- Libertarian Candidate For Senate Doesn't Mince Words
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- Colorado politicos have been expecting fireworks in the
battle between Wayne Allard and Tom Strickland, but a third contender in
the U.S. Senate race is rolling out the dynamite.
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- In a candidate profile completed by Libertarian candidate
Rick Stanley for the Rocky Mountain News's Web site, he offered this judgment
of Allard's first term in office:
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- "I believe he should be indicted for treason,"
Stanley wrote of the Republican incumbent. "Hung, when found guilty."
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- Isn't capital punishment a shade . . . severe?
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- "Actually, I do" mean that literally, Stanley
said Friday. "All of these people (in Congress) are traitors."
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- Pressed for specifics, Stanley said:
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- "Wayne Allard voted for the Patriot Act. That violates
the Constitution seven or eight different ways. You could take almost any
legislation over the last 100 years and say the same thing."
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- Stanley, like many Libertarians, believes both the federal
income tax system and Federal Reserve violate the U.S. Constitution.
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- Dick Wadhams, the veteran campaign strategist managing
Allard's re-election bid, let loose an involuntary, if muted, monosyllabic
exclamation of surprise, as the quote was read to him.
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- After collecting himself, he counterpunched.
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- "It is unfortunate that someone would engage in
that kind of vitriolic and irresponsible rhetoric," said Wadhams,
"in light of what this nation has been going through, since September
11th."
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- But Stanley believes that the "elite of this country
are turning our beloved nation into a police state," and that our
elected leaders "have failed to honor the oath that each of them swore
to defend the Constitution, and are therefore traitors, terrorists from
within that must be brought to justice."
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- The Strickland campaign declined comment on Stanley v.
Allard.
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- Alan Philp, executive director of the Colorado Republican
Party, went to the same page of the playbook as Wadhams.
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- "My only response would be, it's a completely spurious
and malicious charge that has no place in legitimate political dialogue
in this country, especially in the wake of 9/11," Philp said.
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- Stanley, co-owner of Stanley Fastener and Shop Supply,
states on his Web questionnaire that his diploma from Arvada West High
School marks "the end of formal government Socialist indoctrination."
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- His favorite book, he reveals, is Ayn Rand's paen to
the virtue of free will, Atlas Shrugged. His favorite sports team? The
University of Northern Colorado intramural basketball team known as The
Fightin' Whites -- although he mislabels them "the Fightin' Whities."
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- http://www.insidedenver.com/drmn/election/article/0,1299,DRMN_36_1126498,00.html
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