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GAFFE: Markey Unable to Answer Basic Financial Question ( Colorado )
ColoradoPeakPolitics ^ | October 20, 2014

Posted on 10/20/2014 8:08:12 AM PDT by george76

And you thought the Treasurer’s debate would be boring. That was the observation made by Fox 31 political reporter Eli Stokols as he moderated a debate between Treasurer Walker Stapleton and failed Congresswoman Betsy Markey. At about the 7 minute mark in the below video is when things get really heated. Stapleton asks Markey a basic question about public finance: “Could you describe to me what a yield curve is, please?” She is unable to answer.

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Stapleton has a degree in business economics from the London School of Economics and an MBA from Harvard Business School. He is not just smart, he is what many might call a financial expert. Meanwhile, Markey doesn’t even have a substantive understanding of the issues the Treasurer’s office deals with on a daily basis.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: betsymarkey; finance; markey; publicfinance; stapleton; treasurer; walkerstapleton; yieldcurve

1 posted on 10/20/2014 8:08:12 AM PDT by george76
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To: george76

HuffPo thinks Markey should be elected because of her support for climate (hope and) change.


2 posted on 10/20/2014 8:17:34 AM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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That was so sexist for the Republican to ask a question dealing with accepted economic theory.

The rat candidate is female and an eviro whacko, so she deserves to be elected.

She doesn’t need to know anything that would make her competent to do her job.


3 posted on 10/20/2014 8:22:13 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (I, Barrack E Obolabama support the left wing's war on Ebola. Fox News & Republicans will fight me.)
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To: AZLiberty
HuffPo thinks Markey should be elected because of her support for climate (hope and) change.

Well if she was elected and then lost Colorados money, she could be completely honest when asked how it happened and answers " I don't have a clue".

4 posted on 10/20/2014 8:22:23 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Exactly, but in all honesty Democrat and competent are mutually exclusive words. Can you think of any Democrat that possess competence?


5 posted on 10/20/2014 8:30:19 AM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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Yield curve = how many democrat votes you can get per bribe dollar spent. Yield curve = How much BS you have to pile on the LIV’s before they get out to vote the straight Marxist ticket. Yield curve = How many years I must put up with this political crap before I have scammed enough money out of the system to retire comfortably in a tropical paradise. Yield curve = How much of this outright incompetence I can get away with before I get caught and end up rent free in the graybar hotel. All valid answers for the Marxist pols.


6 posted on 10/20/2014 8:30:46 AM PDT by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: MileHi; dynachrome; Balata; bboop; BulletBobCo; Carley; ColoCowgirl; Colorado Doug; ...

Colorado Ping ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)


7 posted on 10/20/2014 8:43:59 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: Robert DeLong

“Exactly, but in all honesty Democrat and competent are mutually exclusive words. Can you think of any Democrat that possess competence?”

Not in the past 4-5 decades!

Zero Competence and Zero Honesty are the core of Democrats seeking or in office from the city level to the highest level, like Ebola Obama.


8 posted on 10/20/2014 8:44:12 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (I, Barrack E Obolabama support the left wing's war on Ebola. Fox News & Republicans will fight me.)
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To: Don Corleone

Exactly!


9 posted on 10/20/2014 8:47:19 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$
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To: Grampa Dave

Do not know any progressive lefties who understand any accepted economic theory.


10 posted on 10/20/2014 9:02:48 AM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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Treasurer Walker Stapleton

He os a relative of the former Conservative Democrat Denver Mayor

Red Rocks and Stapleton Field fame.


11 posted on 10/20/2014 9:55:35 AM PDT by Uri’el-2012 (Psalm 119:174 I long for Your salvation, YHvH, Your teaching is my delight.)
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I thought it important that I offer what the women of questionable economic back ground, forgot to offer against the incumbent Republican, and that is "Voodoo Economics." /s = DRIPPING SARCASM!!!!!!

Thank you George H.W. Bush 41st POTUS

A slanderous term used by George H. W. Bush in reference to President Ronald Reagan's economic policies, which came to be known as "Reaganomics".

12 posted on 10/20/2014 10:32:37 AM PDT by Stanwood_Dave ("Testilying." Cop's don't lie, they just Testily{ing} as taught in their respected Police Academy.)
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13 posted on 10/20/2014 1:31:22 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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The definition is, I Yield to my Babby Daddies, and then you throw me all kinds of monies like a Curve ball.


14 posted on 10/21/2014 7:52:11 AM PDT by SkyPilot
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She’s a moron. A perfect democrat candidate.


15 posted on 10/21/2014 9:26:06 AM PDT by MissTed ( Private Tagline - Do Not Read!)
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