Ashby: A ‘weird’ watch party for Jeff Hurd and the media

The Daily Sentinel: In all my nearly 50 years in journalism, about half of which was in covering politics in Colorado, I’ve never heard of what happened during U.S. Rep.-elect Jeff Hurd’s election night watch party occurring anywhere else.

While it’s not uncommon to corral the media at political events, or even bar them from entry, what Hurd’s campaign did to the print, radio and television press at The Warehouse 25Sixty-five Kitchen & Bar on Tuesday night was unprecedented

I wasn’t at that event, we had another reporter manning that assignment, but I’ve attended many such election night events at that and other locations. This time, however, the Hurd campaign sequestered the media in a curtained area away from everyone, but then required any of them to be escorted by a Hurd staffer if they attempted to go anywhere in the establishment, including to the bathroom.

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