Bleating for Corey

The local talk radio anti-immigration loonie, Peter Boyles, labors day and night to stir up some sympathy for Corey Voorhis, a Border Patrol agent who provided sensitive information to the Bob Beauprez campaign during the recent contest for Governor in Colorado. He uses this to trash a very good man, Bill Ritter, the winner of that election.

In 2004, the Republicans tossed a gigantic stink bomb into the Presidential campaign when the Vietnam draft dodgers, Bush and Cheney, trashed the patriot, John Kerry, with their swift boat ads. Kerry, by not defending himself against these outrageous lies, demoralized the Democratic party. He had a duty to his supporters, and himself, to attack his slanderers. Bill Ritter did not make the same mistake in 2006 in Colorado. When the Trailhead Group tossed their stink bomb into Colorado politics, the Ritter campaign threw it right back at them. Bill did his duty.

Corey Voorhis broke the law. Whenever the anti-immigration loonies wax poetical about the Mexicans, they always seal their argument by saying, "They broke the law, therefore they are criminals." By that very logic, Corey Voorhis is a criminal. He broke the law. Case closed.

Lastly, the time has come for Peter Boyles, Tom Tancredo, Lou Dobbs, and the whole pack of demagogues to put up or shut up. They will, capriciously, turn the Arkansas Valley into a wasteland if they get their way. Mr. Boyles should use his program to obtain pledges from his devoted listeners to bring in the harvest next year. They can all traipse down to Alamosa and put their deltoids where their mouths are.