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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.