Colorado voters should know by now that when they elected Scott Gessler to high state office and Mike Coffman to Congress they were encouraging some measure of sleaze.
Sleaze: "...anything cheap, vulgar, shoddy, etc......"
Gessler, in his first term as secretary of state, has already run up a $1,452 bill at taxpayer expense for a junket to Florida to attend Republican-sponsored events. He also reimbursed himself $1,400, without documentation, from a discretionary expense account.
Coffman has been caught borrowing the written words of two other Republican congressmen -- verbatim, and without attribution -- to flesh out newspaper columns under his name.
Lotta sleaze goin' on here.
Please keep that in mind for the next time you see those names on a ballot.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Friday, October 19, 2012
GRE-E-E-E-D
If you looked at the TV listings of ESPN and ESPN2 Friday, you saw what I mean.
It's greed, pure greed, by the professional sports industry.
Here it is, mid- to late October, which is traditional football time, except for the World Series. So now there are also pre-Series baseball playoffs and, look, there's women's professional basketball on national television.
Well, it's all to satisfy the greed of sports moguls.
Basketball used to sort of wait for the end of the football season. Now its greedy owners can't even wait for the end of baseball.
As long as gullible fans have a buck in their pockets, the sports industry will be grabbing.
. Never mind what the calendar says. The calendar is stingy, old-fashioned.
Never mind that a fan's toes get frosty at the ballpark in October.. Or that he breaks into a sweat driving to see a basketball playoff in late spring..
That's pro sports nowadays. Omnipresent. Get used to it, sucker..
It's greed, pure greed, by the professional sports industry.
Here it is, mid- to late October, which is traditional football time, except for the World Series. So now there are also pre-Series baseball playoffs and, look, there's women's professional basketball on national television.
Well, it's all to satisfy the greed of sports moguls.
Basketball used to sort of wait for the end of the football season. Now its greedy owners can't even wait for the end of baseball.
As long as gullible fans have a buck in their pockets, the sports industry will be grabbing.
. Never mind what the calendar says. The calendar is stingy, old-fashioned.
Never mind that a fan's toes get frosty at the ballpark in October.. Or that he breaks into a sweat driving to see a basketball playoff in late spring..
That's pro sports nowadays. Omnipresent. Get used to it, sucker..
Saturday, October 6, 2012
saphead
Giddy Gesssler
Colorado's secretary of state, Scott Gessler, the state's chief elections officer, may need to find a quiet corner and spend a while in cool contemplation. He seems to feel in danger of being demonized by powerful forces of what he calls the extreme "left."
He can talk plainer than that. He means Democrats.
Recently, in a public forum, Secretary Gessler suggested there were more than 11,000 noncitizens registered to vote in Colorado. That would be a shocking number, of course, if true, which it isn't. Not by a long shot.
Specifically, a total of 141 such potential vote-cheaters have been identified, of whom 35 actually voted, according to the Denver Post..
In his scatter-gun blast, Gessler doesn't specifically identify his targets as Democrats. Instead he refers to them as a disloyal left wing that is "willing to lie," that will knowingly register noncitizens and will "play the racism card" to win elections.
No matter. Gessler's just a political sap who gets a lot of Republican votes. It happens every couple of years in our state, and we extremists always survive.
Colorado's secretary of state, Scott Gessler, the state's chief elections officer, may need to find a quiet corner and spend a while in cool contemplation. He seems to feel in danger of being demonized by powerful forces of what he calls the extreme "left."
He can talk plainer than that. He means Democrats.
Recently, in a public forum, Secretary Gessler suggested there were more than 11,000 noncitizens registered to vote in Colorado. That would be a shocking number, of course, if true, which it isn't. Not by a long shot.
Specifically, a total of 141 such potential vote-cheaters have been identified, of whom 35 actually voted, according to the Denver Post..
In his scatter-gun blast, Gessler doesn't specifically identify his targets as Democrats. Instead he refers to them as a disloyal left wing that is "willing to lie," that will knowingly register noncitizens and will "play the racism card" to win elections.
No matter. Gessler's just a political sap who gets a lot of Republican votes. It happens every couple of years in our state, and we extremists always survive.
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