Colorado GOPer Accused Of Storming Away From Aurora Victim’s Dad

[angka]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Alex Sullivan, 27, was one of the young men killed last year in the Aurora, Colo. movie theater shooting, and his father wanted a high-ranking Republican lawmaker to know what gun violence had taken away from him.

So this week, Tom Sullivan went to a forum being held by Denver Post. State Senate Minority Leader Bill Cadman was there answering questions about the recent legislative session in which several gun control measures were debated and passed.

Sullivan was allowed to ask the last question of the forum, and he confronted Cadman about the way a number of legislators conducted themselves during the session. Cadman’s defensive response was caught on video and later posted online. But Sullivan told TPM on Friday there was an even more uncomfortable interaction between the two men after the event.

Sullivan said he approached Cadman to give him a collage with pictures of Alex.

“I walked right up to him, and I handed him one of the pictures, and I said, ‘This is a picture of my son,’” Sullivan recounted. “He looked me right in the eyes and he said angrily to me, ‘I know what he looks like,’ and he walked away.”

Read more: http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2013/05/aurora-colorado-father.php

---

Read more about this shocking incident this week in Denver:

http://coloradopols.com/diary/43047/video-gop-legislative-leaders-meet-aurora-shooting-father

The original video of the exchange between Tom Sullivan and Colorado Senate Minority Leader Bill Cadman:

[mbperrin]

1. Cadman's response is just what I would expect from a sociopath with no capacity

for human emotion.

Nothing new there - he's a Republican.


Mr. Sullivan is a better man than I am - I'd have grabbed his skinny neck and choked his goozle if I was as close to him and got that treatment.

[abq e streeter]

3. Couldn't have said it better....+1

[patrice]

9. goozle? That anything like a gizzard? ;-)

[7962]

2. Idiot. He couldve at LEAST said "im sorry for your loss" EOM

[calimary]

10. Welcome to DU, 7962!

Glad you're here! Amazing how the other side seems to abhor compassion. What does that tell you about them, in general, then? Hopefully enough to get his microbe-sized heart bounced out of office in the next election. Cadman. Hmmmm... He's aptly named. WHY do voters vote for cads like him?

[Skittles]

4. GUN HUMPERS ARE COWARDS

YES INDEED

[gvstn]

5. These two certainly are

"Coward" was my immediate response.

[LongTomH]

14. Mine too! This was cowardice as well as rudeness and insensitivity!!!!!

[Zoeisright]

6. Not surprising. Fucking repukes

are bloodthirsty little asshole cowards.

[salin]

7. Lesson in comparative pains... and the state rep loses.

Constituent's pain = losing a son.

State rep's pain = uncomfortable moment (that he will forget shortly).

No contest.

But one wouldn't know that from the state rep.s empathetic-less response as if he was the righteously aggrieved party. Disgusting.

[patrice]

8. And yet some try to tell you your mistaken if you think Sullivan family's experience IS what this

issue is about.

[MotherPetrie]

11. Another sickening example of gun love

[tblue]

12. I think the survivors and loved ones

should be the ones who craft our gun laws, rather than people who have no idea what it's like to lose a loved one this way.

Instead stalling after every massacre because 'now is not the time' to look at gun rights, I think we should make those laws right while we are fully conscious of the emotional, physical, societal, and economic damage gun violence causes. Enough brushing people aside. We want to live in a safer society not a cowboy movie.

Think we should wait until people forget about Bangladesh before contemplating workplace safety standards there? That would make no sense.

[sodom]

15. are you insane?

So you are not in favor of any form of representational democracy? You would have reason take a back seat to emotion? Critical and rational thought be damned.

If we had victims of terrorist attacks construct foreign policy, how do you think that would follow?

Do you even understand what you are suggesting?

[mbperrin]

17. Why do you think of insanity?

Clearly believes in representational democracy, just wants people with real experience to write or craft the laws - they'll still have to be passed.

And calling for people to look at the whole picture is hardly insane, in fact, telling people to NOT look at the whole picture is self-serving at least, insane at worst.

And as far as terrorist policy goes, if the actual victims were to construct foreign policy, they probably would not have sent Colin Powell to lie his ass off, nor attacked Iraq and Afghanistan, who had nothing to do with 9/11, but instead, may have followed the Saudi and Pakistani leads instead. Insane? No, what was done was insane. Real victims want to get the real perps.

So perhaps ratchet is back a little before calling someone out, and maybe take a moment to actually understand what they wrote.

[tblue]

18. Oh mbperrin

I wasn't taking in absolutes. I was trying to counter the idjits bullying and
belittling the people who've been most injured by gun violence. I think the survivors should have more of a say than people who shout them down.

You made some EXCELLENT points! Much better than I did. I think of New Yorkers after 9/11. They wanted to bring the plotters to justice and rebuild at the site to show their resilience. I think they should've had that.

[abbeyco]

13. Cadman is a known d-bag

I posted this earlier this week after it happened and here's bonus contact info if you'd like to comment on his evilness.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022846526

Email: [e-mail]
Phone: [phone]

[angka]

19. I encourage everyone

To leave him a message explaining what they think of his treatment of Tom Sullivan.

[alcibiades_mystery]

16. Gunners are assholes. Gunner representatives are assholes. None of this surprises anyone

These people are garbage.