The first results are in from Denver County and are showing Josh Sharf with an early lead against Rima Sinclair in the race to be the Republican candidate for HD-6:
Joshua Sharf: 69%
Rima Sinclair: 31%
Unfortunately, Denver County has oddly neglected to indicate how many precincts have actually been counted so there is no way to tell when counting will be complete.
Here are Joshua Sharf and Rima Barakat's closing remarks from the HD-6 Republican debate:
Joshua Sharf, blogger and candidate for HD-6, has uploaded video of Rima Barakat referring to Israelis as "baby killers" several years in an interview with KCNC. This would seemingly poke holes in Rima Barakat's attempted defenses in today's Rocky Mountain News in which she outright denies bashing Israel and "forgets" a number of her past statements:
Several weeks ago the Republican Assembly in House District 6 nominated a Hamas sympathizer by the name of Rima Barakat. Evidently Ms. Barakat won them over by claiming to be pro-life. The news of Rima Barakat's background was broken by Joshua Sharf and now after searching for a Republican opponent has decided to run himself. From Joshua Sharf's blog:
So, after casting about for a candidate to challenge Rima Barakat Sinclair, a candidate who's a legitimate conservative, reasonably articulate, with a history in the party, and a record of promoting free markets, personal liberty, and limited government, a group of us has finally hit on...er, me.
Yes, I'll be spending my summer just about the last way I thought I would, petitioning on to the ballot to force a primary, and then going on to represent the party in the fall election.
No, the blog's not going away. If anything, it's going to become more important, as a sounding board for ideas and issues. And as important as this race is to me, what profiteth it man if he gain the nomination and lose his personality?
If you'd like to contribute time or, eventually, money, drop me a line here or at my email, jsharf@jsharf.com, and you can be plenty sure I'll get back to you.
The adventure begins.
It is imperative that Sharf wins the nomination over Barakat. The last thing the Colorado GOP needs is to put up a Hamas sympathizer up as a candidate.
Joshua Sharf brings us this surprising report out of Denver's House District 6:
At their Assembly on March 1, they nominated a terror apologist, and an avowed enemy of Israel, with no credible conservative credentials as their candidate to succeed Rep. Andrew Romanoff. Her name is Rima Barakat Sinclair.
Mrs. Barakat Sinclair is a local Muslim activist, who 1) works to discredit Israel and for its destruction, 2) has a stated goal of getting Muslims involved in the political process, and 3) builds alliances with mainline and liberal American churches, and leftist political organizations. When engaged in anti-Israel propaganda, she usually goes by Rima Barakat. When engaged in broader political work, she goes by Rima Sinclair, as she did at the Assembly.
When asked questions about terror, she responds with moral equivalence, and then proceeds to outright fabrications. In order to discredit MEMRI, practically the only English-language source covering Arab Friday sermons broadcast on state media, she magnifies small discrepancies into malicious conspiracies. She claimed, on air, that the Hamas Charter does not call for the destruction of Israel.
Luckily, there is still enough time for another candidate to petition onto the ballot. The Denver Republican Party needs to mobilize to recruit a candidate and stop Rima Barakat from representing the GOP in this race. Rima Barakat is a leftist and her views on Israel and the War on Terror would be considered extreme even in most quarters of the Democratic Party.
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