The Gazette Documents a Mark Udall Lie

For almost a year, The Gazette editorial page editor has avoided mentioning Mark Udall's name. 

Today, he even got his name in the editorial page headline "Udall Wants SDS to Stall."  It begins:

   Never mind that five years of extensive study and community discourse have run their course. Never mind that the official public comment period has come and gone. Never mind that the Southern Delivery System, needed for the future water supply of Colorado Springs, has been studied and debated to a point of exhaustion.

   Forget all that, because U.S. Rep. Mark Udall is running for election to the United States Senate. What may be good for his campaign, it appears, holds more weight with the congressman than what's good for the economic welfare of Colorado.

The Gazette is more circumspect than I am.  They never actually called him a liar.  They just documented the lie:

   In his letter, Udall expresses concern that the Southern Delivery System might somehow interfere with a bill he has introduced in the House of Representatives. He wrote: "I am also concerned about the implications for legislation that I have introduced (H.R. 4928) that would require a study of the feasibility of a Fountain Creek storage facility to benefit the communities of Pueblo and along the Lower Arkansas Valley."

   This concern contradicts the language of the very bill Udall references. The bill clearly states that a feasibility study of a Fountain Creek storage facility may not interfere with any study pertaining to the Southern Delivery System. Here are the exact words, from Section 3, of Udall's bill: "The Chief of Engineers shall conduct the study independently from, and shall not affect, any other study relating to - (A) the Fountain Creek watershed; (B) the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project of the State; or (C) the proposed Southern Delivery System Project."

Mark Udall didn't want to have Ben DeGrow host a debate because his blog had used a label "Mark Udall as a Liar,"  He didn't deny that he was a liar.  He couldn't, because every instance was documented.  He is just uncomfortable being publicly called a liar.

Mark Udall is a liar, and like many liars, he is not a careful liar.  His lies are frequent and easily documented.

Of all of the lies that Mark Udall has told, this may be the most dangerous.  In 1998, when Bill Owens was running for Governor, his opponent opined in a debate that if she were elected, Colorado Springs would get no highway funds.  She lost by 6,000 votes.  One wonders if she would have won if she had been willing to treat Colorado Springs fairly.