The publisher of the Colorado Statesman has spoken up about Democratic CD-7 candidate Peggy Lamm's laughably absurd excuse for having publicly supported Governor Bill Owens in 2002 when he was fighting off Democratic challenger Rollie Heath.
Last week we wrote about Lamm's bumbling response to the Owens accusations, when she claimed to have made supportive statements in response to a caller to her home who she didn't know, but suspected to be running a push poll. As we wrote then:
Even if this is the truth, what in the hell is she doing using it as her rationale? Lamm is no stranger to politics, so she should have known how this was going to sound. Why didn't she just say that she was abducted by aliens who made her praise Bill Owens, under threat of an anal probe?
Well, according to Jodi Strogoff, editor and publisher of the Statesman, Lamm's excuse was not only silly, it was untrue. From The Rocky Mountain News:
More on the 7th District race: Jody Strogoff, editor-publisher of The Colorado Statesman, says it was her, not an anonymous push-poller, to whom Peggy Lamm spoke on the phone in 2002. And she identified herself. Lamm said in Wednesday's column she didn't know to whom she spoke. She was quoted in the Statesman praising Gov. Bill Owens. For this Lamm has been condemned by Bill Thiebaut, a supporter of 7th District rival Ed Perlmutter.
The title of the post we originally ran on this story sums it up: How NOT to Deflect an Attack. But this is even a worse blunder than we originally thought. If Strogoff is to be believed, Lamm responded to the Owens criticism -- criticism that by all accounts she should have been expecting -- with not only a lame excuse, but an untrue excuse. If you're going to make it up, you'd think you would make up something better than that.
If this week is any indication of how Lamm will perform once the race for CD-7 and the Democratic nomination really heats up next spring, then she's done.
What a moron. If I lived in that district, she would have just lost my vote for being stupid.
Posted by: Susan B | May 21, 2005 at 02:09 PM
Looks like Peter Blake did some fact checking and skewered Lamm again today.
Posted by: Shish Kabob | May 21, 2005 at 04:10 PM
Lamm now has the worst of all worlds. It is no longer a question of having to explain supporting Bill Owens in 2002 to angry Democrats; it is now an issue about her credibility and integrity. "I actually voted FOR Bill Owens BEFORE I voted against him"...The Republicans will have a field day with her if she survives the primary process. Interesting that, once again, the vaunted Denver Post misses the story completely and is upstaged by Pete Blake (twice) and the lowly Colorado Statesman...
Posted by: mediawatcher | May 22, 2005 at 12:27 PM
Hey let us all be friends:
It is time for the Heaths and the Lamms to make peace -- they can form Lovable Whiny Limosine Liberal Losers -- that worthless pack Dottie Lamm, Rollie Heath, Josie Heath
have done immense damage to the Democratic Party -- They should have thrown that whole gaggle of Lamms and Heaths out of the party along with Chris Gates than Pat Give the Dog A Bone Waak the Dem State Chair would have done something truly good for the party
Posted by: Vladimir | May 24, 2005 at 01:13 PM