Denver-based group continues to spend big with TV ad . . .

Denver-based group continues to spend big with TV ad targeting Greeley City Council race

A political committee launched what is thought to be the first TV ad campaign in Greeley municipal election history, buying a 30-second ad that will run through Election Day, Nov. 7.

The committee, Greeley for a Stronger Economy, is supporting mayoral candidate John Gates, Ward 2 candidate Brett Payton, at-large candidate Eddie Mirick and Ward 3 candidate Michael Fitzsimmons. The Denver-based committee made waves late this past week after it spent nearly $50,000 on mailers supporting those same candidates.

The ad, which premiered Wednesday night, appears to be a response to a Greeley Tribune article detailing $1,500 in contributions from Rep. Jared Polis, D-Colo., to three different city council candidates...

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For the record, Greeley and Weld County have never been known as hotbeds of liberal thought. Unaffiliateds (independents) comprise the largest voter registration block, followed by Republicans, then Democrats. But it's been thirty years since a non-Republican was allowed on the board of county commissioners. On city council, there have been sporadic non-Republican members, but the majority has remained in Republican hands. One of those councilors recently resigned and his temporary replacement, a Republican candidate from a ward with the rare majority of Democratic voters, was chosen by the mayor and remaining councilors, the lone holdout being the only Democrat on council.

That sole Democrat has rocked the Republican boat, especially since she's Latina (gasp!) and gay (double gasp!). She's also done excellent work and set a welcome example by holding regular public roundtable discussions with residents.

Among those on the current ballot for city council are two phenomenal women who have been knocking on doors for months; their Republican opponents have not been wearing out any shoe leather, clearly comfortable in the presumptive safety of the entrenched inbred Republican stranglehold, that safety being supported by the Tribune's unsurprising endorsements. All of which makes it all the more surprising to see this kind of "influence" coming from out-of-town interests. Stay tuned.


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