Are Colorado Democrats Too Left?
I received an interesting email today. It was from a person I will not name who stated the following: "Oh for the record I don't appreciate the left take over of the Democratic party here in Colorado."
Wow, I really don't know how to respond to this, let's look at the facts:
1. Both Pat and Chris had equal time to go out and rally for the vote for state chair.
2. They both had unrestricted access to all counties in Colorado, of which Chris choose not to come to El Paso County and Pat did.
3. The Colorado Democratic Party is an "Inclusive" party. Meaning that we allow all kinds of liberals/progressives to be involved; left, middle, extreme, lazy, and opinionated, just to name a few.
I'm sorry that some people feel that they lost, or that the right candidate did not win, but I hope all Colorado Democrats will pull together and support our new state chair. I know I do!!
posted by JavaJay @ 8:41 AM
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2 Comments:
Well, I don't know if the party has gone to the left, but it does seem like we had a successful chairperson in place who had helped the party elect a Dem Senator and take over the state house. Why replace him? It seems to me that the Miles supporters are motivated more by a personal vendetta than a desire to make the party more successful. Many of them came to the state convention to strictly to vote for Mike , and we haven't seen much of them since them. Dems need to look beyond one candidate and get the big picture.
I keep hearing this thang about Chris Gates Loosing only because of disgruntled Mike Miles supporters.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
As a representative of El Paso county I voted for Pat Waak because Chris NEVER paid attention to us and gave us no support.
I am a Ken Salazar supporter AND I voted for Pat Waak. Gates supporters would love to blame it all on Miles supporters. And therein lies the problem.
Gates will not take responsibility for the loss on his own shoulders but loves to talk about how the sucesses of the Democrats in state was because of him. Instead he wants to piss and moan about those radical lefties who are taking over the party.
Pat is our chair. Get over it.
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