Posted on 10/26/2009 6:22:36 AM PDT by coloradomomba
Stephanie Villafuerte, nominee for Colorado U.S. attorney, owes the public some answers.
A Denver Post story published Friday raised questions about Villafuerte's involvement in the response by Bill Ritter's campaign to the controversial accessing of a restricted law enforcement database in the heat of the 2006 gubernatorial campaign.
Over the past two years, Villafuerte has declined requests from The Post to describe her contact with former colleagues at the Denver District Attorney's office around the time the database was accessed.
But the Senate Judiciary Committee needs to ask her about it. The public deserves to know more details about the incident before Villafuerte gets any closer to becoming the state's top federal prosecutor.
Post reporter Karen E. Crummy obtained FBI records about the incident, which took place when Villafuerte was working for Bill Ritter's gubernatorial campaign. The controversy began when Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Beauprez ran an ad that said Ritter, the former Denver district attorney and the Democratic candidate for governor, had given an illegal immigrant a lenient plea bargain. That immigrant went on, the ad said, to commit a sex crime in California.
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Unending sleaze surrounds the dems.
Clearly, a nomenklatura, like the one that characterized the former Soviet Union, has been established in Colorado. Some folks (Villafuerte, Ritter, etc.) are above the law, because they belong to the nomenklatura; others (Voorhis) get screwed, because they don’t. Some folks ascend in the Soviet hierarchy (Villafuerte, Ritter, etc.; others (Voorhis) are sent to Siberia. Nice.
No mention of party affiliation. Must be a Dem.
Oh yeah, of coarse. She’s a dem.
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