Sean Tonner

With a New Year dawning tomorrow, there will be 366 new days (one extra because of leap year) for politicians to cause mischief and mayhem in the state of Colorado. Therefore the Inside Edge has offered ten lucky politicians ten resolutions to make for the New Year to limit the carnage and confusion in Colorado in 2008.

1) Congressman Doug Lamborn: “I hereby resolve that in 2008 I will not leave angry voice mail messages on any constituents’ phone no matter how true their charges are against me, even if those charges are published in a widely-read thought-journal with vast circulation like the Woodmen Edition. Instead I’ll just send hate mail.”

2) Former Jefferson County Treasurer Mark Paschall:

3) Secretary of State Mike Coffman:

4) State Senator Thomas Wiens: “I hereby resolve that in 2008 I will actually run for a political office that I’ve talked about.”

5) U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer:

6) Governor Bill Ritter:

7) U.S. Senate Candidate, Congressman Mark Udall:

8) State Senator Ken Gordon:

9) Colorado County Clerks and Recorders:

10) Political Consultant, Sean Tonner: “I hereby resolve that in 2008 I’ll stop hurting my clients with my political advice, like I did with Coors, Owens, Trailhead, Beauprez, Coffman. Wow. That’s a pretty sorry record. Maybe I should resolve to stop working in politics all together?”

Democratic and government watchdog groups are criticizing Secretary of State Mike Coffman after finding a political consulting firm that works on behalf of his Congressional campaign is also a client of a voting machine manufacturer, according to news reports published today.

The consulting firm, Phase Line Strategies of Highlands Ranch, has helped Coffman throughout his campaign in the Sixth District race – Sean Tonner, the firm’s president, has been Coffman’s de facto spokesperson . Phase Line has also worked for Texas-based Premier Elections Solutions since August, according to the Rocky Mountain News.