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Sunday, August 27, 2006
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Elevated Voices: "The [Denver] Post didn't bother to contact us when preparing the article (or in the week since its publication). If they had, we would have happily shared [the] transcript from Max Potter's interview with Beauprez."
They quote Beauprez as saying, "Sure, I'd be glad to explain. I don't pretend to understand the homosexuality thing. And plainly I don't have a huge problem with it. I've hired, at my [bank], there's been a number of gays, lesbians. I didn't know when I hired them. I mean, how do you know? You find out afterward. To the person, they've been great employees. Wonderful employees. I've given three eulogies in my life: my dad, my mother in law, and a dear friend of mine who happened to be gay and happened to die of HIV-AIDs. A very good friend of mine. I'm gonna leave that whole thing to a bigger judge than me."
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
7:08:42 AM 
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Fred Brown looks at negative campaigning and 527s in his column in yesterday's Denver Post. He writes, "The 527 season opened early this year, in mid-August, with a dark and clumsy 'Both Ways Bob' TV ad in the governor's campaign. It was two to three weeks earlier than the traditional Labor Day start of mud wrestling. This is only the beginning. Between now and the Nov. 7 election, 527s will be responsible for most of the edgiest, nastiest political advertising on television. And it will be aired, as usual, so frequently that viewers will be tempted to turn their TVs into aquariums. (Even earlier, in July, a Republican 527, the Trailhead Group, aired a radio ad attacking Democratic candidate Bill Ritter's record as Denver district attorney.) Here's a naïve idea: Why don't 527s try running ads that support the candidates they like instead of attacking the ones they don't? The easy answer is that, under election laws and section 527 of the IRS Code (thus the name), these independent political organizations aren't allowed to communicate with candidates. If they do, they and the candidate can get in trouble."
Category: Denver November 2006 Election
6:39:08 AM
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