Desperate to draw attention away from the out-of-state interests funding the front group for Senate President John Morse, left-wing blog Colorado Pols wrote an entire piece this morning based on what we now know was an error by the Associated Press.
Supporters of the Democratic Senate President, like Pols, have been badly burned by a narrative that contrasts the local Colorado Springs grassroots effort driving the recall to a national liberal special interest group – America Votes – that is funding the pro-Morse side.
When Pols thought one of the leaders of the recall, Laura Carno, admitted to taking contributions from out of state they pounced, hoping to level the narrative playing field.
Unfortunately for Pols and Morse supporters, it turns out the money driving the Morse recall effort is 100% homegrown so far.
An AP reporter misquoted Carno as saying the donations her group, I Am Created Equal Action, had given to the Morse recall effort came from out of state. In fact, every penny that Carno has contributed to help oust Morse thus far has come from here in Colorado. Correction from the AP:
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — In a story May 28 about Democrats facing recall efforts, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a conservative consultant said out-of-state donors helped fund her donation to a potential recall of the president of the Colorado State Senate. Laura Carno was misquoted; she said donors from other states have contributed to one of her organizations that will help in the recall but that her main donation to the recall effort to date came from a separate group funded by Colorado donors.
We asked Carno for additional comment on the controversy and what she thinks it means about the broader campaign. Here’s what she told us over email:
I am pleased that the AP corrected the quote regarding out of state donors. Every penny contributed to I Am Created Equal Action is from Colorado. This has been a consistent tactic from the Morse camp. They want to talk about anything but the laws that caused this recall effort. If they think the laws are good, and we think they are bad, we should be having that debate.
That’s the central problem for Morse supporters — in defending Morse they’ve decided to talk about everything but the “insane…absolutely nuts” gun bills pushed by the Senate President.
From falsely accusing recall organizers of being sex offenders and criminals to this latest attempt to shift the narrative, it’s clear the pro-Morse forces are desperate.
It turns out A Whole Lot of People for John Morse doesn’t have a whole lot to work with.
Kudos to the AP for correcting the error. It looks like the voters of SD11 will be getting a chance to do the same very soon.
Politics is about power. Nothing more nothing less.
Morse is the worst of the bunch. His lying is shocking and he needs to be removed.
Hypocrisy is their modus operandi. Always has been. That said, Recall Morse is locally funded. It is Morse's "a couple of people trying to look like more than they are" who have accepted Bloomy's bucks to fight the recall. The word "hypocrite" is synonymous with "progressive liberal" any more.
How much money did Morse get from out of state during his election? If he received any out of state monies, the argument against the Recall effort for getting out of state money is hypocrisy.
Don't get cocky
Let's face it, though. A Whole Lotta People don't really care what the truth is. The things their minions were telling folks last weekend while standing right next to us was A Whole Lotta Lies.
Bu-Bye Morse…
Got to laugh at this one! It has got to suck, getting egg on their face! NOT! With all the lies Morse and his supporters are coming out with, if you look at it, everything "they" say the recall effort is doing like threatening, harassing, and other wonderful acronyms, they are doing that stuff not the recall effort! The bad thing about splitting hairs is, they are usually truths that their side doesn't like!
Friends and I have contributed to the recall and volunteered our time. We are all Colorado tax payers and lo-o-ong time residents — some, like myself, Third Generation Coloradans. We're not religious whack-jobs, either. This is grassroots action.
Seems to me your splitting hairs, one of her groups that will help in the recall IS in fact receiving out of state money, just because the main group is supposedly at this point anyway, getting only in state money, doesn't mean the whole recall effort is in state funded…Amazing how ignorant you think we all are!