First, he filed to run for Colorado’s Republican U.S. Senate nomination in January 2013.
Four months later, he filed to run for the GOP gubernatorial nomination, spending $11,648 of his own money on consulting and web services. Less than a month after that, he returned $238,352 he’d loaned to his campaign and shut it down after Tom Tancredo entered the race.
Then on March 3, Steve Laffey of Fort Collins filed to run for the 4th Congressional nomination. That was just days after Cory Gardner announced he’d vacate his 4th CD seat to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Udall.
When Gardner entered the Senate race, 2010 Senate candidate and Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck switched to the 4th CD race.
The well-known Buck and little-known Laffey are hardly alone in their desire to represent the safe GOP district on Colorado’s eastern Plains
Weld County Commissioner Barbara Kirkmeyer filed to run this week. State Sen. Scott Renfroe filed last week. Gardner endorsed Buck on Thursday.
Republican delegates from the 4th CD will nominate primary candidates for the June 24 ballot at an assembly on April 11 in Broomfield.
Laffey’s campaign (or is that campaigns?) isn’t getting much mention in the media. And with three fairly well-known competitors, he’ll likely have a challenge getting onto the ballot. On his website, Laffey promotes an affiliation with the liberty movement:
“I’m not going to sit here and let them do this to us any longer. No more debt that crushes our kids’ future. No more Communist China taking our jobs. No more stealing our property rights. No more forcing us to buy health insurance. No more taking our guns. No more brainwashing our children. Leave us alone!”
His site makes no mention of the various races he’s entered.
Laffey moved to Colorado from Rhode Island, where he was mayor of Cranston, a city of 80,000 people. In 2006, he ran against incumbent U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee, and won almost 46 percent of the primary vote. Chafee ended up losing that race to Democrat Sheldon Whitehouse. Chafee is now governor of Rhode Island after winning as an independent in 2010.
Colorado will get a big bang for its buck with Steve Laffey. He has a huge heart for America and cannot bear to see what Washington politicians are doing to the future of our country and opportunities for our children. Steve wants to fix things for his children and ours. I know Steve will work harder than anyone in congress. He will not fall victim to the spell of Washington that captures every single elected official who enters the District. He will work hard for every Coloradan and above all he will fight for solutions that work for our children’s and for the future of our country.
Who do you recommend in the governors race?
Yeah, He’s Running….And Hiding.
From This:
steve laffey is a criminal who ran and hid from rhode island after having rigged a 2002 election in cranston. he did this by granting local police and firefighter their pensions and safety complexes in exchange for their eliminating the competition by filing false police reports and medical diagnosis through family and friends. It should have been apparent to all as to what he was doing, as this is the same way laffey eliminated his own brothers who he felt jealous of and threatened for attention by. he is a criminal and if the state of Colorado has any sense, they’d lock him in an institution or ship him back to rhode island so he could be the “financial expert” of his cell block in prison where he belongs.