In a fawning interview with the Pueblo Chieftain, new Democrat Party Chair Rick Palacio made a comment that struck us as one of the bigger whoppers we've heard in a while.
While talking about the losses incurred by Democrats in the last cycle, Palacio had the gall to claim "Democrats will never be in the position of financial advantage for outside money that Republicans have."
Rick — you ever read a little tome called The Blueprint? It kind of got a little attention here in Colorado.
Never heard of the AFSCME? They were the biggest spender of any outside group last election.
What is so galling about this claim is not only do Democrats have the resources to compete, especially in outside money, but Democrats in Colorado practically invented the game of outside money. A few billionaires have virtually single handedly funded the campaigns of Democrats since 2004.
Palacio is either flat out lying, and a poorly constructed lie at that, or he is unbelievably ignorant of how elections have worked in the last decade in Colorado.
Either way, Palacio is showing himself to be out of his league already.
If you’re going to lie, at least make it plausible…
I can’t imagine that he’s ignorant of the way Democrat billionaires and unions have rigged the elections here in Colorado. If he is, he’s about to get a rude awakening! It seems more likely that he’s trying to pull the wool over the voters’ eyes, which is just despicable. Predictable, but despicable.
as a Jedi? “There is no Democrat outside money.”
Yes, in Rick’s version of the world the Dems are always underfunded by the evil corporations on the other side of the aisle. There’s no such thing as forced public employee union dues that fund their outside funding campaign.
See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
On another note — I’m sorry, but that picture makes it really hard to take him seriously. I can’t get past the fact that it looks like an opening shot in Real World 47: Denver.
After watching hundreds of paid walkers descend into my hometown, it’s laughable he would try to state something so incredibly wrong.