http://denver.yourhub.comThe latest story posts in The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.comen-usnews@yourhub.com(c) 2009, YourHub.com5GOP Senate candidate Bob Schaffer has put his foot in it. Both feet, in fact. He recently suggested the US should adopt a guest-worker program that includes virtual slavery, prostitution and forced abortions. Why would he conceivably do this? Apparently all it took was a free luxury vacation from...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~453807.aspx4/10/2008 9:19:37 AMRalph Dosser More details are emerging about the mutual friends of Colorado GOP senate candidate Bob Schaffer and jailed superlobbyist Jack Abramoff, who pleaded guilty to mulitple counts of bribing politicians in 2006. While no direct link between the two has been established yet, they apparently had a lot o...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~454613.aspx4/11/2008 2:12:51 PMRalph Dosser You certainly won't find anything in the Longmont Times-Call, but other Colorado media are talking about Bob Schaffer's ties to slave-shop operators in the U.S. protectorate of the Norther Mariana Islands. The Denver Post has led the coverage with excellent analysis of Schaffer's initimate and en...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~455759.aspx4/14/2008 4:38:51 PMRalph Dosser Virtual slavery, beatings, forced prostitution (including child prostitution), forced abortions - these are all well known practices at the Saipan sweatshops that GOP senatorial candidate Bob Schaffer recently held up as a "model." In 2006, Bill Moyers produced the television program "Capitol...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~456092.aspx4/15/2008 11:07:46 AMRalph Dosser The guys at Google - who put the "gee whiz" back into the internet every day - have given the Front Range a present ahead of most of the country. A 3-D interactive photographic map of the whole danged Front Range. It's hard to describe Google Streetmaps if you haven't seen it, so just go look ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/General-News/Story~459318.aspx4/22/2008 9:14:24 AMRalph Dosser The Times-Call has put together a rather nifty Google map showing reported crimes in our fair city . It looks like they've been doing this for at least a few weeks, but recently updated their flags to better represent the type of incident. It's a little claustrophobic - the map can't be re...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Crime/Story~472615.aspx5/20/2008 12:50:20 PMRalph Dosser A recent poll shows Democratic candidate Betsy Markey leads incumbent Republican Marilyn Musgrave in the race for Colorado's 4th District Congressional seat. The poll - commissioned by the Markey campaign - shows her leading Musgrave 43 percent to 36 percent, outside the 4.9% margin ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~473140.aspx5/21/2008 10:37:22 AMRalph Dosser Republican Bob Schaffer's campaign for the US Senate has finally gotten a substantial website on the air. It's not a bad effort, to be honest, but doesn't match up to the site of his Democratic opponent Mark Udall by several measures. The short version: Udall gets the web, Schaffer do...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~477504.aspx5/31/2008 9:57:19 AMRalph Dosser Those poor holdout soldiers - nobody told them the war is over. They're clutching tight to their rusted, useless rifles, proudly waving tattered flags and swearing never to surrender islands that nobody's fighting for anymore. Our own local holdout is Richard Yale - a prolific contributor to ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/Archive/Activism/Story~478660.aspx6/2/2008 7:05:36 PMRalph Dosser So "Big Oil" Bob Schaffer has a new campaign ad out, and it's a doozy. If you believe it, Schaffer's just about the best friend the environment ever had, what with his support of wind and solar power. The ad - paid for by a group called "Coloradans for Economic Growth" - even features a Toyot...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~479000.aspx6/3/2008 1:01:19 PMRalph Dosser Betsy Markey, the Democratic challenger to 4th District congressional incumbent Marilyn Musgrave - has gotten a big boost in funding support from her party. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) has added Markey to their "Red to Blue" list, meaning they will give her financia...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~485859.aspx6/19/2008 10:41:17 AMRalph Dosser Democratic senate candidate Mark Udall has extended his lead over GOP rival Bob Schaffer, and now has a 49%-40% lead, according to polling firm Rasmussen Reports. In its latest monthly poll, Rasmussen found that Udall now has a 16% edge among women voters, and also dominates independent vote...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~486114.aspx6/19/2008 3:15:41 PMRalph Dosser When people stop vaccinating their children, disease breaks out. It's that simple. The biggest recent case has been Nigeria, where In 2003, Islamic religious leaders called on their followers to boycott UN-provided polio vaccines, claiming they were contaminated. UN and Nigerian government of...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Society/Story~490807.aspx7/1/2008 2:58:33 PMRalph Dosser You may never have heard of " Right for Longmont " - it's a blog run by the Longmont Republican Women. Technically it's a blog, I guess, but it ony sees a new post about every 2-3 weeks, and every post on the site (dating back to March 17) has a dismal "0 comments." Ride the wave, GOP women! ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~492597.aspx7/5/2008 8:17:44 PMRalph Dosser Fourteen years ago, measles had been stamped out in the United Kingdom through comprehensive vaccination. But anti-vaccination hysteria has dropped immunization rates to the point where local outbreaks are increasing in scope and severity, and the disease will soon become epidemic, according to t...