{"id":30833,"date":"2012-10-24T18:16:31","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T00:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=30833"},"modified":"2014-11-10T16:17:10","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T23:17:10","slug":"because-joe-miklosi-hates-children-especially-yours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/because-joe-miklosi-hates-children-especially-yours.html","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Because Joe Miklosi HATES CHILDREN &#8230; especially YOURS!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Um &#8230; not really.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a hotly contested race for the 6th Congressional District in Colorado. It&#8217;s been a traditionally very safe Republican district (Tom Tancredo was the Representative from here for several terms), and Mike Coffman has been pretty comfortable as the incumbent. \u00a0Except that <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/11\/redistricted.html\">we just redistricted<\/a>\u00a0(even though <a href=\"http:\/\/coffman.house.gov\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=53&amp;Itemid=3\">Coffman hasn&#8217;t bothered to update his map<\/a>), and it&#8217;s now a pretty even D\/R split, which means that the Republicans, especially lately as Coffman was slipping in the polls, have had to pull out all the stops to try and win.<\/p>\n<p>Thus today I got yet another piece of campaign recyclable glossy paper from the Colorado Republican Committee, all about &#8230; the EVIL, ANTI-CHILD, PRO-LAWYER, PRO-MOLESTER candidate for US Congress, Joe Miklosi:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Joe Miklosi Left Child Predators on Our Streets.<br \/>\nMiklosi Voted <em>Against<\/em> \u00a0Mandatory Minimum Sentences for Child Predators.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nMiklosi voted with the lawyers who defend these child predators, turning his back on Colorado&#8217;s families.<br \/>\nJoe Miklosi cast <em>one of the deciding votes<\/em>\u00a0against Jessica&#8217;s Law, leaving dangerous child predators on our streets.<br \/>\n<em>Failing to protect our children.<\/em><br \/>\nONE VOTE.<br \/>\nA lifetime of consequences.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>And it points to <a href=\"http:\/\/miklosivotingrecord.com\/2012\/10\/04\/joe-miklosi-voted-no-for-mandatory-minimum-sentencing-for-sex-offenders\/\">this page<\/a>\u00a0from the Mike Coffman (current R incumbent) campaign, which includes this lovely SCAAAARY VIDEO:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/t8pVkTVEHtU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Now, I don&#8217;t know Joe Miklosi personally, but I&#8217;m pretty sure that neither he (nor Mike Coffman) would actually vote to &#8220;leave dangerous child predators on our streets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So what was going on here? \u00a0<em>Let&#8217;s search the Internet!<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.denverpost.com\/thespot\/2012\/10\/08\/coffman-tv-explosive-ad-charging-miklosi-protecting-children\/83248\/\">Denver Post Fact Check<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.9news.com\/shows\/evenings\/293568\/510\/TRUTH-TEST-Anti-Miklosi-ad-scares-voters?odyssey=obinsite\">KUSA Fact Check<\/a>\u00a0(video below)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><object id=\"flashObj\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"videoId=1886747610001&amp;playerID=1684512070001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAB_wnNRk~,WN9MweAQd_td0WdYChlxOiyDQsJXaTMM&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"base\" value=\"http:\/\/admin.brightcove.com\" \/><param name=\"seamlesstabbing\" value=\"false\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"swLiveConnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/c.brightcove.com\/services\/viewer\/federated_f9?isVid=1&amp;isUI=1\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"videoId=1886747610001&amp;playerID=1684512070001&amp;playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAB_wnNRk~,WN9MweAQd_td0WdYChlxOiyDQsJXaTMM&amp;domain=embed&amp;dynamicStreaming=true\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"swliveconnect\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"pluginspage\" value=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/shockwave\/download\/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Long story short:<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;258,000 children abducted each year&#8221; number in the ad is goofy scare tactics, since it bears no resemblance to the number of &#8220;child predator&#8221; sexual attacks that occur in the country each year. (The vast majority of that number is abductions by family members, for example.)<\/p>\n<p>The tale in question has to do with the implementation of a &#8220;Jessica&#8217;s Law&#8221; for Colorado back in 2009. \u00a0That&#8217;s named after\u00a09-year-old Jessica Lunsford, who was raped and murdered in Florida. \u00a0That state&#8217;s Jessica&#8217;s Law includes mandatory minimum first-time sentences for child sexual predators and mandatory lifetime electronic tracking after release. A couple dozen states have enacted their own versions (in full or in part) of Jessica&#8217;s Law.<\/p>\n<p>In 2009, an attempt to pass <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leg.state.co.us\/clics\/clics2009a\/csl.nsf\/fsbillcont3\/D8D748336121969B8725753900619597?Open&amp;file=HB1144_00.pdf\">a Jessica&#8217;s Law minimum sentencing provision<\/a> in Colorado died in committee. Its supporters then tried to attach it as an amendment to another bill to toughen penalties on internet predators. That attempt failed, and Miklosi was one of the people (Democrat and Republican) who voted the amendment down by four votes.