Larimar County Clerk Angela Myers (R) ordered that copies of the Tuesday edition of the Rocky Mountain Collegian, the student newspaper for Colorado State University, be removed from newsstands at the school’s student center
The paper featured a front-page story about Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO), who is locked in one of the closest Senate races in the country — and therefore Myers said that they violated electioneering laws, according to the Rocky Mountain Collegian’s own report on the controversy.
Myers cited a state law that said “no electioneering may take place within a 100-foot limit of any polling location.”
“When you have a paper that has a candidate on the very front like it does, we will need that to be displayed outside the 100-foot limit,” she said.
The headline for the online edition of the story was: “Sen. Udall visits Colorado State Monday.”
“Myers also said newspapers with prominent front-page coverage of Michelle Obama’s Thursday visit to CSU’s campus would also be moved outside the 100-foot radius,” the newspaper reported.
The newspaper’s executive editor, Kate Winkle, said that Myers’ actions were “a violation of the First Amendment.”
“The Collegian was covering an event, we are not campaigning for Mark Udall and we would have had the same coverage had Cory Gardner or any politician affected by this election come to campus,” Winkle said. “I hope that the Larimer County Clerk’s office continues to respect the freedom of the press
Image via the Rocky Mountain Collegian. (h/t Romenesko).
Stupid woman. All that means is that local news will cover widely, further ginning up support for Udall. Who is going to win.
Thus continues the GOP’s/Teatrolls’ assault on journalism in order to cow it into obeisance to their agenda. If it’s not threatening them, it’s nurturing a symbiotic relationship whereby the MSM is vomit-fed the wormy red meat nontroversy it needs to fill the 24/7/365 “news” cycle with sensationalized false equivalence, and the GOP/Teatrolls thereby reap the benefit of kid-glove coverage in which the “L-word” is taboo and shit like “Thomas Jefferson wanted this to be a nation of Christian laws” is treated as a legitimate argument worthy of serious consideration and debate. Yum nom nom nom chirp chirp.
Alright, yes, she has a good point, but sometimes, just sometimes, the best thing to do is to not whine, demand, or throw a tantrum, but respectfully ask that the news stand be moved if at all possible.
newspapers are not campaign material. I also believe there is something in the 1st Amendment about freedom and the press.
someone needs a refresher course.
She may, and I repeat may, have a point on the Udall cover, but on what basis would she remove a cover featuring Michelle Obama?