Colorado’s Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck has joined the national campaign to support Wisconsin Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark Neumann. In a Monday email blast (pdf), Buck stressed that control of the Senate could well turn on this single race. That’s the same thing analysts said about the race Ken Buck lost in 2010 to Michael Bennet in Colorado.
Is it really time to line up for Colorado’s next senate race? Senator Mark Udall will be up for re-election in 2014, assuming he runs again. Friday, U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte, R-NH, sent out a fundraising letter on behalf of herself and Colorado’s own Jane Norton.
The Colorado Statesman this week published a massive interview with Colorado GOP Chair Dick Wadhams. The reading is good but, for the most part, the information he relates is not that new.
It’s a good read, and the…
Republican U.S. Senate nominee Ken Buck’s decision not to prosecute a rape case five years ago angers women still, more because of his dismissive attitude toward the victim than for the decision itself.
Campaign for a Strong Colorado, a coalition of progressive political groups in the state, is calling on U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck to release a document drafted by an attorney for his campaign defending him against a campaign finance complaint. The complaint (pdf), written by Charles Grice, has been public since it was filed with the Federal Election Commission in May. It has been the subject of discussion in the political blogosphere, on talk radio shows and in the mainstream press, but Buck has played down the charges leveled by Grice and Buck’s campaign denied requests by the Colorado Independent this month to make its defense public.
Fox 21 reported Monday that Ken Buck held a “U.S. Senate unity rally” Monday night in Colorado Springs. But Buck spokesman Owen Loftus told me Thursday that Buck’s stop in Colorado Springs was a normal campaign rally, not a GOP…
On Primary Day two weeks ago, Weld County D.A. Ken Buck had just defeated former Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton to win the GOP nomination to face Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet in the general election. Buck campaign consultant Walt Klein gave a short speech to the crowd at the victory party in Loveland and then climbed down from the stage onto the floor, smiling and shaking hands. Klein has been working Colorado Republican electoral politics for thirty years and was basking in the hard-fought success of this latest campaign. “How many Nortons is that now?” asked the Colorado Independent. Klein’s smile turned into a grin and he shot three fingers into the air.
A new post-primary Rasmussen survey of likely Colorado voters puts GOP U.S. Senate candidate Ken Buck ahead of Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet, 46 percent to 41 percent. The results almost exactly mirror the results of Rasmussen surveys conducted at…
House District 56 state Rep. Christine Scanlan, D-Dillon, mentioned by some observers as a possible Colorado Speaker of the House candidate if she survives a tea party challenge in November, doesn’t put much stock in Tuesday’s primary election results…
The victory of political novice Dan Maes in the Colorado Republican gubernatorial primary last night likely drove a stake in any unofficial state GOP plan to ask U.S. Senate primary loser Jane Norton to run for governor.
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