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Aspen newspapers continue to whitewash or ignore allegation that Boebert’s opponent was blackmailed. ( Colorado )
the Aspen beat ^ | November 6, 2022 | Glenn K. Beaton

Posted on 11/07/2022 8:03:59 AM PST by george76

A few weeks ago, the Democrat candidate for Colorado’s Third Congressional District was accused of being blackmailed into changing his position on a matter of city policy while he was a city councilman in Aspen. He’s running against conservative firebrand Lauren Boebert, a person the liberal Aspen elite undisguisedly hate and would love to see beaten by Frisch.

The Aspen newspapers – part of that Aspen liberal elite – have mostly dismissed or buried the blackmail story, to the extent they’ve covered it at all. The Aspen Daily News finally published something over a week after the story broke elsewhere:

“The story — which Frisch, his family and his campaign deny — goes something like this: in May 2017, Frisch rode his bike to the storage unit owned by the local taxi company, which was caught on security footage. A staff member of the company subsequently found Frisch engaging in an extramarital activity in one of those units; a year later, when the city council was considering a “mobility lab” that Gardner found threatening to his business, the taxi company owner blackmailed Frisch into changing his vote, swinging the city council away from moving forward with a contract that would have brought rideshare companies such as Lyft more meaningfully to Aspen.”

The blackmail allegation glossed over by the newspaper is that the taxi owner has a video showing everything in the story except the sex in the storage unit; it’s undisputed that he sent that video to Frisch in an email; and the taxi owner himself says “it absolutely was blackmail.” It should be noted, but the newspaper article does not, that the blackmailer is no Boebert supporter — he calls her “clueless.”

Here are some questions that a real newspaper reporter might ask Frisch after his blanket denial:

You say you deny the story, but what part?

Do you deny that it was you in the video?

Do you deny that you waited for the woman in the video and then went into the storage building with her, as the video seems to show?

Do you deny having sex with her in the storage unit, as the taxi assistant says she witnessed?

Do you deny having received the taxi owner’s email attaching the video in the time frame during which city council was considering the mobility lab?

Do you deny that you failed to respond to the video with something like, “Huh? What’s this video?”

Do you deny that you failed to contact authorities to report what appeared to be an attempted blackmailing of you, as the taxi owner himself contends?

Do you deny that the blackmailing was successful – that the video changed your vote, as the taxi owner contends?

A fair reading is that Frisch implicitly admits the entire story, except the last point: He denies that the attempted blackmailing was successful. Rather, he apparently asserts that he was in the process of changing his mind anyway.

What Frisch is obviously eager to change now is the subject. But a real newspaper with real and unbiased reporters would not be so eager to oblige. A real newspaper with real and unbiased reporters would ask Frisch these questions. If he refuses to answer them, then a real newspaper with real and unbiased reporters would report his refusal.

Alas, apparently no such newspaper and no such reporters exist in Aspen.

“Democracy dies in darkness” – Washington Post


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: 2022election; 3rdcdcolorado; 3rddistrict; adamfrisch; aspen; blackmail; boebert; colorado; colorado3rdcd; democrat; demonicrat; election2022; frisch; glennkbeaton; larrygardner; lauren; laurenboebert; lyft; storageunit; uber

1 posted on 11/07/2022 8:03:59 AM PST by george76
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The general manager saw Adam Frisch having sex with the woman that rented the storage unit.. then the manager returned / running into the office and was red and laughing hysterically. We continued to laugh hysterically in the office for quite some time. I called a few of my buddies and they got a laugh out of it. Sex in a storage unit? Who wouldn’t?”

Gardner would not provide the name of the woman when asked because he said she is not running for office.. She has a family. I will tell you this: It’s a very well-known name. You would know it the minute I said it who it was…. It’s a very well-known name.”

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2 posted on 11/07/2022 8:18:07 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; ...
Larry Gardener owns a taxi company, apparently, among other things, and apparently has a video of Adam Frisch having an adulterous bang in a storage unit (how classy), and the Aspen Demagogic Party media shills don't want Frisch to be, uh, exposed, as he's running against Boebert. Thanks george76.

3 posted on 11/07/2022 8:19:37 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: george76
Aspen isn't even a real place

I went through there and could tell right away the place is fake so this stands to reason its a socialist fruitcake resort. The airport nearby was jammed with dozens and dozens of private jets parked, people all dressed up walking around high end boutique stores, its like they transported Ro-day-Oh drive in Beverly Hills to the rocky mts

Crested Butte is even worse, those areas sre socialist snob S-holes on steroids

4 posted on 11/07/2022 8:23:36 AM PST by KTM rider (, or how Ambassador Stevens was killed because he was about to testify before the UN council )
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To: KTM rider

Couldn’t get much higher.


5 posted on 11/07/2022 8:34:15 AM PST by Steely Tom ([Voter Fraud] == [Civil War])
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To: KTM rider

“Crested Butte is even worse, those areas sre socialist snob S-holes on steroids ”

That’s disappointing to hear, looks like a beautiful place.
Pictures I’ve seen make it look like the anti-Aspen .
Looks like a small town.


6 posted on 11/07/2022 8:38:01 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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To: HereInTheHeartland

Extramarital activity in a storage unit?

That’s Bill Clintonesque!


7 posted on 11/07/2022 8:51:45 AM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: SunkenCiv

The Aspen city councilman switched his vote , at the last minute, against a multi- million dollar - climate change - scheme to keep this affair temporarily quiet.

Like John Kerry: he was for it before he was against it


8 posted on 11/07/2022 9:10:11 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76

The woman’s name sounds like it would be interesting. So many libtards there, though, so lots of suspects.


9 posted on 11/07/2022 9:26:25 AM PST by dynachrome (“We cannot save Ukraine by dooming the US economy.” Rand Paul)
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To: KTM rider
Crested Butte is even worse, those areas are socialist snob S-holes on steroids

Live in western Colorado ... know Crested Butte quite well ... never came away with the impression it was snobbish. Ranking snob appeal in descending order Aspen, Telluride, Vail ... Crested Butte maybe a distant fourth.

10 posted on 11/07/2022 9:31:40 AM PST by BluH2o
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To: dynachrome

Likely the Aspen elites ( media, politicians.. ) know the open secret - the name of married wife with kids - jumping another wife’s husband in a storage unit = unheated, no plumbing , etc. ?


11 posted on 11/07/2022 10:17:58 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: george76
The press works to protect the power of the powerful...

12 posted on 11/07/2022 10:51:44 AM PST by GOPJ (Republicans won't 'split tickets' that's a MSM excuse for voter fraud on down-ticket races)
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To: george76

:^)


13 posted on 11/07/2022 11:34:42 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: george76

The important thing they ignore is that he changed his vote in order to benefit himself personally.


14 posted on 11/07/2022 2:13:23 PM PST by ModelBreaker
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To: ModelBreaker

Correct : he changed his vote to benefit himself personally.


15 posted on 11/07/2022 2:23:54 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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