2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumso drumpfy was here this afternoon. and in this oh-so-red county, THIS was the coverage:
(norris penrose event center has a lot of horse events. robert dear rated more coverage today, as well as the major fire)
By KKTV |
Posted: Tue 7:32 AM, Oct 18, 2016 |
Updated: Tue 1:57 PM, Oct 18, 2016
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KKTV) Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made a third visit to Colorado Springs Tuesday, a day after ballots went in the mail for Colorado's first all-mail presidential election.
Trump spoke to a full room at Norris-Penrose Events Center on 1045 Lower Gold Camp Road.
Trump previously campaigned in Pueblo on Oct. 3 and in Colorado Springs on July 29 and Sept. 17.
Cakes488
(874 posts)niyad
(113,315 posts)got more coverage than drumpfy.
spooky3
(34,454 posts)meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)The defunct Ted Haggard's Mega Church is there. It just sort of became a pooling place for the ultra christian conservative.
It is a really pretty smallish city very close to the mountains. One of their representatives that they voted in in 2012 said that Obama needed an exorcism He said some other really crazy shit but I can't remember off the top of my head.
niyad
(113,315 posts)tried to run for mayor, betty beatie, daryyl glenn. . . . a whole host of looney toons.
oh, and the evangelicalization of the air force academy.
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)I live about 45 miles north of Colo springs so here some of the nuttiness. I forgot about Doug Bruce. I haven't gone through my blue book yet, isn't there a ballot initiative to reverse his baby TABOR? I hope so but I have little hope it will pass.
niyad
(113,315 posts)caused so much damage in the state. and when I have to pass his slum of a house that the city is too scared to do anything about.
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)You'd think he'd be living in the lap of luxury with that huge state refund he gets every year from his crappy TABOR legislation.
niyad
(113,315 posts)rate, and bringing down property values in the neighborhood. that is just one. dougie boy is a slumlord.
dem in texas
(2,674 posts)spooky3
(34,454 posts)niyad
(113,315 posts)but the ultra-conservatives wield way too much power here.
flying rabbit
(4,634 posts)And fundamentalists. The best part of living there was the nature that surrounds it.
spooky3
(34,454 posts)flying rabbit
(4,634 posts)I hope my post didn't come of wrong.
Peace.
spooky3
(34,454 posts)longship
(40,416 posts)anamandujano
(7,004 posts)a full room