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A note to the media, from an aggravated reader/listener/viewer

Dear media ~
About your increasing elevation of Congressman Ken Buck (R CO):

Back in the day a Colorado congresswoman, Marilyn Musgrave, brought charges against a constituent for leaving dog poo outside her office door; the constituent had been pleading with Musgrave to stop cluttering her mailbox with campaign flyers, one of which was used as wrapping for the dried poo. You might remember that the episode was featured on one of Olbermann’s “Worst Person” segments. Anyway, the case was prosecuted by DA Ken Buck who was, coincidentally, a campaign chair for Musgrave. The court action cost the county taxpayers more than $100K, and even in deep red Weld County the jury took about eleven seconds to reach a verdict that did not favor the congresswoman. Subsequently, there were considerable rumblings, even amongst his own party, about Buck’s ethics.

That wasn’t the first time for such rumblings about him. Prior to his DA stint he had been discharged from the state DOJ, booted out the door for egregious ethics violations. He managed to fail upwards, gaining the office of DA. In addition to the dog poo fiasco he was part of the team that put together the raid on the local meat plant scant weeks before Christmas, wherein the number of arrests far exceeded the warrant; the arrestees were to remain in local custody, but were bussed to Denver whence many were summarily deported, many leaving children in homes where one or both parents were now gone. More recently, while serving as chair of the Colorado GOP, he got busted for suborning perjury from a precinct captain.

He got himself spanked by the state supreme court for his raid on a tax-prep office that catered to Spanish-speakers. He helped himself to their files, rifling through them in search of illegalities, managing somehow to miss the very salient point that these people were, unlike some of his donors, actually paying taxes. His losing appeal cost the county taxpayers another $150K. Shortly after arriving in DC he posted that he’d lost his lunch appetite upon seeing Obama walking with a group of brown-skinned young people, apparently deeming that the president was coddling those here illegally; turns out those young people were from an indigenous tribe’s reservation.

Taking a break from hunting “illegals” he made news by refusing to prosecute a confessed rapist, stating that he considered to victim to be merely suffering a case of “buyer’s remorse.” Then he opined, on national television, that being gay was the same as being alcoholic, just a matter of choice. Disgustingly, but not surprising, he voted against renewing the Violence Against Women Act. He startled quite a few people when he chose to decorate his DC office with his flag-decorated rifle, inviting his colleagues (including Boebert) to join him in fondling the thing; there are pictures.

There’s more, so very much more. And it’s all readily available. Please learn about him before you keep showcasing him as some kind of heroic alternative to his party’s shenanigans, something he most certainly is not. Truth does matter, as should your credibility.

Ummm is right

Nuff sed

Jordan can count on their votes.

How many J6 co-conspirators in the House are voting for Jordan in hopes that he will be a prophylactic against any eventual exercise of accountability?


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Gym simmers

Pass the rolaids . . .

Thoughts while watching the House GOPers

When you make it a habit to contrive a majority via gerrymandering, you might just find yourself in the land of unintended consequences. In the present republican caucus, the stark inevitability is a profound dilution of learning and purpose, a formula that requires brash ignorance while prohibiting the integrity that drives meaningful leadership.

In all this the more frightening aspect is the reality of their rabidly supportive voting base, the offspring of decades spent in denigrating public education. We ought not be surprised given that it is the republican party that has consistently endeavored to pull funding from our schools. Meanwhile, their circus is not remotely entertaining; let’s hope they come to their senses before they drag us all to the rapidly approaching point of no return.



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