QUOTABLE
“I prefer to be anonymous.”
Joe Klein, columnist for Time magazine, after being introduced by New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson at a rally for Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter on Friday. Klein wrote the 1996 novel “Primary Colors” as “Anonymous.”
Potshots greet Bush, Cheney
It was bad enough that President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney were greeted upon arrival in Colorado with headlines about Colorado Springs evangelical leader Ted Haggard.
But then those pushing an initiative to legalize marijuana made sure the national leaders’ pictures were also in the newspaper.
An ad featuring Cheney ran in Colorado Springs while Bush was featured in the Greeley Tribune.
“Our campaign is based on the simple premise that society would be better off if adults were allowed to make the safer, rational choice to use marijuana instead of alcohol,” said Mason Tvert, manager of the campaign that placed the ads.
“Using the leaders of our country as examples, the ads point out a couple of ways in which alcohol can increase harms in our society.”
Now, guess where you’ve heard this:
Colorado’s gubernatorial candidates debated more than two dozen times in the past few months. And many of the same phrases were repeated and repeated and repeated.
See if you can match the candidate to the catchphrase.
1. “I know what it means to be on the long end of a shovel and the short of the ditch.”
2. “My mother has 11 living children, 32 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren – and all but two live here in Colorado.”
3. “I will appoint a blue-ribbon commission.”
4. “I will lead a delegation of governors back to Washington.”
5. “We don’t have to steal anybody’s water. We just have to slow it down a little bit.”
6. “That’s like having 10 Invesco Fields side-by-side and filling every seat. That’s how many uninsured there are in Colorado.”
7. “This election is about hope versus cynicism.”
8. “If we had not passed Referendum C, 10 out of 13 community colleges would have closed.”
9. “I believe you solve problems where they exist.”
10. “We’ve already purchased our burial plots. We’re fixin’ to stay awhile.”
Answers: 1. Beauprez; 2. Ritter;
3. Ritter; 4. Beauprez; 5. Beauprez; 6. Ritter; 7. Ritter; 8. Ritter;
9. Beauprez; 10. Beauprez
Animal magnetism around the state
When U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard stepped off the bus for a Republican victory rally last week, one attendee wanted to hear more from Allard than campaign rhetoric. She wanted him to examine her dog’s eye. The veterinarian happily obliged. And that’s not the only animal that showed up at the Greeley campaign stop. Carol “Llama Mama” Lontine brought her llama Jed to the rally because, she said, it was time for him to learn to be around people.
THE WEEK AHEAD
Tuesday is Election Day. For information on the ballot and where to vote, go to govotecolorado.com
