And that’s whether you declare it as a news story or make it an agenda item for a city council meeting or whether that “agenda item” basically became a doxxing for “up to 20” people who are indeed at risk in their lives.

For those of you on the left who believe themselves to be the rulers of the lesser, I’m referring to the all of the sudden, most-important, breaking news of Cody Kennedy owning an investment property that has been leased to a nonprofit named “A Special Place.” I’ll further help these folks in letting them know Cody has other properties leased to this same nonprofit working with “at-risk” folks for the past several years.

So what makes this one different?

For that, we need to look at the other obvious reasons this particular story has legs. Considering this should have been written in January when things first became known about the property. Then again, that would require a story that would read 180 degrees opposite the stories in local media where they praised Cody for his work in providing properties for lease for this, and other, nonprofits.

As with all political things, it comes down to timing, where the story came from and what’s being reported.

I mean, what if the complaints in the “news story” originated from a registered agent of a candidate for city council in another race who happens to live down the street from the property in question? Or if one looks at the donor list of Cody’s “out of nowhere,” surprise opponent until the weekend before deadline, you’d see residents and spouses of the same neighborhood of the registered agent along with the names of current council members (including the mayor) and their spouses and the husband of the registered agent, although he seems to have a nondescript address close by.

So let’s look at the reporting that has been blown out of proportion by local media and the anti-Cody majority on city council. As I’ve mentioned, Cody’s business has been reported on before and in a very positive, benefitting-the-community kind of way. But that was before Cody was in the way of the GJ Politburo and its agenda. And we all know how that usually ends in the old Soviet Union. Luckily, some of us in media don’t belong to TASS.

And yes, I realize the current “story” was first printed in the Colorado Sun. Perhaps because the locals needed an excuse to take what they’d been covering as a positive and make it negative. I wonder why?

Well, let me tell you. That’s why you’ll find nothing in local reporting other than basically a regurgitation of the Colorado Sun story. And that’s because when a story elsewhere fits the agenda, there’s no sense in looking into it.

That’s why you read the constant repeating of the term “up to 20 residents” even though the home had never had 20 residents. You’ll read about a neighbor complaining they had “witnessed theft” because a shopping cart was in the front lawn of the residence. Nothing like a good stereotyping of the kinds of people shopping carts are associated with while claiming to not exercise intolerance or discrimination or make a political statement.

How about the commentary of a couple asking if they should carry “bear spray” for protection? Don’t they mean pepper spray? Well, bear spray does play better, because we all know folks on the left trust bears more than men.

Then there’s the neighbor who claimed a resident was smoking pot (I thought democrats thought pot cured all?), one “screamed obscenities (did someone’s teenager move in with them?), and the worst, someone walking their dog was stared at – apparently they’ve never taken a stroll in any neighborhood, dog or no dog?

What’s worse in the “reporting,” little of Cody’s responses with the Sun were reported. Locally, hardly any of Cody’s 14-page response has been reported.

Are these legitimate complaints? Perhaps. But do they rise to the level of we need a Delta House style “double secret probation” hearing at city council? Yet that’s what city council did. But that’s only part of what made this a political hit job.

It’s a political hit job because it was created as a political hit job. It walks, talks and squawks like a political hit job. And its cast of characters are from the local democrat party, even though our council elections are “nonpartisan” – all while hiding under the guise of saying all races should be contested. Finally, the timing screams it.

The Business Times would never run this kind of story so close to an election – no matter how many times the local, democrat chair used to push this kind of tripe. And he tried mightily the past few years. 

And you may complain The Business Times did a hit job with its editorial on HomewardBound and city council. But you’d be wrong.

Just ask Cody. Even with his well-thought-out response to this electioneering, I told him we’re too close to the election to do a story or letter to the editor. We have rules and ethics.

But I couldn’t resist a column. This needed to be called what it is.

In Christ and freedom.

Craig Hall is owner and publisher of the Business Times. Reach him at  (970) 424-5133 or publisher@thebusinesstimes.com.