Seemingly left alone without any adult supervision over the holiday weekend, Gov. Polis and the First Gentleman got into all sorts of trouble on social media.
The governor must have been tripping his brains out on shrooms or something to think his progressive base wouldn’t notice if he acknowledged the Christian celebration of the birth of Christ on Christmas like this.
— ForAmerica (@ForAmerica) December 26, 2023
Meanwhile, gubernatorial spouse and vexatious animal rights activist Marlon Reis spent his holiday trolling noted Colorado agricultural columnist Rachael Gabel on Facebook, because she refuses to spew in lockstep with government propaganda that wolves are cute and cuddly.
His hissy fit was such that it got the attention of editors at The Gazette and Colorado Politics, which carries Gabel’s work. Gabel is also assistant editor of The Fence Post Magazine, and a rancher.
Her crime against Reis?
Gabel is the journalist who broke the story that two of the wolves released in Grand County by Polis and state park officials came from an Oregon pack that have preyed on livestock since last year.
The Five Points Pack wolves injured one calf and killed another in separate depredations in July of 2023; killed a cow on Dec. 5, 2022; and, injured a 900-pound yearling heifer on July 17, 2022, according to Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Livestock Depredation Investigations.
Reis didn’t challenge the accuracy of the article that’s run in several Colorado newspapers, he attacked her personally and professionally in a string of Facebook posts which he deleted after the editorial busted him for behaving like Donald Trump on a Twitter rant.
It also makes us wonder whether our politically astute governor winced while reading Reis peevishly accuse Gabel of seeking, “not to report the truth, but to inspire fear.” Or, where Reis pettily huffed in the same post, “I’ll never understand how she got hired as a journalist.”
For the record, Gabel, who is also a rancher, “got hired as a journalist” because she has in-depth knowledge of agriculture, wildlife, natural resources and rural Colorado life, and she has extensive experience covering those and related areas. She renders it all in a clear and compelling voice. In addition to writing her column, she also serves as assistant editor of the rural- and ag-themed news outlet, The Fence Post Magazine. And that’s when she’s not rescuing calves in the middle of the night during a blizzard on Colorado’s eastern plains.
The editorial continues:
Reis can come across as knowledgable and articulate even if his views on wildlife tend to be outlandish. (Not all wolves kill livestock, he insists in one post. “Each wolf is an individual. How would you like to be judged by the behavior of your parents?”) He ought to train his sights on his disagreements over policy — rather than disparaging the press and public.
Gabel also responded on her own Facebook page:
“I was really disappointed how many comments on his posts expressed fear and anger that the ranchers would shoot the wolves. I don’t think that’s a real threat nor do I think the CPW staff is in danger from the ranchers.”
This isn’t the first time Reis has caused a scene over his radical animals-are-people-too views. Sure it plays well with the crazy base on the left, but those kind of people are proving to be fickle political partners who flit from cause to cause with little knowledge about why they’re so angry all of the time.
Last week it was people of color, this week it’s predators, next week it’s Palestinians. There’s no telling where their loyalty lands anymore.
No wonder the first couple are acting bonkers lately.