Shawn Coleman shirt

Yeah, so the guy is real proud to be a DNC delegate, but does he really need his own t-shirt?

Shawn Coleman finds his calling

Shawn Coleman elected Obama delegate at 2nd CD convention. Finally, this guy finds his calling, which is national and state politics, not nasty local city politics. Shawn will never get elected to City counsel while he is under 35 years old, especially given his pro-growth positions and his pro-business positions on the downtown boulder planning commission Residents don't want some kid to tell them how to govern their city.

But state and national politics are different. Shawn should get out of poisonous city politics and focus on the state, where youth counts and broad ideas matter. Also, growth has a completely different meaning at the state level, where a broad environmental position is all that is needed for a Democrat. And people that wouldn't even think about having him on city council would happily have him in a state or national position.

David Thielin makes ass of self at Dem convention

Political poseur David Thielin made an ass out of himself at the Second CD convention this last weekend, passing out cheesy home-made flyers with La Rouche like undertones. Will Schafroth actually rolled his eyes as David spewed out his political conspiracy theories.

Will the Second CD actually vote for this numskull? Not with 3 Obama delegates at stake, there were some really plugged in people running for delegate, and running a Boulder blog like David does is not exactly a way to get credibility with the party.

David Thielin - political dummy for National delegate?

Republican liberal poseur David Thielin wants to be a national delegate for Obama, even though he endorsed Edwards on his little read web page. Why is David a Rush clone? And can David be trusted not to switch his vote and the convention?

David is untrustworthy. First, he endorsed Republican Bob Greenlee to run against liberal progressive Democrat Claire Levy for the state house. Why would any Democrat delegate want this type of person as a delegate. This is what he wrote about our Democratic representative.

"As to the Republicans, here is what you do. When it's time to select your candidate for this seat, wait until Bob Greenlee leaves the convention floor for a minute and then quickly vote to make him the Republican candidate to challenge Claire. That would be a great race." http://www.davidthielen.info/politics/2007/11/claire-ms-arrog.html

Second, he manipulates the news to fit his views, like Fox News Liberal councilperson Macon Cowles said said that as the one-man operator of his Web site, Thielen has the power to color the picture of candidates that voters receive, and he's not convinced he'll be fair. "I would not give Rush Limbaugh the chance to distort my record or my views, and I will not give that chance to Thielen, who is not 'Liberal and loving it!' as proclaimed on his masthead."

Third, he has posted extensively about electing Republicans in Boulder County.

http://www.davidthielen.info/politics/2007/09/its-time-to-bri.html

Coleman on building lots of stuff

Finally, Candidate Coleman finally comes out as the extreme pro-growther that he tried to hide from the voters during last November's election. This is why you didn't win looser, your out of step with the city, with the exception of the reactionary bloggers that have turned this web site into an unreadable mess. With the Real Estate lobby endorsing such winners as Adam Massey and Shawn Coleman, neither of whom came close to winning, the council's restrictions on growth should come as a surprise to no-one.

Suzy Ageton; nosey librarian or city council member?

Suzy's attempt to embarrass Crystal Gray at Tuesday's council member faltered, as her fellow council members gave her issues with Crystal a big yawn. The other seven council members basically said, Crystal is great, why are you bothering us with this crap. A clearly embarrassed Suzy Ageton responded that she was simply bringing this up to for the good of the community; but the rest of the council said this is none of our business and has nothing to do with us.

Suzy's busybody attitude may have been popular with past council members, but this council isn't going to tolerate this garbage. Crystal effectively defended her record, and Suzy came off like an ass. Also a big fug you to David Thielin, the only idiot in Boulder to care about Channel 7s yellow journalism; those in the know know that Crystal works 40 plus not just on council activities, and is was one of the most prepared council members on the last city council. (This city council is smarter than the last, so everybody is prepared).

Ryan Morgan, Daily Camera's lazy reporter

This is one lazy Daily Chumpara reporter that is not headed for anything bigger in his career. Having met the reporter at many board and council meetings, he doesn't come off as a rocket scientist, more of a fratish party-boy. He shows his poor reporting skills today in his brilliant investigative story on the front page of the paper today. Take today's in-depth story on Crystal Gray.

Entitled "critics" want Crystal Gray to resign, Morgan proceeds to report on what one "critic" says on his local blog. That's it. No other critic is mentioned. One crazy guy and his crazy blog. I've got news for everybody, what David Thielin's puts on his blog is not even remotely reflective of public opinion in this town, if it was, we would have losers such as Shaun Coleman on council. Thielin has time and time again proven to be out of touch with this community, and regardless, the paper has no business reporting what he writes on his blog.

This is agenda driven reporting at its finest. The Camera is sore over lots of issues, mainly the new council's growth control positions, and this story is how the Camera attacks the council.