Tag: U.S. Senate Race

A campaign finance watchdog group unleashed a brutal attack on Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer on Tuesday, charging the former congressman with defending sweatshop operators at the behest of lobbyist Jack Abramoff in an ad set to air on Denver television stations. Campaign Money Watch also called on Schaffer to provide evidence for repeated claims he caused a sweatshop to shut down after his junket to the U.S. protectorate in the South Pacific.

Apparently Republican U.S. Senate candidate and former oil-and-gas executive Bob Schaffer didn’t get the party-line memo on Amendment 52 before Monday night’s debate with his Democratic opponent, Congressman Mark Udall.

Rep. Mark Udall, stumping in Edwards Sunday, came as close as he’ll likely ever come to saying “I told you so,” comparing his two "no" votes last week on the financial bailout package to his dissent on the Iraq War and the Patriot Act.

There was maybe one good thing to come from an otherwise embarrassing display on national television by the two candidates running for one of the most hotly contested U.S. Senate races in the country: Bob Schaffer has found something new besides gas prices to blame Mark Udall for: the crash of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

When Republican Bob Schaffer accepted the state GOP nomination to run for U.S. Senate on May 31, the price of a gallon of gasoline in Colorado had shot up to just below $4. In his entire 17-minute acceptance speech, Schaffer, an oil-and-gas executive for the past several years, had nothing to say about soaring gas prices.

The Colorado Independent's chief political reporter, Jason Kosena, joined political consultant Eric Sonderman and Westword media critic Michael Roberts to discuss the the current crop of political ads on KBDI's Studio 12, the hour-long public affairs roundtable and call-in show, Wednesday night.

On Wednesday one of the nation's most influential union federations announced plans on to send mailings to thousands of households across the state, characterizing Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Bob Schaffer as caring only about “Big Oil.”

GOP Senate candidate Bob Schaffer Monday told a largely partisan group of about 25 Eagle County Republicans that he doesn’t believe in comprehensive immigration...

Well-known Republican operatives in Denver are behind a shadowy 501c(4) group called Coloradans for Economic Growth that launched a $670,562 negative ad blitz against...

Salon recently gathered a bunch of big brains to talk about how Democrats may expand their majority in the U.S. Senate by half a...