Holtzman v Beauprez

The Denver Post's political column takes note of this project this morning:

Holtzman v. Beauprez

Every candidate has a website, but how many races have their own blogs? Political junkies who can't get enough of the 2006 governor's race - it's now just 351 days away! - can visit the Holtzman vs. Beauprez blog at holtzmanvbeauprez.jsharf.com. It's a collaborative project of the Rocky Mountain Alliance of Blogs. Congressman Bob Beauprez and former University of Denver president Marc Holtzman are the only declared GOP candidates for governor.

See, now this is the kind of editorial we're glad to see the Post running.

Posted by Joshua Sharf at 07:40 AM | Permalink

Last night was the Independence Institute's Founders Dinner, and while the LPR-types were much in evidence, Bob Beauprez was not. I came a little late, but Marc Holtzman had put in an early appearance, before heading off to court the Republican Women, so to speak. It's a natural constituency for Holtzman, perhaps not so much for Beauprez, but it still represents a powerful force within the party, and one that Beauprez should at least be seeking to placate, if not win over outright.

While John Andrews had a little fun at the governor's expense, he did gently continue his campaign of reconciliation, reminding the group that we still probably have more in common with Bill Owens than we do with, say, Jared Polis. Beauprez would probably not have found a hostile reception, and would have earned some points just by showing up.

Posted by Joshua Sharf at 11:33 AM | Permalink | Comments (4)

In an earlier post I said that I looked forward to hearing where both candidates fell on protecting our borders. Marc Holtzman has a posiiton page on this issue on his site that I missed. Marc has come out very strong on this issue, and I look forward to hearing more over the coming weeks and months.

Posted by Jim at 03:34 PM | Permalink

I haven't quite decided where my vote will go in this race. I am inclined to vote for Beauprez simply because (at this point) of name recognition. That's not an informed vote though. One thing is for sure, I will be taking a close look at where both candidates stand on the issues. My main concern right now is making Colorado and the rest of the nation safe from islamofacists during the GWOT. We cannot do that if we are pandering to illegal immigrants.

Colorado needs a tough illegal immigration policy. For one, we need to take away the incentives business's have in hiring illegal immigrants. Second, we need tougher penalties for businesses that insist on hiring illegals. Next, we need to make sure that we replace illegals with Americans and make sure they can make a living wage. Finally, we must secure our borders to stop the inflow of illegal immigration and set up policies to allow for legal and safe immigration to this country. Much of this will have to be done on the national level rather than the state level, but the next Governor of Colorado could and should be a leading voice on this issue.

Over the coming weeks myself and the rest of the RMA will be keeping an eye on this issue as well as many others.

Cross posted @ Thinking Right

Posted by Jim at 10:22 AM | Permalink | Comments (6)

At this point, it also appears that the Holtzman campaign website is much more substantial than the Beauprez campaign site The Beauprez site is little more than a bio and beg, where the Holtzman site actually tells you something about the candidate.

Still, in 2006, after a statewide campaign won by a hispanic candidate, neither site has a Spanish-language version. Maybe they think of it as principled, maybe they haven't thought of it at all, but there are far too many voters out there whose first language es en Espanol for them to be campaigning strictly in English.

We can go on about immigration forever, and I'm sure we will, but if you've got citizens out there voting, you need to be able to talk to them, and if you can't, if you choose not to, they're not going to vote for you. This is going to be hard enough, let's not make it harder still.

Posted by Joshua Sharf at 06:26 PM | Permalink

To Holtzman v. Beauprez, a follow-up to our successful Salazar v. Coors project of 04.

We already disagree about this race, and we still have a couple of hundred days to go until the vote, so things can only get worse. Especially if it's close. Which makes better copy, so we all hope for that.

Through the primary, we'll be adding commentary on the campaigns here, as well as on our own sites. And after the primary, look for another blog.

Posted by Joshua Sharf at 03:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)