The Colorado GOP machinery has paid for a range of hate ads against Bill Ritter, the Dem candidate for Governor here who has been endorsed by all the major media in the state.
The dollars have all flowed through a right-wing millionaire 527 club called the Trailhead Group, created by Governor Owens, Bruce Benson, and Pete Coors. (Trailhead is under both federal and state legal scrutiny, including 'overly-friendly' money laundering )...
The Coors' Club's most despicable advertisement featured an African American woman arguing that Ritter as DA had too-easily letoff the driver who killed her daughter in a hit-and-run. (The facts are that the woman agreed to the plea deal.)
Today, I found this about the ad's 'star', buried on page 11 of the Rocky Mountain News;
A week before September Dixon starred in a Republican TV attack ad calling Democratic gubernatorial candidate Bill Ritter a liar who cared more about the hit-and-run driver who killed her daughter than the victims, she was accused of trying to run down her ex-boyfriend and his woman companion.
"I am going to run you both over, and I'm going to kill you both," Dixon shouted in the Sept. 13 confrontation before allegedly making separate attempts to run down the man and woman outside an Aurora bar, according to an arrest warrant issued for Dixon this week by an Adams County judge.
The 27-year-old Dixon is charged in the arrest warrant with one count of felony criminal mischief for allegedly ramming the man's car and two counts of felony menacing for allegedly using her car to make the couple fear for their safety.
How much did the Coors' Club pay her?
What's their response to the hypocrisy?
Alan Philp, head of the Republican Trailhead Group that paid for the five-day ad, said he didn't think Dixon's latest run-in with the law and her lengthy criminal history undercut the credibility of her criticism of Ritter, the former Denver district attorney in the TV spot.
Will the television stations that ran the Coors' hate ad feature the above story in response, for at least as long as the ads ran?
