Just when you thought your mailbox, radio and TV were going to be given a reprieve from lies, damn lies and Democrat 527 ads, something like this happens. First it was Nancy Pelosi's Super PAC lying about Scott Tipton, and having their radio ads pulled over the lies. Now it's a subsidiary of ProgressNow sending out negative mail pieces full of distortions and lies about Colorado state House Republicans. A subsidiary with no transparency, whatsoever.
Thinking they were being sneaky, ProgressNow registered the shell group "The Colorado Facts Project" and have been sending out vicious lies about Republicans in competitive state House seats. See left for an example of a hit against Rep. Libby Szabo (R-Arvada). Szabo has been the recipient of more negative attacks from Tim Gill aligned groups than almost any other member of the Legislature. Between her unsuccessful state Senate campaign in 2008 and her win in her state House race last year, Szabo has seen hundreds of thousands spent attacking her character.
Why are these Tim Gill and heiress Pat Stryker funded groups attacking Szabo and other state House members like Robert Ramirez who live in competitive districts? The Democrat money train is trying to buy back the state House. As outlined in the "The Blueprint" deep-pocketed Democrat donors in Colorado realize that a few hundred thousand dollars in negative attacks can help flip a state House seat.
Groups like "The Colorado Facts Project" spend more money in negative, false attack ads than the candidates themselves are able to raise. They flood their constituents' mailboxes with enough lies often enough that they begin to have an effect.
Here at the Peak we are dedicated to pushing these malicious assaults into the open, where public scrutiny can take place and expose the liberal lies and moneyed interests funding the attacks.
It is beyond ironic to the point of infuriatingly hypocritical for ProgressNow to hold protests against the Koch brothers for hosting conferences to discuss conservative politics while at the same time sending out mail pieces full of lies paid for by their liberal special interests — with no disclosure of course.
So how about a little bargain: the Koch brothers and their funding partners will disclose who’s writing checks when the cabal of left wing stealth donors do the same?
Not interested? Not consistent? Not concerned with dripping hypocrisy? Didn’t think so. That is all you need to know about ProgressNow.
This kind of looks like desperation. It probably feels like Tim Gill is losing its grip on the state–which they are–and that the GOP is on a major rebound that could entirely derail the liberal (especially gay rights) agenda in Colorado. The civil unions defeat stung, and a GOP state senate takeover will sting even more.
to be strengthened, but Senate is still outside shot. The reapportionment is looking favorable at the moment, but you never know.
even for 527s. Two of the three bills cited are resolutions which mean nothing, not to mention the oil/gas one implores the feds to remove drilling bans. The other resolution, the pay-go requirement is one of these liberal icons–the theory that tax cuts cost the gov’t money. Again, neither matters whatsoever.
As for the third SB 233, this was sponsored in the Senate by Mary Hodge, a JBC member. It reinstated a 1% reduction for business owners’ sales tax liability. The theory behind this is that business owners must set aside time and resources to tally their sales tax liability. This is especially burdensome for small businesses. Frankly, whoever was coordinating this was grasping at straws because A) it was sponsored by a Democrat, B) a 1% reduction in sales tax liability is accurate in its cost to businesses and C) Hickenlooper supported it.
They have to pick pointless bills like this because on real economy-boosting bills, Szabo and their other targets voted right every time. Like I said about Tipton: anyone who draws the hatred of the left must be doing something right.