@FencePostNews production & design coordinator. Greeley Gadfly creator. @UNC_Colorado poli sci grad. Okie native. 🍺
Nov 11, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
The Twitter verified fiasco reminds me of something. Allow me to thread.
Back when I worked at the @GreeleyTribune and the newspaper still had its own press in the back, every so often all employees would have to attend government-mandated safety hazard meetings because of the ink and related chemicals being stored in the building.
Nov 9, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
For what it’s worth, the signs were all there.
- Supreme Court reduces rights for half the population (the half that votes more and lives longer).
- Dem over-performance in special elections.
- Generic ballot average showing Dem growth and GOP decay.
But forecasters and national media got duped by a constant stream of GOP-aligned and funded pollsters claiming bonkers numbers that nonpartisan pollsters just never found.
Nov 9, 2022 • 29 tweets • 15 min read
OK, Colorado. Let’s see what you have to say.
With the first vote drop from Weld County, Republican Barb Kirkmeyer is taking the Weld portion of the new #CO08 by 56.8 to 39.4 over Dem Yadira Caraveo. Libertarian Richard Ward is capturing 3.8%.
Kirkmeyer needs to run up her vote share in Weld to win.
Greeley is getting a lot of hate on social media today because of a Tweet with a Map about cities in every state that people like to Dunk On.
But I just want to note real quick that the VAST MAJORITY of the hate re: Greeley is 1. factually inaccurate and 2. largely just prejudice against poor and working class people.
