Eddie Stern, spokesman for the Hickenlooper campaign
Arthur Kane, an award-winning journalist, of an encounter with the Hickenlooper campaign in which he says he was threatened with arrest.
Kane is a former Denver Post reporter and former Channel 7 investigative producer whose new gig is with the right-leaning Watchdog.org.
Like many Colorado media outlets, including The Post, Kane asked the campaigns for Hickenlooper and former congressman Bob Beauprez to provide copies of the candidates’ income tax returns.
The campaigns have provided tax information to outlets, like The Post, but Hickenlooper’s campaign has denied Kane. The returns are private information that candidates aren’t required to release. They are not part of open records laws. But serious candidates usually honor the request.
Kane says in his post that Hickenlooper told him at a public event Friday, “I think what we’ve done is release them to every legitimate media operation that we know of.”
Kane told me that after seeing the governor at the public event Friday he stopped by the campaign’s headquarters, and talked to spokesman Eddie Stern.
Ultimately, Kane reports, Stern asked him to leave, and when he did not, Stern began calling the police. At that point, Kane, who recorded the encounter, left.
“Itap just a ridiculous way to handle the press,” Kane told me Friday.
I’ve reached out to Stern for a response, and will update as necessary.
