatives finally got their groove back and utilized the advantages of outside assistance through strong third party groups like Americans for Prosperity and American Crossroads.
And what have liberals done in response? They've cried about shady, untransparent funding, something that was the mother's milk of electoral victories for them for years. Obama is now proposing an Executive Order requiring any companies or individuals seeking to do business with his government disclose all of their donations to all groups that have a political edge to them.
While we find what the Wall Street Journal called Obama's "gangster politics" repugnant, we can't help but chuckle at the blinding hypocrisy and irony of CEW demanding donor disclosure.
(Thanks to the reader who sent along the Gazette article. Keep 'em coming [email protected])
The hypocrisy of “Colorado Ethics Watch” (CEW, pronounced “sue” – it’s what they do) [thanks for the H/T, Peak] truly knows no bounds…
The Colorado Secretary of State, in response to a 10th Circuit ruling (Sampson v. Buescher) holding part of Colorado’s campaign finance laws unconstitutional, last week adopted a rule relaxing the registration and reporting burden on the smallest citizen groups wishing to exercise their 1st Amendment rights.
In hearings before adopting the new rule, over a dozen individual citizens testified in favor. Testifying against? CEW and a pair of other special-interest groups profiting from the disclosure requirements – but NOT subject to those requirements themselves!
Disclosure and reporting for thee, and not for me?
Hypocrisy cubed from CEW (’cause “sue” is what they do!)
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I agree with Underground, CTBC Director — your sig line is lacking.
I’m just waiting for the “Colorado Independent” article about how “non-partisan” this suit is… The Dems are becoming more and more transparent everyday!
for Pols to blog it, Bighorn to write a white paper, ProgressNow to have a news conference…still these sham complaints and hypocrisy are not nearly as bad as these groups parading around under the pretense of being “non partisan”
Debra Johnson will play it straight down the middle as Denver Clerk and Recorder. In Aurora her down the middle approach has garnered the support of Councilman and next Mayor Ryan Frazier as well as Democrat Council members.