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Nation-World/Story~493474.aspx7/8/2008 3:44:28 PMRalph Dosser Measles was all be eliminated in the US just a few years ago, but it's making a comeback, sickening 127 people in 15 states, most of whom were not vaccinated against the virus, federal officials announced Wednesday. Numerous news outlets have the story , announced by the U.S. Centers for D...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/General-News/Story~494722.aspx7/11/2008 12:25:09 PMRalph Dosser The Greeley Tribune has blasted endangered incumbent Marilyn Musgrave for her "cynical ploy" of revisiting a proposed gay marriage ban in the run-up to the election. In an editorial in today's editions , the paper says: "Like one of Pavlov's dogs reacting to the sound of a bell, the 4th ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~497287.aspx7/18/2008 9:13:17 AMRalph Dosser Conservative Rocky Mountain News columnist Vincent Carroll said Friday that GOP Senate Candidate Bob Schaffer's latest attack on Democratic opponent Mark Udall is "rubbish" and that "Schaffer should cut it out." In his regular column in Friday's editions, Carroll said Schaffer has labeled...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~497538.aspx7/18/2008 4:37:14 PMRalph Dosser GOP Senate Candidate Bob Schaffer and several of the most embattled incumbent Republican senators are going to skip the upcoming Republican national convention in St. Paul, Minn., according to an article in The National Journal. Republican Schaffer, who has closed the gap on Democratic oppon...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~500323.aspx7/25/2008 7:52:14 PMRalph Dosser John McCain has been MIA his responsibilities as a United States Senator since April of this year. It's inevitable for presidential candidates to let their day jobs suffer for the sake of their campaigns, but John McCain is dropping jaws across the country with his near-complete abandonment of hi...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~501306.aspx7/29/2008 10:47:29 AMRalph Dosser The dying McCain campaign - increasingly tangled up in the candidate's own mistakes - is thrashing around trying to recover its footing, and is falling back on the first page in the old GOP playbook: bald-faced lies. McCain's latest whopper is about Obama's successful world tour. During the G...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~501657.aspx7/29/2008 9:19:44 PMRalph Dosser Barack Obama is such an arrogant elitist that he has worn a pair of $520 black leather Ferragamo shoes on every recent campaign stop. What an uppity thing to do, wearing expensive, imported shoes, even when visiting hard-pressed American workers. Wait, correction - it's not Obama, but down-to...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~503175.aspx8/1/2008 10:12:05 PMRalph Dosser While big oil and its GOP allies call for more drilling in the U.S., the oil companies have opened the spigots the other way to pump oil away from home and towards more lucrative markets. The amount of refined petroleum products, including gasoline, diesel and jet fuel, climbed to nearly 1.6 ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~503984.aspx8/4/2008 3:10:36 PMRalph Dosser John McCain, a long-time opponent of offshore oil drilling in U.S. waters, flip-flopped on the issue in June, right about the time the oil money started rolling in. Oil and gas executives and employees gave McCain $1.1 million in June, most of it after his June 16 acrobatics. That's not to sa...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~504345.aspx8/5/2008 10:02:16 AMRalph Dosser UPDATE: I had included three images from Justin Schaffer's webpage, but have removed them at the request of YourHub management because of their offensive nature. They can still be seen preserved here. ----------------------- Bob Schaffer is getting it from all sides, literally. His worst...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~504829.aspx8/5/2008 8:27:04 PMRalph Dosser John McCain made an enormous blunder last week: he proposed sending more of Colorado's precious water downstream to fill pools and water golf courses in Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Maybe he got confused and didn't realize he was talking to a Colorado newspaper when he said it, or maybe he thought ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~509974.aspx8/19/2008 8:09:01 AMRalph Dosser Quick, how many houses do you own? That's an easy question for most people, but hundred-millionaire John McCain can't tell you off the top of his head. When asked Wednesday, he does what he always does with the tough questions: punted it to his staff: "I think - I'll have my staff get to ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~510955.aspx8/21/2008 6:57:23 AMRalph Dosser If you want to get exposed to measles, go to a home schooling conference, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Two recent U.S. measles outbreaks have included disproportionately large numbers of unvaccinated home-schooled children, who become both victims and carr...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Nation-World/Story~511772.aspx8/22/2008 11:35:42 AMRalph Dosser The talking heads had their talking point, and they flogged it hard: the presidential nominee was a gigolo. Their evidence: He married into big money. He's never had a real job, aside from his military service. Yet he's one of the richest men in the US Senate. He proclaims to be "for ...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~511927.aspx8/22/2008 2:44:27 PMRalph Dosser This is pretty big. The GOP - normally swimming in cash - finds itself poor this election, and is cutting back its ad buys for senate candidates - including Colorado transplant Bob Schaffer , who desperately needs the help. According to an article in Sunday's Denver Post , the GO...http://denver.yourhub.com/Longmont/Stories/News/Politics/Story~512528.aspx8/24/2008 10:23:03 PMRalph Dosser