Tag: Marilyn Musgrave

Colorado's congressional delegation split along unusual lines Monday, voting 4-3 against a proposed $700 billion emergency plan to bail out the nation's troubled financial institutions. The House of Representatives rejected the bill 228-205, sending markets into a panic and ending the day with the largest dollar loss in Wall Street history.

In a negative race that just won't quit, Rep. Marilyn Musgrave filed a complaint with the Larimer County District Attorney last week alleging her Democratic opponent Betsy Markey knowingly made false statements about her in a recent television advertisement. In Musgrave's complaint, the three-term Republican from Fort Morgan said Markey's recent television ad that claimed Musgrave made votes to allow lobbyists to "wine and dine" her and sponsored legislation to reduce capital gains taxes on precious metals which would have directly benefited her Musgrave's husband Steve.

The mud just keeps getting thicker in Colorado's 4th Congressional District. The campaign of Democrat Betsy Markey filed a complaint with the Larimer County District Attorney's office on Sept. 17 over what Markey claims are knowingly false television advertisements aired by her political opponent Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave. Under Colorado law, it is illegal to knowingly make false statements about an opponent in a political campaign. If the Larimer County District Attorney Larry Abrahamson accepts the complaint it will be forwarded to a six-member, bipartisan commission established by the Colorado District Attorney who will investigate what wrong-doing, if any, occurred.

Bring out the shovels, it's going to take a lot of digging to get out of this mud. The campaigns of Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave and her challenger Democrat Betsy Markey both released television ads Tuesday that are highly critical of one another. Musgrave's ad calls Markey corrupt while Markey's ad calls Musgrave a liar.

Going negative against political opponents is second nature to Republican U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave.

I know Marilyn Musgrave loves nicknames. Back in 2002 she started calling the candidate I worked for Stan “Taxunaka.” Now she’s calling Betsy Markey “Millionaire Markey.” Hmm. Politically speaking, negative nicknames work when they actually relate to something, but this one’s kinda out of left field.

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It's been a busy week for computer hackers. A team of system crackers identifying themselves as "Group XP" have taken control of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani's Web site. The compromised home page features a YouTube video of comedian Bill Maher satirizing the powerful Iraqi Shi'a cleric and influential post-invasion political leader.

A computer prankster took Marilyn Musgrave's campaign site offline Tuesday afternoon and then posted his exploits on the Colorado Pols blog.

Sen. Ken Salazar on Saturday called for an investigation into a new Marilyn Musgrave TV ad, terming the ad's claims "absolutely false in every way." Rep. Musgrave's opponent, Democrat Betsy Markey, also called on the 4th District Republican to "immediately stop airing" the ad, which attacks Markey with claims she enriched herself with "non-competitive Halliburton-style contracts" and "used her congressional job to double her company's contracts."

Fanning the flames in an unusually competitve 4th District challenge to three-term Rep. Marilyn Musgrave, Democrat Betsy Markey announced Wednesday morning she will begin running a second TV ad this week.