Colorado Taxpayers Union gives Ed Perlmutter a big fat "F"

The government has no money of it's own. It must tax "we the people" first, in order to spend money. When you spend other peoples money like water, as Ed Perlmutter does, you're going to get yourself noticed by taxpayer watchdog groups.

Ed Perlmutter was given an "F" grade by the Colorado Union of Taxpayers, a non-partisan group advocating for taxpayers.

Conclusion? Ed Perlmutter loves taking your money and giving it to other people. He's made lots of friends that way. Nice work if you have the stomach for it, I suppose. Let's see what we can do to get Ed out of our pocketbooks.

You're nobody till somebody loves you

I want to be as clear as possible, I really don't care who replaces Ed Perlmutter. I'm fed up with the endless "happy talk" mailings I get from Ed, puffing up his own record. I was disturbed when I found that those fancy mailings are paid for with our tax money! Imagine that. It amounts to Ed spending my tax money on his own never ending campaign.

I'm fed up with no substance replies to my letters, emails and faxes. I was disgusted by Ed's cowardly "Town Hall" meeting, hiding inside King Soopers and the "Town Hall" turned astro-turf Obamacare rally. (Although it seems aomeone at SEIU is very interested in how it went.)

Well it's one thing to say "Anyone", but in reality there has to be a "someone". After some checking I found that "someone" would be named Brian T. Campbell. From his web site it looks like he has what it takes, hard worker, small businessman, attractive family, strong moral values, active in church and community. But the one thing he does not seem to have is money. According to OpenSecrets.org Ed has already raised 52 times more money than Brian. $465,240 to $8,579. Looks like someone has some serious fund raising to do if they are going to be our "Anyone". Go Brian, go!

Can you defend the Constitution if you don't know what it says?

In a stunning revelation, Big Ed reveals that our current health care system is unconstitutional!

Of course the Constitution says nothing at all about health care or the lack thereof and if the Founding Fathers could see the plan Ed is shilling for they would start a recall election. Not a bad idea in fact.

Is it ignorance or is Ed Perlmutter just being disingenuous?

Much Law but little Justice

It seems that Mr. Perlmutter is not above using his powerful position to help himself, his family, and once again, his special "friends".

Ross Kaminsky at the Denver Post opines :

"But their so-called good intentions can’t mask the blatant self-dealing and cronyism of Ed Perlmutter whose unethical actions are the obvious and necessary result of giving politicians dominance over our economy and the ability to choose winners and losers within the economy. Nobody should be surprised when the proposed winners happened to have contributed to the party in power."

For this reason alone, District 7 needs anyone but ed.

Before we begin, one nice thing about Ed Perlmutter

One nice thing you can say about Ed, he remembers his friends.
Ed Perlmutter is very loyal to his buddies, his voting record speaks for itself.

But why?

Could it be the Dirty Labor Dollars that flow into Ed's war chest, as documented on Dirty Money Watch?

Welcome to Anyone But Ed

Welcome to Anyone But Ed, the only internet blog devoted to the defeat of U.S. Representative Ed Perlmutter(D) from the 7th Congressional District of Colorado in his re-election bid in 2010.

In the coming weeks and months we will be working to show you exactly why we think having having Ed in public office is a "Bad Idea". Let's be clear, we at Anyone But Ed are not grinding a partisan ax. We will be happy to see Ed defeated in 2010 by a Republican, a Democrat or an Independent. Heck we'd be delighted to see Ed defeated by a monkey, if that would be the most expedient way to remove this party hack from office.

Around these parts our motto is "Anyone But Ed"!