What a shock that two candidates have accepted Foxnews of Boulder David Thielin's invitation to an online debate. Why oh why does this idiot get attention from people in power? It is one thing for a community group or a newspaper to hold a debate. But why would a candidate for national office accept a debate proposal from a guy that has a blog? Thielin has no proven track record of an audience, and reading his blog, one gets the picture of a markedly out of touch curmudgeonly individual. All he does is shout his crazy ass opinions, but he doesn't make any attempt to bring balance or focus to any of the issues he discusses. Its just his opinion. He is not a journalist, and any candidate that participates in his forum has some serious problems with their scheduler.
This is just one guy blogging. One guy who is extremely libertarian and not particularly representative of Boulder. Hey let's have a debate, want to come. Next you can go to Rob Smoke's debate in his hot tub.
Most of the winning candidates for the city council election refused to participate in Thielin's online debate after learning what a jerk he is.
Thielin's blog has minimal traffic, say compared to a newspaper, or a community center. For god's sake, do the Aaron Harbor show, but Thielin's online debate?
Remember candidates, this is a man who called Boulder representative Claire Levy a jerk. He called former mayor McClean a scumbag. These are our community leaders, and you want to have him this namecalling jerk moderate your debate. This is a man who calls for a stronger Republican party in the city of Boulder so that he can have more choices of who to vote for, yet he wants to moderate a Demcratic Party primary debate. This is a blogger who called city councilman Macon Cowles a jerk.
This is the kind of even tempered person that should be conducting a debate? No its not. David is a right wing Nazi, no doubt about it, read his blog. He should have no part of Democratic Party politics.
If any sensible person from the Polis or Schafroth campaigns reads his blog, they will see that (1)
David Thielin is not a person with either deep roots in this community, and (2) that he is a cranky libertarian, (3) that he misrepresents facts, and (4) he is not fit to conduct an online debate.
So you have to question the competence of the Polis campaign for accepting this, it shows that Jarid really doesn't know what is going on, so it looks like we are going to vote for Joan.
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For someone who says my facts are off you sure have a lot wrong.
1) It's Thielen, not Thielin.
2) It's Shafroth, not Schafroth.
3) It's Jared, not Jarid.
4) I'm happy to show the typepad stats for my blog to anyone who wants to see them, they are over 500 hits/day most days.
5) Most of the candidates who did participate in the online debate said it was the best debate of the race. And two of the winners who did not participate later told me they wish they had.
6) I did a google search on my blog for the word "jerk" and it is used once (knee-jerk also appears). I never called Claire Levy or Macon Cowles a jerk. (On the flip side, you did call me a jerk in this post.)
7) Talk to a real libertarian about what I have said and they will laugh at the idea that I'm a libertarian. I agree with some of the libertarian agenda but strongly disagree with a lot of it.
You are correct that I do believe a two party system is necessary to have a strong democracy and would like to see the Republican party actually run a credible candidate or two here in Boulder.
And if you choose who to vote for based on a candidate's decision on whether or not to participate in a given debate, that's really sad...
Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!
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