Ritter Succumbs to a Labor Latino Coalition

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t was the tale of the tape. Ritter had been losing heavy weight status since he threw a one two punch at organized Labor and Latinos. In the end a knock out was scored but it was Ritter who hit the mat.

Ritter believing that he could be reelected only by pleasing GOP referees swung at the States labor community by dosing their top legislative agenda items. The Governor followed that round by completely denying any serious consideration of a Latino/a to fill the Senate seat vacated by now Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. Salazar was one of only two Latino members of the US Senate. An achievement apparently lost on the Governor and his staff.

The conventional wisdom among Democratic strategists is that the progressive base always comes home regardless of how you treat them. Ritter, unfortunately for him, believed the advice.

Notice to Dem consultants and their clients: This is not your fathers Democratic party. The Democratic coalition is more informed and less tolerant of broken promises, unfulfilled visions, and political switch – a- roos.


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[eleny]

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Edited to add: I'm glad we have some local radio hosts albeit mostly wingnuts and libertarians. But I'm going to listen to John Caldara again tonight. He's a bit less obnoxious than some of the rest. He's talking about all this again tonight and not sounding to happy (hee-hee). Mike Rosen held his powder this afternoon and just did some clam analysis. He wasn't optimistic that the GOP would win.