"'These guys have a lot of free time,' observed Owens' aide Dick Wadhams." No, you arrogant SOB, they are hard-working people who are defending their rights.
A tip 'o the derby to the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners ( http://www.rmgo.org/ ).
http://www.insidedenver.com/blake/0611blake.shtml
Gun-rights folks to keep heckling Owens on the road
Peter Blake
Gov. Bill Owens will get no rest from the pro-gun folks who heckled him during his speech to the Republican State Convention last weekend.
He can expect another protest Thursday in Grand Junction, when he addresses the Colorado Municipal League's annual meeting.
The city notified the league that about 50 people will be on the sidewalk outside Grand Junction's Adam's Mark Hotel, carrying placards that attack the governor for his support of the gun-show initiative that's headed for the November ballot.
They will not, said the city, carry bullhorns nor impede pedestrian and automotive traffic. Presumably they won't be allowed inside the hall where Owens will make his lunch-hour speech.
"These guys have a lot of free time," observed Owens' aide Dick Wadhams.
Meanwhile, Bill Dietrick, legislative director of the Colorado State Shooting Association (an NRA affiliate), expressed great delight with his crowd's performance at the GOP assembly.
In a memo written that same evening, Dietrick praised them and a related group, the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, for their vocal and visual protest.
He described Owens as "so furious he was having trouble talking. His jaw was clenched, and he was red in the face. I've never seen him so nonplussed. He actually looked, at times, like he was going to cry!" — a reaction that escaped many other observers on the scene.
Dietrick bragged that "we elected every one of our pro-gun candidates as delegates" to the GOP national convention, claiming that "most of the governor's friends ended up as alternates."
"Let's keep it up and we'll run this state!" said Dietrick at the end of his memo.
Some delegates may oppose Owens on guns, but at convention's end they unanimously elected him their chairman in Philadelphia.
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Peter Blake's column appears Wednesdays and Sundays. Reach him at (303) 892-5119 or pblake2@aol.com
© Copyright, Denver Publishing Co.
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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.
A tip 'o the derby to the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners ( http://www.rmgo.org/ ).
http://www.insidedenver.com/blake/0611blake.shtml
Gun-rights folks to keep heckling Owens on the road
Peter Blake
Gov. Bill Owens will get no rest from the pro-gun folks who heckled him during his speech to the Republican State Convention last weekend.
He can expect another protest Thursday in Grand Junction, when he addresses the Colorado Municipal League's annual meeting.
The city notified the league that about 50 people will be on the sidewalk outside Grand Junction's Adam's Mark Hotel, carrying placards that attack the governor for his support of the gun-show initiative that's headed for the November ballot.
They will not, said the city, carry bullhorns nor impede pedestrian and automotive traffic. Presumably they won't be allowed inside the hall where Owens will make his lunch-hour speech.
"These guys have a lot of free time," observed Owens' aide Dick Wadhams.
Meanwhile, Bill Dietrick, legislative director of the Colorado State Shooting Association (an NRA affiliate), expressed great delight with his crowd's performance at the GOP assembly.
In a memo written that same evening, Dietrick praised them and a related group, the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, for their vocal and visual protest.
He described Owens as "so furious he was having trouble talking. His jaw was clenched, and he was red in the face. I've never seen him so nonplussed. He actually looked, at times, like he was going to cry!" — a reaction that escaped many other observers on the scene.
Dietrick bragged that "we elected every one of our pro-gun candidates as delegates" to the GOP national convention, claiming that "most of the governor's friends ended up as alternates."
"Let's keep it up and we'll run this state!" said Dietrick at the end of his memo.
Some delegates may oppose Owens on guns, but at convention's end they unanimously elected him their chairman in Philadelphia.
(non-gun-related stuff deleted here)
Peter Blake's column appears Wednesdays and Sundays. Reach him at (303) 892-5119 or pblake2@aol.com
© Copyright, Denver Publishing Co.
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The New World Order has a Third Reich odor.