UPDATE: Caldara testified for the bill, which passed 8-3. Rep. Bob Gardner, R-Colorado Springs, noted that the cases that have occurred were in Boulder and Arapahoe County, not in his area. That’s because El Paso County doesn’t know how to have fun, Democrat Lois Court said.
“We have a lot of fun. We have one of the largest shootings ranges …. ,” Gardner said, getting cut off by laughter.
You’ve got to love Jon Caldara, Colorado’s most irreverent political figure who today weighed in on a bill that repeals decades-old laws banning adultery and criminalizing innkeepers who rent rooms to couples having affairs.
Caldara, president of the Independence Institute but speaking only for himself, said he wants the bill to pass because so many women, “binders of them,” want to have an affair with him but are afraid of being prosecuted.
Caldara offered a partial list of the women he plans to “make time with” if the bill were to pass, including Selma Hayek, Angelina Jolie, Marcia Brady, “the old Sophia Loren” and Margaret Thatcher.
My two favorites from Caldara: “That chick in the bikini from the Tab commercial when I was a kid,” and “Aunt Bea, but I’ve been in therapy for that.”
House Bill 1166 is being heard this afternoon before the House Judiciary Committee. The sponsor, Rep. Daniel Kagan, D-Cherry Hills Village, asked the famously libertarian (lower case) Caldara if he wanted to testify, but Caldara declined.
“Let me make very clear that the Independence Institute doesn’t wade into social issues and has no official stance on the bill so So allow me to speak solely for myself on this issue,” he wrote in his electronic newsletter. “There are busloads of married women who wish to sleep with me but are prevented from doing so solely by this outdated law. Binders full of them.
“And no, this is not just bravado speaking. In some of their applications for restraining orders against me they have mentioned this law specifically.”
Republicans must have flipped when they heard of Kagan’s invitation. His was one of the swing seats they failed to capture in 2012, and no doubt they don’t want Caldara to give him any more publicity.