Tom, please get up off your knees

The other day I wrote about Dick Wadhams in the RockyMountainPost vowing to go after the liberal campaign funders here in Colorado.  Looking back, Michael Riley actually wrote a well balanced piece especially compared to Tom McAvoy of the Pueblo Chieftain who must still have drool on his chin:

Dick Wadhams is a fighter, and an effective one at that. This attribute is one of the reasons Colorado Republicans turned to Wadhams to be their state party chairman a year ago.
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"[Stryker, Gill, et al,], Wadhams said, aren't 'going to get away with hiding in the shadows in this election.'"
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Republicans cannot find a more battle-tested warrior to meet "throat to the neck" tactics head-on. If the Democrats want a fight, Wadhams will give them one.

He goes on and on and on about the following:

-Dick Wadhams is grrrrreat!

-Wadhams is going to expose all those rich lefty funders

-"throat to the neck"

-funding campaigns and 527s is dirty and rotten

What a very interesting article you have there Tom.  With a title like Editorial Research Director why didn't your research discover that Dick Wadhams' nickname is Rove 2.0 for being "acknowledged to have taken such low blows to new heights, combining blistering verbal assaults, nasty wedge issues, and general loud-mouthing in an astonishingly effective manner"?

In contrast to funders Gill and Stryker, how about the $5.3 million Trailhead 527 funded by Bruce Benson, Pete Coors, and Bill Owens?

Some of their other donors:

Joel H. Farkas -  $100,000
Haselden Construction corp -  $100,000
Benson Mineral Group corp  - $75,000
Charlie Gallagher - $50,000
John Osborn - $50,000
J Landis Martin - $50,000
Jones International corp  - $50,000

What kind of politics were these folks funding?  Surely it's not the throat to the neck type you're deploring, nor the kind that includes Wadhams paid anonymous bloggers.  Surely it's not the kind of campaign tactics that include calling Arabs ragheads or a staffer of your opponent macaca.  Surely Mr. Wadhams won't again be the "itinerant political hit man known for his nasty attacks on opponents" as described by the Washington Post.

BTW Tom, in two spots you use the phrase foot on throat as referenced in that oh so damaging memo and then at the end it's "throat to the neck."  Last time I checked one's throat is in one's neck so what does that mean?

Thanks for reminding me about that article as it brings to light two very good other questions.

"Talk about hypocrisy," said Matt Sugar, spokesman for the Colorado Democratic Party. "And if Dick Wadhams is so interested in disclosure, perhaps he could enlighten us as to what millionaires are on the secret list attending Bob Schaffer's fund-raiser in Cherry Hills this Thursday with the president of the United States."

and

Wadhams was asked why he didn't protest when Common Sense Issues, a Republican group, aired an attack ad against Udall last December. CSI is a nonprofit 501(c)4. and, as such, does not have to immediately reveal its donors.
"I believe in full disclosure for everyone," Wadhams said.

Uh huh, sure.