CO: GOP-on-GOP attack mailer photo altered to remove African-Americans [View all]

[angka]

You've got to see this one to believe it.

http://coloradopols.com/diary/40914/hardball-hackstaff-gessler-mailer-targets-gop-county-clerks

This mailing is hitting Mesa County Clerk Sheila Reiner on her support for House Bill 1303, the Colorado Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act updating a number of election laws and procedures. Very hard-hitting from a conservative point of view, this mailer warns that if House Bill 1303 passes, "felons, illegal immigrants, even the deceased could cast ballots!" Reiner is working with Barack Obama, says this mailer, to "undermine elections and allow rampant voter fraud." "Don't let the Democrats use HB 1303 to throw away your vote!"

By now, some of you have realized, based on your own knowledge, that

1. House Bill 1303 doesn't do any of that, and
2. Mesa County Clerk Sheila Reiner is a Republican...

We're astonished to even report this, but it's undeniable: they have Photoshopped out the African-American woman in the original photo. They also appear to have removed an African-American man standing behind her...

In the ugliest off-year that anyone we know can remember in Colorado politics, it appears we have hit yet another new low–and this one just makes you shake your head, folks. The worst adjectives you can think of really might actually apply to the deplorable gutter politics on display here.

Full story: http://coloradopols.com/diary/40914/hardball-hackstaff-gessler-mailer-targets-gop-county-clerks