Tag: Dick Wadhams

Republican Aurora City Councilman Ryan Frazier this evening told the Colorado Independent he is hopeful for a win over incumbent Democratic Congressman Ed Perlmutter...

Republicans expect this year's Tea Party enthusiasm to translate to enormous victories for the GOP tonight. Yet evidence on the ground seems to be confirming what some political analysts have been saying for a while: that Tea Party enthusiasm is no substitute for well-organized political movement infrastructure. The fact that the U.S. Senate race in Colorado pitting Tea Party GOP candidate Ken Buck against unloved Democrat Michael Bennet is so close down the stretch speaks volumes, according to longtime Republican Party strategist Ford O'Connell.

The Colorado Republican Party's effort to win back top seats has been characterized nationally as a "gaffapalooza” and a "farce," with many analysts pointing fingers at state GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams. Observers on the ground in Colorado, including GOP staffers and candidates, say that in the year of the Tea Party, Wadhams simply failed to properly vet candidates. The top-of-the-ticket false starts and shuffling have drawn plenty of attention and spawned mockery but the farce grows dark at the bottom of the ticket, where GOP candidates with criminal histories of violence and abuse dot the ballot.

Whether Republicans like it or not, Dan Maes is their nominee for governor. Whether they like him or not, most GOP county chairs in Colorado say they support Maes. The Colorado Independent called all 64 county GOP chairs, spoke with 28, and left messages for most of the rest.

The Republican Party calls itself a big tent. In Colorado, every square inch of tattered canvas is needed. Even then, there seem to be a few people who feel like they’ve been left out in the rain. The Colorado Independent last week called all 64 county GOP chairs in Colorado. A lot of them are not happy. At least as it relates the governor’s race; most of those we talked to think the train has run off the tracks.

Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele on Monday said that Arizona’s stringent immigration law, SB-1070, is not representative of the Republican Party’s views as a whole, nor of the American view as a whole. Colorado Republican candidate for governor Dan Maes has said he would support a law similar to Arizona’s if he is elected.

Editor Jody Strogoff at the Colorado Statesman rolls out some gems in her column this week, including an insider look into the back-channel conversations...

While attempts by the Colorado Republican Party and American Constitution Party gubernatorial candidate Tom Tancredo to get Republican Dan Maes to drop out of the race...

The victory of political novice Dan Maes in the Colorado Republican gubernatorial primary last night likely drove a stake in any unofficial state GOP...

LOVELAND - Republican U.S. Senate candidate and Weld County District Attorney Ken Buck celebrated his primary win Tuesday night over Jane Norton as a victory for true conservative principles and the willingness to stand up for them against an unresponsive Washington culture of excess.