The first is a short story of a good candidate who has worked hard on behalf of the residents of the 6th Congressional District – State Senator Morgan Carroll.
The second is a sordid tale of allegations of 13-years of human bondage by sex traffickers, forced sodomy, sexually transmitted disease (STD), increasingly debased sex acts and campaign contributions to Mike Coffman, the current Congressman for Colorado’s 6th District.
Morgan Carroll has a track record of leadership in both her professional career and in her tenure as a Colorado legislator. Support for women’s issues as an attorney and as a legislator is the foundation for her being endorsed by both Planned Parenthood and NARAL.
Yes, hers is an important story. It is an exemplary story. But is one with none of the prurient interest and attention grabbing sleaze of her opponent’s tainted campaign coffer.
Mike Coffman -- Morgan Carroll’s opponent – has accepted contributions from a fellow with very questionable standards of personal conduct and association.
What will the congressman from Colorado’s 6th Congressional District do with the $3,472 that he has accepted in campaign contributions from a mega-wealthy Silicon Valley venture capitalist and alleged woman abuser?
We can only hope he will give it back – IMMEDIATELY!
Honorable candidates say to contributors: “I won’t take your money until all these allegations are proven false. You may in fact be innocent, but until a jury decides these despicable allegations are false, I won’t take a penny from you.
That’s what Morgan Carroll would do.
Coffman, however, has already chosen to ignore the fact that too much dirty money is corrupting our electoral process. His campaign coffer is filled to overflowing with Dark and Dirty Political Action Committee (PAC) contributions. The candidate he defeated in 2014 proved it is possible to run a campaign in the 6th District without taking PAC money. So there is no reason for Coffman to not follow that honorable example and prove that he too is capable of campaigning free of the Dark and Dirty money that flows from PACs.
Hang on! The salacious stuff is coming.
Coffman should immediately write a check to Michael Goguen and assure the voters of Colorado’s 6th District that he is a candidate of honor who will not accept money from a fellow who reneged on an agreement to pay a woman $40-millon.
Yep, that’s a 4 followed by, count them seven zeros ($40,000,000).
That’s a lot of money, unless of course you’re a venture capitalist who has a 13-year relationship with a woman, to whom you are not married, but were married to three other women over that same 13-year period.
Goguen is a very rich guy who is must confront some serious allegations regarding his sex-life.
Not the sort of fellow that an honorable congressman from Colorado’s 6th Congressional District wants as a contributor.
Maybe, just maybe Goguen is a super rich Californian who got tangled up with, in the words of his attorney, “an exotic dancer” who is looking for a big payday.
As a constituent of the 6th district I DO NOT want my congressman taking money from Californians. I REALLY don’t want my congressman taking contributions from Californians who are so indiscreet in their private lives that they make $40-million deals with exotic dancers. And I REALLY, REALLY don’t want my congressman accept so much a red-cent from a Californian who has a collection of explicit photographs and text messages from an exotic dancer, which can conveniently be produced and submitted in a counter claim.
Yes, this kind of stuff goes on all the time. It has been going on since… well since there were “professions.” But members of the Colorado Congressional delegation and candidates for our Colorado delegation should not be taking money from Californians -- and certainly not from Californians entangled with professionals in the sex trades. Exotic dancers are part of that trade. And people who receive and keep photos of exotic dancers plying their trade are not the people from whom any candidate for congress should be accepting – and keeping – contributions.