Trucker protest/embargo of Colorado

In a different situation, the point of making an example of an offender to send a message to the rest of that industry is often employed and lauded. Why are things different in this case? In all fairness, I believe the company he was driving for is partly responsible for assigning him a mountain route if he is an inexperienced driver. That may still happen, we may not have gotten to that point yet. But if his sentence sends a message through the trucking industry that you better regularly improve your skills, then good.

Anyone who gets behind the wheel of a vehicle is responsible for the damage it may impose from their lack of skill. I have seen too many people driving down that grade with smoking brakes because they didnt know what they were doing. But, small car, so give them a pass? I dont think so.

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Originally Posted by CS1983

Odd argument... that negligence leading unintentionally to someone's death is worse than the sexual, physical, psychological violation of rape and that we should feel bad for someone who premeditated a multiple 1st degree murder scenario.

Try harder.

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He had many opportunities to make better choices. His initial choice, as described by witnesses, was speeding. He was breaking the law by speeding. That was the initial bad, illegal choice that lead to death.

Just as a street racer would be sentenced to a long prison if he killed 4 people, this guy made chocies. Many of them over a long period of time. He could have taken many of the truck ramps.

He was a criminal (and convicted one at that).

Many crimes dont have "intention" in them. The guy/gal that get drunk and kills someone, never intended to kill someone. The intended to have drinks. I doubt there is more than 1% of drunk drivers in prison that started out intending to kill their victims. 1% is generous. But it is still a crime.

An organization of CO DA's publishes a weekly e-mail series featuring linked articles of interest to their members. This week the organization linked the articles on the I-70 Crash Sentence including the one by the brother of one of the victims calling Jared Polis a 'despicable human being': Brother of I-70 crash victim blasts Gov. Polis for reducing sentence for Rogel Aguilera-Mederos. See link:https://denver.cbslocal.com/2022/01/...ilera-mederos/

The other article is one published by former DA Craig Silverman, a frequent conservative writer and commentator. While the organization's newsletter link doesn't imply endorsement of the content of the opinion piece it suggests to me that many prosecutors and judges don't think well of Governor Polis's usurpation of the legal process for cheap votes from social media crowd.

Read Craig Silverman's marvelous take on this: https://coloradosun.com/2022/01/03/s...itics-opinion/

Craig Silverman is no conservative. He is about as liberal as it gets. I used to listen to him on the radio, and (probably shouldn't) follow him on twitter.

Did Kyle Clark actually do something useful...

https://www.9news.com/article/news/l...1-adf23582ee6a

The Colorado GOP will probably drop the ball on this, like they do everything else.

Dan Caplis, is all over this.

https://khow.iheart.com/featured/dan-caplis/

He is an ambulance chaser (forgive me, but it is true) and politically motivated (anti-abortion), and quite Catholic.

I was listening to him on the way home today, and he hopes this will blow up, and render Polis unelectable in (the next election.)

I cant listen to Caplis. Despite that I generally agree with his positions, I dislike his style and I get real sick of his war on weed that seems to dominate nearly every show. Gets old.

He makes money from calling weed smokers murderers.

Yeah, I should probably not listen to him any more. Got to be something else better (conservative) on the drive home.

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Originally Posted by arbol

He makes money from calling weed smokers murderers.

Yeah, I should probably not listen to him any more. Got to be something else better (conservative) on the drive home.

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Not sure what time you drive home, but my drive home I listen to Jesse Kelly on Freedom 93.7. 4-7pm. Pretty entertaining.

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Originally Posted by hollohas

Not sure what time you drive home, but my drive home I listen to Jesse Kelly on Freedom 93.7. 4-7pm. Pretty entertaining.

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This. Jesse is a riot. If I am headed home later I catch Joe Pags.

Caplis and Sean Hannity both put on shows that I dont find interesting. Anymore I flip the station if either of them are on. Never could get into Michael Savage either.