another example of Repub arrogance... congressman leaves threat on voicemail...

[salin]

to constiuents based on a letter to the editor. Seriously? And he didn't think that this would be released? Intimidation of citizens based on a letter to the editor?

Who - Congressman Lamborn (never heard of him)

Looks like this is a brand new story - so maybe the details aren't yet out. Maybe a hoax (except he keeps telling the he wants to meet with them to correct what he claims was unfactual in their letter "in a biblical fashion" (or something like that) before he returns to Washington next week. So doubtful a hoax. Wonder what the ltte said ...

Too short of an item to excerpt - so here is the link: http://www.denverpost.com/search/ci_6781394

Is the guy an idiot, or what?

[rumpel]

1. to complete the story, the actual letter to the editor

and comments on this...

http://www.coloradoconfidential.com/showDiary.do;jsessionid=9E1BEF1F8884FE4B1889A45822A6764C?diaryId=2676

[kestrel91316]

3. bad link. Unless they pulled already.

[midnight]

9. I read a post of the two messages that were left on this couple's

phone. Was that the extent of the article or was there more?

[alfredo]

13. This board chokes on semi colons. I put the link through TinyURL

and it works. What happens is a space forms between the semi colon and the previous character. If you try to copy/paste the link, the browser will add the ASCII for a space. Remove those three ASCII characters (%20) and it works.

Try this

http://tinyurl.com/2xrwop


TinyURL is your friend.

http://tinyurl.com/

[havocmom]

17. Thanks for the tip and link! tinyurl.com bookmarked for future ues.

:yourock:

[alfredo]

18. No problem. I started using it when I started seeing problems

with The Guardian's links.

[salin]

6. I couldn't get the link to work -

am looking still looking. But in case I can't find it - what was the gist of the letter?

[formercia]

2. It disappeared.

file not found at link.


Hmmmm.

[rumpel]

4. I know something is weired with the link

it will not post let me see why...

[rumpel]

5. got it

http://www.coloradoconfidential.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2676

[salin]

7. found it - and it looks like a GOP dog-fight (so to speak)

http://www.coloradoconfidential.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2676

[rumpel]

8. yup

family values...

[niyad]

19. worked for me just now

[Judi Lynn]

10. Oh, GOD! That's such a SLEAZY message to send to a L.T.T.E. writer!

How do you "settle" something on a "Scriptural" basis?

What gives Lamborn the right to harrass opinion letter writers? Does he know something we don't?



Rep. Doug Lamborn

I've only heard anything this stupid one time before, and it concerned a previous mayor of Miami, who showed up on the doorstep of a Miami woman who wrote an Letter to the Editor condemning him, late in the evening. What a #### surprise! She called the cops, and wouldn't talk to him.

Hope someone will know more about Rep. Lamborn to add to this. Thanks, salin.

[whistle]

12. Here is one way to "settle" something on a "Scriptural" basis

..."An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth"

[salin]

14. I think it went something like this:

last primary (seat was open) was a nasty fest. So various candidates "pledged" to run clean campaigns.

Known repub operatives (a married couple) submit a ltte to a suburban paper - claiming Lamborn took $ from gambling interests (omg! playing the 'family values' card) and voted against making dogfighting penalties stricter.

Lamborn claims this was false and a violation of the clean campaign promise (presuming that the couple is working for another candidate).... BUT from my read, it looks like they didn't lie in the letter.

That doesn't change the intimidation via voice mail, though.

[niyad]

20. lamborn is a fresher repuke rep from CO--has hefley's former seat--such an idiot that his own party

refused to endorse him in the past election.

[Garbo 2004]

11. Fuller story at Colorado Statesman, available in pdf:

http://coloradostatesman.com/ads/CO.Statesman.Lamborn.story.pdf

To read online requires a subscription it appears, but the pdf is available.

[shireen]

15. a politician once showed up at the door of a critic

this was a few decades ago, when William Donald Schaefer was mayor of Baltimore. I don't remember the exact details but for someone who criticized him in a LTTE, Schaefer showed up at his home one evening to talk to him about it.
Shaefer was mayor, gov. of MD, and recently lost the race for state comptroller. He was a Democrat who endorsed Bush Sr. for president, and did all sorts of other things that made people wonder if he was bonkers.

[salin]

16. thin-skinned...

and what dem endorsed bushsr after the awful 8 reagan/bush years? Does sound a wee bit bonkers.