Posted on 09/28/2006 7:28:57 AM PDT by george76
The slings and arrows of a "pretty nasty" campaign have included an online onslaught of name-calling.
There are dirty politics, and then there are nasty politics. Just ask the candidates ...
As the election grows near, the race's normal debating and sign posting has been overshadowed by requests for restraining orders, allegations of slander and libel, the airing of arrest records, criminal investigations and an online war of words.
It all started with a debate this month at a Club 20 meeting in Grand Junction.
Incumbent 58th District Rep. Ray Rose, R-Montrose, startled the crowd when he asked his opponent - Telluride Democrat Brian Ahern - about his arrest record.
Ahern had been arrested in June - three weeks after he announced his candidacy - after a row with his fiancée. He had slashed her picture with a knife and broke out the windshield of her car.
Ahern had also been arrested in 2005 after he argued with a Texas woman in Telluride. Charges were dropped against him, but the woman paid a fine for spraying him with Mace.
Ahern was charged with harassment in 2001 when he had an altercation with a gondola operator in Mountain Village, but that charge was also dismissed.
Eight years ago, he was nabbed for DUI.
He was arrested again...
Ahern said he didn't think all this messiness should be an issue in the race for a representative in a district that covers the southwestern corner of Colorado. His fiancée has asked that the charges be dropped. He said he expects them to be dismissed before his trial date Oct. 18.
(Excerpt) Read more at denverpost.com ...
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... Goodtimes "would sacrifice his mother to Islamic fascists to keep a Republican out of office."
Mr. Ahern has been under scrutiny since his June 10th arrest for menacing, domestic violence and criminal mischief in an altercation with his pregnant girlfriend. He goes to a trial October 18th.
Mr. Ahern, in a desperate and ill-conceived plan to hide his arrest from the public, met with the Telluride Daily News, the Telluride Watch and the Telluride Daily Planet in an effort to "kill the story", until after his jury trial.
The Daily Planet agreed to kill the story while the Telluride Watch did print the story in its biweekly hardcopy, but agreed to not put the story in its online version.
http://skimall.net/skitelluride/TellurideOfficialGuide/tob/index.html
Doesn't everybody do those things? /sarc
Less than three weeks prior to the Nov. 7 general election, the Democratic candidate for Colorado's House District 58 is scheduled to show up in a San Miguel County court on domestic violence charges.
Brian Ahern, of Placerville, is slated to appear in court Oct. 18 for a jury trial to face charges of menacing, criminal mischief and domestic violence, according to a court document from San Miguel County.
http://www.cortezjournal.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/06/news060917_1.htm
Thanks for the tip.
Uh No.
My view of the typical working man is they have not been charged with DUI, have not been arrested for domestic disputes and the typical working man lives a life that is not full of embarrassments.
What Democrats think is typical is sometimes all that is needed to know how depraved their outlook on life has become.
He needs to move here where the cops are illiterate and can't write up police reports.
Yep, saw that in Pookie's toons this morning. Funny stuff.
Pookie does good work.
Ahern sounds like a number one AHole.
This guy should fit in real well with the invading third world culture. Wife or girlfriend has ticked you off? No problem, just smash her windshield or drag her with your car for a few miles.
Another DUmmie wants to be a politician
Penetrating ruminations...
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