Looks like Bill Hoff is trying to get the word out about his Ward I Greeley City Council candidacy. He (or someone using his name) posted two prewritten comments in two separate locations on this site.

I’m going to delete two of them, the other two are comments on the Recall election set for December 12 post.

Bill, If you read this post, I would suggest caution in this type of activity. Canned responses like this are often regarded as spam. If you would like to write an original post for our site I would be happy to let you publish it verbatim as a guest blogger.

Within the next year busses will connect the Greeley mall to east Loveland. This is undoubtably a great step in the right direction, but both Loveland and Greeley need to make sure this isn’t a wasted effort and bolster their in-town public transportation to support this new route.

Democrats are now back in charge of Congress. This is the first time since 1994 that the party has controlled both houses and already they are attempting to do something more ridiculous than make Pelosi Speaker of the House.

New York Democrat Charles Rangel is attempting to reinstate the draft, a proposal that 7 out of 10 Americans are against.

Democrats won this election on promises to put an end to the situation in Iraq and one of the first publicized actions they are considering is conscription. Wow, will these guys EVER learn?

The election is over. Here is a recap of what we have learned.

1. Marilyn Musgrave is NOT popular It’s fairly obvious from the vote differential and the amount of votes garnered by a third party candidate that Marilyn is not as secure as she could be. If the democrats had provided a stronger candidate the Angie Paccione they very well could have unseated Marilyn, even in a historically Republican district.
2. Politicians should kiss babies Jim Riesberg showed that a Democrat can hold on to his seat if he works for it. All Dave Owen did was send out pretentious letters signed with an ‘Honorable’ in front of his name (what the heck does that mean - I wouldn’t vote for a ‘dishonorable’ candidate) and pose in pictures where he looked like someone should check his pulse. Meanwhile Riesberg was out in the public, throwing pig roasts and whatnot. No wonder he handily won.
3. Coloradoans are not sympathetic to Gays It’s a live and let live world, but when it comes down to homosexuals exchanging wedding vows, Coloradoans are not quite the ‘progressive’. Both amendments addressing this went to the straight camp. Not really a shock.
4. Americans are tired of the Iraq occupation I can’t even call what’s going on in Iraq a war anymore. The soldiers over there are risking their lives in a role more suited to policemen than soldiers. The sooner our government figures a way out of that mess, the better.
5. President Bush is on the run Wednesday’s resignation of Rummy indicated to me that the President is backpedaling. My guess is the GOP is going to due a quick turnaround on the whole Iraq thing real quick. The people have spoken and their best bet now is to figure out a way to blame the whole fiasco on the Democrats - which shouldn’t be too hard since they are now in control of Congress.

Election time is so interesting. It’s always funny to me to drive around an notice people’s political affiliations.

Look Marge, the Johnsons have campaign posters in their yard. Such nice people, who would have thought they were democrats. Guess little Billy isn’t going to be able to go to Freddy’s birthday party after all. Thank God we found out.

What I find amusing is the way that everyone seems to support ALL of the party candidates. Sure, Angie Paccione and Bill Ritter are both decent candidates, but Solomon Little Owl? Come on. I really like when there are all of the major candidates’ posters in the yards and along with two or three candidates for school board or county commissioner that you’ve never heard of, but are supposed to vote for because they are Republicans. If everyone just supports one party’s candidates, why do we even bother to vote for individuals? Why don’t we just go down and select D or R? Our whole society wants to pigeonhole EVERYONE as either a liberal or a conservative - both groups painting the other as devils. I know I don’t fit perfectly into either mold, and I’m guessing you don’t either.

Remember, when you go to vote, don’t vote for a party, vote for a person.