{"id":5872,"date":"2014-10-12T09:44:24","date_gmt":"2014-10-12T15:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/?p=5872"},"modified":"2014-10-21T15:05:11","modified_gmt":"2014-10-21T21:05:11","slug":"the-setup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/2014\/10\/the-setup\/","title":{"rendered":"the setup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back when I was a Kiowa Lion, Lions did not mix politics with the philanthropic mission of the club. To this day the Lions’ bylaws contain this prohibition. The Elizabeth Lions have apparently discarded this rule. I have no idea what the Elizabeth Lions hope to gain from a collaboration with partisan publisher Jerry Bishop and other local Leftist publishers [see below], but gaming local elections through a Leftist cooperative hardly seems in the best interests of Elbert County or the charitable interests Lions ostensibly organize to serve.<\/p>\n

I am very weary of these Leftist smear tactics [see below]. I won’t attend a setup event.<\/p>\n

John Dorman sat with the Oil & Gas edit committee for years, a self-anointed local planning group who produced a regulatory document that would have landed Elbert County in the middle of an expensive lawsuit with the State of Colorado over “local control” – work that a majority of commissioners had the good sense to discard last summer. Those facts were documented in numerous blog postings here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thanks to billionaire Democrat activists and Governor Hickenlooper the issue lives on and continues to threaten property holders in Colorado.<\/p>\n

The difference between a Leftist activist and a proponent of limited government, however, is that the latter can learn from their mistakes. The former do not.<\/p>\n

Dorman’s an activist. A man of the Left. And I am so very weary of this all-politics all-the-time Leftism in our society. Leftism, like other religions, has a proper time and place. Activists, however, have no boundaries. They come at you like Witnesses showing wide-eyed un-listenning stares of true belief. When you see them coming you don’t answer the door. Don’t make eye contact and maybe they’ll go away.<\/p>\n

That’s what Leftists have reduced politics to. I’ve had my fill.<\/p>\n

The fact that their belief system gives them justification to employ tactics beneath contempt [see below] doesn’t endear them to me either. Grown men and women should know better.<\/p>\n

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\"Kelly<\/a>

Kelly Dore Campaign Memo<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Disingenuous<\/a>

Disingenuous Response from Elizabeth Lions<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Partisan<\/a>

Partisan Jerry Bishop and the Elizabeth Lions<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"Dorman<\/a>

Dorman promises a new majority with Ross<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"New<\/a>

New Plains and Lions Setup<\/p><\/div>\n

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\"McShay<\/a>

McShay Beneath Contempt<\/p><\/div>\n

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