Letter to Denver Post
September 18, 2022

Kafer calls out local overreach but was it a false equivalency?

Re: “Leave virtue signaling to signs, not canceled PrideFest or gun shows,” Sept. 11 commentary The recent article by columnist Krista Kafer addresses a bigger concern than many people realize. Frankly, I often disagree with her conservative viewpoints, but not this time. Her position challenging the overreach of local government is magnified under the light of constitutional issues like those she addressed and many others. It seems constitutional rights are often subordinated to political beliefs by both parties at all levels of government.

Conservatives and libertarians certainly have no problem telling people what lawful groups they are allowed to join. Then too often many “progressives” follow that lead. The two-party system seems to be neutered under the status quo of corporate control, policial preservation and every definition of local control imaginable.

Lastly, I also believe an even bigger public policy concern is government secrecy. The domain of public opinion is often molded by information we never receive.

Tim Allport, Arvada

I took Krista Kafer’s advice on virtue signaling and put a sign in my yard . . . Now I have a virtue fine from the HOA.

Jeff Dorrell, Denver BBB

Krista Kafer is truly the queen of false equivalence. Her latest effort at scolding both liberals and conservatives involves virtue signaling.

As usual her approach is to find some minor issue where she can gently slap the wrist of some misbehaving conservative, in this case county commissioner George Teal and his foolish effort to ban PrideFest in DougCo. She then proceeds to bash Denver and Boulder for their efforts to cope with the very serious epidemic of gun violence.

Kafer is sadly correct that these efforts are likely doomed to failure, for many reasons, but at least these elected officials are trying to solve a real problem. Every year dozens of people in Denver and Boulder are victims of gun violence, while I suspect no one (not even delicate snowflake George Teal) has ever been harmed by a drag queen’s fake teat.

If Kafer and her fellow conservatives could offer any meaningful alternatives to help combat gun violence then perhaps her criticism of Denver and Boulder might be more insightful, but instead it’s just more false equivalence.

David Myers, Littleton