- Kopel blames the victim for being killed
- Post like Al Jazeera
- Anti-bond issues comments diluted
- Immigration article bias
- 9News misses story
- Halloween classroom parties
- Revealing all the facts when it comes to voting
- Health care cost & concerns
- Pass & enforce laws against illegals
- Global & national problems
Anti-bond issues comments diluted
Did the city pay for the series the Rocky Mountain News ran about the upcoming Denver election — what Denver GOP chair Mary Smith has told reporters is “an alphabet-soup grab for cash”?
I spoke with a reporter several times and made it clear that the election should be seen as a referendum on Mayor John Hickenlooper’s poor performance and people should just vote “no” and that perhaps it was time to Kick Hick.
My comments were watered down dramatically (“A backlog of upkeep/Mayor says mill levy hike offers ongoing fix, but foe questions past maintenance efforts,” Sept. 29), and Smith’s comments were not reported at all!
What has happened to the idea that our newspapers are watchdogs on city government? Ever since the Rocky-Post joint operating agreement came into being, it has become just one dysfunctional family — the newspapers, Denver city government and the bonding companies, contractors and others who end up with the cash.
Denver voters who want to send a message should just vote no.
John Wren
House District 5
Republican chairman
Denver