The troubled Colorado Republican Party announced February 20th that Steve Bannon, a convicted felon who also pled guilty to fraud charges in New York state, was going to give the keynote speech at the party’s annual Centennial Fundraising Dinner, was set to be held at Denver Tech Center (DTC):
On February 21 though, Bannon threw a Nazi salute at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) and all hell broke loose. Coloradans organized a public campaign aimed at shaming the DTC Marriott out of hosting the event:
That campaign worked. Soon the Colorado Republican Party changed the event venue to the Antlers Hotel in Colorado Springs, but kept the venue under wraps, only saying in its revised invitation that the event location was “in Colorado Springs:”
But on March 14, the CO GOP announced the new location would be in Colorado Springs at the Antlers Hotel, and the campaign to push the event out ramped up again as Coloradans started pressuring the Antlers Hotel not to host it:
At one point, opponents of fascism created fliers portraying the event as a “white supremacy dinner.”
That campaign worked as well.
The Antlers Hotel management cancelled the event as a result of the political pushback. (video)
The GOP ended up holding their fundraising event at the old Boot Barn, which had been turned into a music venue that seats about 300 and is now known as the Phil Long Music Hall. There was a loud protest outside that venue while it was going on. See a video of the protest in this short.
These professional organizers are really on a roll. All they have to do is call someone a racist fascist and a bunch of virtue signaling white people show up with signs…this time for six hours and they didn’t get a red cent…while groups like Indivisible are making millions.
The image of an organ grinder and trained monkeys comes to mind.
Anne forgot to mention that Tina Peters called in to the event. She’s a racist fascist, too.
Remarkable! All these professional organizers have to do is call someone a fascist, racist and a bunch of virtue signaling white people show up with silly signs. They were there for six hours and didn’t get a red cent while Indivisible is making millions.
Something about an organ grinder with a trained monkey comes to mind.
Anne forgot the best part…Tina Peters called in to the event. She’s a racist, fascist, too.
Well, she broke the law and tried to frame an innocent man, just to support a racist and fascist, so…
Yeah, pretty much.
Who paid for the $4/minute call from jail? Mr. Pillow? Hopefully she wore something orange and sexy for him.
Tina looks great in orange, thankfully. I don’t know if it was a video call.
From what I’ve read there has been a falling out between Mike and Tina.
I’ve also detected a rift between Bishop and Peters…something about paying her legal team. It’s hard to get any substantive, unbiased news about Peters but one thing is sure is that the US Justice Department is investigating her trial, conviction and sentence. If there is any justice in the world, the transcript of Barrett’s diatribe during the sentencing phase will show him to be a partisan hack who based the punishment on his “feelings” about Peters speech…not to mention that a nine year sentence was ridiculous.
So it doesn’t matter that she could offer no evidence to prove her innocence? All she did was try to justify her actions, which was irrelevant to the trial. She did the crime, and she got less of a sentence than she could have. If the judge was really out to get her she would have gotten a lot more than nine years.
Yes it does matter that she wasn’t able to present any evidence. That’s the point and somehow that was all decided pre-trial…so that practically every objection by the prosecution was sustained.
Interestingly in January 2024, one of Barrett’s
trials was thrown out because of some pretrial shenanigans he pulled.
The idea of “mens rea” should be a pivotal part of any trial, but Rubenstein, Shapiro and Barrett decided beforehand that she couldn’t present it.
And again Barrett justified her sentence because he considered her speech dangerous. He’s unhinged.
You’re wasting your time. Harry has given up everything for Trump, and others who serve him.
Logic, reason, honesty, simple human decency…all sacrificed to Trump.
PS. now that I think of it Peter’s state of mind was presented…but only by the prosecution. They and Barrett intimated that
everything she did was attention seeking and her deep desire to fly on Mike Lindell’s private plane.
I’d wonder how the hell they got away with that, but since Barrett was the judge, it’s clear.
Based on the crimes she was convicted of, Tina was eligible for up to 20+ years, so she was lucky to get 9 years.
She has a perfect record, so the sentence was ridiculous.
Barrett was grandstanding for his democrat buddies.
Did you know that the charge that Peter’s was illegally recording in the courtroom was dropped because Barrett had failed to notify the public of his wishes?
Such a careless man.
Badhat, just because you disagree with it or don’t like it doesn’t mean justice wasn’t served. This is something my parents had to teach me on multiple occasions when I was a kid. You’re not a lawyer. You’re not a judge. And you weren’t at the trial. What you don’t know could almost fill the Grand canyon. Judges are always permitted to provide rationale after sentencing, and there are guidelines for both sentencing and his opinion supporting it. Sure, they’ll investigated, but nothing will come of it because nothing was violated. Tina is lucky she only got nine years, and we both know damn well if she was black and had broken in and stolen copies of those hard drives she would have been in jail for the rest of her life.Your legal frame of reference is Fox news, but again, thanks for offering us your unsolicited opinion. I find your contrarianism on this blog amusing on occasion, and I enjoy your pathetic attempts at owning the libs, but at this point you’re so ignorant and wrong it’s not worth reading your opinion. You have mere assertions with no evidence. Feel free to continue exercising your first amendment right, but at this point, you’re getting embarrassing.
“Mens rea”? More like diarrhea, badhat–of the vocal chords. Christ do you have some time in your hands!
One can hardly blame the first two venues; can you imagine how much it would cost to scrub the slime left in the building after that many Republicans have defiled it?
At least the old Boot Barn is used to hosing out the joint.