Winning Solves Nothing: Colorado Version
New West Network | Colorado Dems, Fresh Off Successes, Switch Things Up
Wow ... forget the problems in Dallas and Bexar County for the time being. There's not many states that had as much success in swimming upstream as Colorado did in 2004, winning a US Senate seat while Bush was winning at the Presidential level and turning the tide on state legislative seats in the face of Governor Bill Owens' rising unpopularity. You'd think things would be all peaches and cream in Colorado based on all of this, right?
Apparently not. The State party chair, Chris Gates, was ousted by the Central Committee by a vote of 187-184, replacing him with Pat Waak.
Unbelievable. California Democrats seem intent to shoot both feet off, Colorado Democrats rebel against success ... what next? Montana Democrats leading the drive to impeach Brian Schweitzer?
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This is Chris Bowers at the MYDD site:
Disturbing as this may seem for some, Colorado Dems were angry over what was a bossed primary in Colorado. The DSCC was complicit in this bossing for a couple of months, not even mentioning on their website that Miles existed. Being shut out of the process of selecting your party's nominee is a bitter pill to swallow, even in victory.
Being shut out of the process? Don't these idiots know about the primary election where Salazar got 3/4 of the votes? Haven't they heard of "one person, one vote"? It seems most of the "Colorado Dems" couldn't have been too angry, else they wouldn't have voted so heavily for Salazar.
This is the same kind of crybabyism we saw from the Dean supporters after the Dean prexie run collapsed: they can't live with the fact that the grassroots rejected their candidate, so they blame everything on the big, bad party establishment.