<\/p>\n<p>Miklosi says he voted against the amendment because it endangered the internet predator law by adding on an unfunded $19 million price tag. \u00a0Also, under Colorado law most child predators were already getting life sentences. (There&#8217;s a distinct lack of &#8220;because I want child predators out on the street&#8221; or &#8220;because I like child predators&#8217; lawyers&#8221; in his justification.)<\/p>\n<p>Miklosi went on to vote <em>for<\/em>\u00a0the internet predator bill.<\/p>\n<p>Bottom line: the Coffman ad trumps up misleading statistics, and offers a gross misrepresentation of what Miklosi did and his motivations in doing so.<\/p>\n<p>(The local police union <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joemiklosi.com\/colorado_police_officers_call_coffman_attack_ad_grossly_misleading_and_totally_false\">agrees<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>And sure, yeah, &#8220;that&#8217;s politics,&#8221; but <em>lying about someone supporting child abusers<\/em> strikes me as more than a bit beyond the pale.<\/p>\n<p>And art of what&#8217;s made this whole advertising campaign against Miklosi particularly pernicious is that, while it was running, <em>a young girl named Jessica<\/em> was kidnapped here in the Denver area. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/ci_21727269?source=bb\">The Coffman campaign was asked to suspend the ad<\/a>, but said &#8220;it wasn&#8217;t possible.&#8221; \u00a0Really? There were no other ads they couldn&#8217;t offer up to the TV stations instead?<\/p>\n<p>It strikes me as particularly pernicious, beyond the (lack of) veracity of the ad campaign, to further take advantage of a tragedy with it.<\/p>\n<p>So, while I&#8217;d been inclined to vote for Miklosi over Coffman before, I&#8217;m even more so now. \u00a0Thanks for making that decision easier, Mike and your Colorado Republican Committee cohorts! May you receive your deserved reward on November 6th!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Um &#8230; not really. This has been a hotly contested race for the 6th Congressional District in Colorado. It&#8217;s been a traditionally very safe Republican district (Tom Tancredo was the Representative from here for several terms), and Mike Coffman has been pretty comfortable as the incumbent. \u00a0Except that we just redistricted\u00a0(even though Coffman hasn&#8217;t bothered &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/24\/because-joe-miklosi-hates-children-especially-yours.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Because Joe Miklosi HATES CHILDREN &#8230; especially YOURS!&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[715,99,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-punishment","category-elections-2012","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":31114,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/02\/because-joe-miklosi-loves-murderers-especially-yours.html","url_meta":{"origin":30833,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Because Joe Miklosi LOVES MURDERERS \u2026 especially YOURS!&#8221;","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 2-Nov-12 7:12am","format":false,"excerpt":"Continuing the pretty consistent peppering of flyers (and, apparently, broadcast ads, though I don't listen\/watch those) from a worried Mike Coffman against his Democratic challenger Joe Miklosi, we get a doozy here, as a follow-up to previous ad campaigns: JOE MIKLOSI VOTED AGAINST KATIE'S LAW. 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It appears Mike Coffman has clearly beat Joe Miklosi to return to Washington in CO-6. \u00a0A shame, but on the bright side Coffman has been a proponent of defense\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132558,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/01\/17\/profiles-in-courage-it-wasnt.html","url_meta":{"origin":30833,"position":2},"title":"Profiles in Courage it wasn&#039;t","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 17-Jan-17 7:35am","format":false,"excerpt":"Mike Coffman is my congressional rep, so this hits pretty close to home.A couple of caveats: the actual soiree was advertised as \"one on one\" meetings, not a \"town hall.\" And Coffman did skip out only 6 minutes before the scheduled end time -- close enough that one could plausibly\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":44020,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/31\/oh-boy-i-love-being-in-the-electoral-cross-hairs.html","url_meta":{"origin":30833,"position":3},"title":"Oh, boy, I love being in the electoral cross-hairs","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 31-Jul-14 9:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"Because the joy of living\u00a0in a \"bellwether\" congressional district is a steadily escalating series of phone calls (from both sides, plus pollsters) from now until November.(Sigh.)\ufeff GOP incumbent in Colorado 6th CD in a race with implications for 2016 The Coffman-Romanoff race offers what could be an ideal experiment for\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137424,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/11\/06\/the-2018-election-the-colorado-perspective.html","url_meta":{"origin":30833,"position":4},"title":"The 2018 Election: The Colorado Perspective","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Nov-18 11:52pm","format":false,"excerpt":"(As of 11:50pm MST) The Candidates: Jared Polis (D) has won for governor (replacing the previous D who was term-limited out). 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