Tag: Marilyn Musgrave

There wasn't much disagreement during the second debate between Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave and her Democratic challenger Betsy Markey in Fort Morgan on Monday night.

A national group that registered tens of thousands of new voters in Colorado is under fire in several states for using fake names to sign up voters. The Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) has been charged with dropping off at least 10,000 invalid voter applications in a dozen states, according to news reports. But ACORN officials say that GOP operatives — and John McCain in specific — are fanning nonexistent flames. And while the group's Colorado operations are in the clear, it was mischaracterized as "under investigation today" by Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave during a debate last week with Democratic challenger Betsy Markey.

With Betsy Markey and Marilyn Musgrave set to butt heads — or at least exchange words — at tonight’s Fourth Congressional District debate in Fort Morgan, one of the mysteries of last week's debate has been solved.

FORT COLLINS - There was no clear winner. No knock-out punch or defining moment. In fact, it was a surprisingly cordial affair for two campaigns that have been in attack mode for weeks. The gloves were never off long during the first debate between Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave and Democrat challenger Betsy Markey on the campus of Colorado State University Thursday night, as the two spent an hour showing voters their softer sides while carefully jabbing the other's character. It was a political waltz of delicate measure.

It's been a long time coming, but the two candidates running for the 4th Congressional District will meet face to face tonight in what will be their first of three debates. Easy money says it won't be long before the two take the gloves off. It has been, after all, one long negative race.

As Weld County goes, so goes the purple state of Colorado. The New York Times has some interesting video reporting up today that shows Greeley as the poster child of Colorado's new status as a swing state. Although the traveling Times video crew doesn't report much beyond anecdotal interviews with residents, their choice of Greeley as a bell-weather county in Colorado isn't too far off.

A radio advertisement against Rep. Marilyn Musgrave being run by the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund was pulled off the air briefly Thursday by Clear Channel Communications after questions over accuracy in the attack were raised. The DOWAF modified the ad slightly in response and the ad has subsequently been reinstated on Clear Channel stations.

Colorado Democrats Mark Udall and John Salazar and Republicans Marilyn Musgrave and Doug Lamborn stuck with their opposition to a massive $700 billion emergency plan to rescue the nation's troubled financial credit markets on Friday morning, but House leaders corralled enough votes to pass the bailout 263-171.

LOVELAND - When Democrat Betsy Markey booked a town hall meeting in Loveland Wednesday to talk about the economic bailout, er, rescue plan, she probably expected to say more than the couple of sentences she was able to squeeze in, between a barrage of questions and comments from a group of about 50 people talking about the worries, fear and anger they have over America's troubled economy and the credit crisis that caused it.

Criminal complaints. Accusations of lying and public smears. Nasty TV and radio attack ads. It's election season in Colorado's 4th Congressional District, and this year's race -- much like those of the past -- has not proven healthy for the faint of heart. But this year's race between three-term incumbent Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave and Democrat Betsy Markey has a new dimension: Despite voter registration numbers that favor Republicans by 13 percent, recent polls indicated Markey, a never-before-elected former Senate staffer, stands a clear chance of yanking Musgrave's seat out from under her.