It\u2019s a bit of a surprise that Heidi Ganahl, Colorado\u2019s Republican nominee for governor, selected an election denier as her running mate. Navy veteran and business consultant Danny Moore was booted from his role as chairman of the state\u2019s Independent Congressional Redistricting Commission after Facebook posts surfaced in which he wrote that President Biden was \u201celected by the Democrat steal.\u201d<\/p>\n
Throughout Ganahl\u2019s run up to the primaries, she ranged from gingerly sidestepping to outright refusing to answer questions about whether Biden was legitimately elected. Ganahl instead focused on economic and safety issues. We imagined her to be a reasonable, moderate Republican.<\/p>\n
Now, we don\u2019t know who she is. For Ganahl to choose her running mate, someone who lost a leadership position because of election-fraud posts, is downright bizarre.<\/p>\n
Maybe she\u2019s intending to reach more of a conservative base. Maybe Ganahl is a closet election denier. We don\u2019t know because so far, Ganahl hasn\u2019t come clean on her innermost political beliefs. To build trust, voters need to know who they\u2019re dealing with, no matter their political affiliations. Otherwise, we\u2019ll make assumptions based on the company she keeps.<\/p>\n
Moore\u2019s peers – those commission members – were unanimous in their decision to strip him of the redistricting leadership position, though he remained on the commission.<\/p>\n
Moore, owner of DeNOVO Solutions and Thornberry Consulting, which has the U.S. Department of Defense as a client, has also referred to COVID-19 as a \u201cChinese\u201d virus, echoing former President Trump\u2019s language on the pandemic. We wouldn\u2019t categorize these comments as those aligning with a moderate Republican.<\/p>\n
Ganahl, a member of the Colorado University Board of regents, has also been mum on John Eastman, a visiting scholar at CU\u2019s Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization and a legal architect of Trump\u2019s efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election. Standing next to Rudy Giuliani at a Jan. 6 rally, Eastman helped lead the charge of the insurrection.<\/p>\n
Ganahl has said multiple times that she \u201cnever met\u201d Eastman. But the pair exchanged at least 10 messages, as first reported by 9News in June.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have heard wonderful things about you and would love to get together if you are available,\u201d Ganahl wrote to Eastman on Oct. 6, 2020, according to 9News\u2019 source.<\/p>\n
She hasn\u2019t publicly rejected Eastman and his actions. This doesn\u2019t help Ganahl\u2019s credibility beyond a highly conservative base.<\/p>\n
Ganahl must be transparent. Or, by default, she will be judged by her associations.<\/p>\n
Our question for Ganahl is simple and direct. Who are you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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