During the June 14 broadcast of his 630 KHOW-AM show, Peter Boyles smeared John Parvensky, president of the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless (CCH) and winner of a Ford Foundation leadership award, by calling him “one of the butt boys” for homelessness prevention. Moreover, Boyles and frequent guest Bob Cote baselessly claimed that the methodology of a study on homelessness that was featured in articles in The Denver Post and the Rocky Mountain News was not “sound[].”

It was the second recent instance in which Boyles had used the term as a way of disparaging someone. As Colorado Media Matters noted, Boyles on his May 1 broadcast railed against people who support comprehensive immigration reform, denouncing them as “butt boys and bendovers for just about anything and everything that illegals ... and the people who carry their water want.”

On June 14, Boyles acknowledged that “I can't do math” but claimed that he “know[s] enough to look at how a research model works.” He then baselessly asserted that the study of Colorado's homeless population, conducted by University of Colorado at Denver in collaboration with area service agencies, had “no soundness.” Using as evidence the fact that media reports about the study used the formal name of the director of Denver's Road Home, Deborah Ortega, instead of her informal name (Debbie), Boyles declared the study “a clown show” but provided no facts to support his assertion that the study had “no soundness.” Then, noting that a June 14 Post article about the study quoted Parvensky as saying, “It's troubling” that almost three-quarters of the first-time homeless in Colorado are families with children, Boyles called the community leader “one of the butt boys” for homelessness prevention:

From the June 14 broadcast of 630 KHOW-AM's The Peter Boyles Show:

BOYLES: First of all, the methodology of the study. If I took this methodology into grad school with my, for a thesis --

COTE: Good luck.

BOYLES: -- they'd cha -- they'd chase me out the door.

COTE: That's right.

BOYLES: All right. There's no, there's no soundness, as they used to say. And I -- believe me, I can't do math. I studied stastis -- statistics, and I'm no, I don't claim to be either one of those things, but I know enough to look at how a research model works and --

COTE: What would you call this?

BOYLES: Oh, well, this is a clown show. But you can see it by Deborah Ortega, instead of Debbie Ortega, now she's Deborah.

COTE: Yeah, it's like The Road Home.

BOYLES: That's right, “executive director of Denver's Commission to End Homelessness. 'Our plan is working and we're pleased.' Denver's homeless population -- 3,954” -- that's like countin' ducks -- “dropped by 11 percent for the second year, and chronic homelessness in the city dipped 24 percent.” How do they weigh and measure that?

COTE: They don't. Here's the key paragraph: “The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development required a January 29 count to help distribute nearly 15 million for housing and shelter assistance in Colorado.” So, they go by count. Again, it's the old figures equals funding.

BOYLES: “The number of first-time homeless jumped 56 percent.”

COTE: How can you figure that?

BOYLES: I don't know.

COTE: “How many times have you been homeless, John?”

BOYLES: I don't know.

COTE: “Oh I just, this is my first time.” He's been out there 10 years, you know. If their lips move at all they're lying to ya. “I'm laid off from Martin Marietta. I was a rocket science. They cut pas --”

BOYLES: How about this? Three-quarters are the -- are families with children.

COTE: Always and always. It always will be.

BOYLES: And John Parvenski -- your close personal friend -- one of the butt boys for this, says, “It's troubling.”

COTE: Troubling. Yeah, we know what's troubling -- what they're up to. We ought to change that The Road Home the Road to Denver, because apparently that's how people are reading it. And you know what people I mean.

In 2002 Parvensky was honored with the Ford Foundation's Leadership for a Changing World award. The foundation noted that under Parvensky, CCH “created a multicounty initiative with a pioneering rental-assistance approach in transitional housing that has dramatically improved services for Colorado's homeless families. [CCH] has also developed more than 500 affordable housing units and another 281 units are under construction. At the national level, Parvensky has worked with service providers for the homeless from around the country to persuade the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to address substance abuse among the homeless.” As his CCH biography notes, Parvensky has served as president and CEO of the agency since 1985:

Currently he is a member of Denver's Commission To End Homelessness and on the Board of Directors of the Metro Denver Homeless Initiative. He is also Vice President of the National Coalition for the Homeless and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Healthcare for the Homeless Council.