Hefley risks GOP hold on Colorado seat

THE WASHINGTON TIMES ^ | October 15, 2006 | Valerie Richardson

[george76]

Republican state Sen. Doug Lamborn's fiercest opponent in the 5th District race isn't his Democratic foe. It's the Republican he's trying to succeed -- 10-term Rep. Joel Hefley.

Mr. Lamborn is running neck and neck with Democrat Jay Fawcett ...

Shortly after Mr. Lamborn won a six-candidate primary on Aug. 8, Mr. Hefley, who is retiring, said he would refuse to endorse the Republican candidate, pointing to what he described as his "sleazy, dishonest campaign."

That stinging rebuke, coming from the highly regarded Mr. Hefley, delivered a devastating blow to Mr. Lamborn's candidacy. Several other prominent Republicans soon joined Mr. Hefley in refusing to endorse Mr. Lamborn, pointing to ads and mailings they say unfairly demonized his Republican foes.

One flier, sent out by the local Christian Coalition, accused fellow Republican Jeff Crank of supporting "the radical homosexual agenda."

Radio and television ads produced by the Club for Growth accused Mr. Crank, who was Mr. Lamborn's chief rival for the nomination, of supporting tax increases.

Mr. Lamborn has insisted he had no control over the content of the disputed materials because they were put out by independent political committees, not his campaign.

"Unfortunately, Mr. Hefley is not revealing that the ads he disagreed with were run by third-party groups that I had nothing to do with," Mr. Lamborn said Friday.

Meanwhile, Mr. Fawcett has taken full advantage of the internecine squabble, running newspaper ads last week listing state Republican leaders under the headline, "None of These Republicans Will Endorse Doug Lamborn for Congress."

Mr. Hefley responded Friday with a statement stressing that he would not support Mr. Fawcett, either, but repeating his earlier remarks about Mr. Lamborn.

"I do not endorse liberal Democrats, and I regard Jay Fawcett as a liberal Democrat,"

[Ben Ficklin]

Try a key word search of "Safe Districts" which is code for gerrymandering

[Uri’el-2012]

You Republicians in Texas understand gerrymandering.

considering it is all flat land.

[dogbyte12]

When it comes to speaking ill of republicans, it looks like it is going to be hard to top the Christian Coalition and Club for Growth.

That is the thing. He is being asked to follow the 11th commandment now after sleaze attacks on the other Republicans in the race. Lamborn should denounce the attacks vigorously and ask the other prominent Republicans to join him in unity against the lib dem. If somebody accused me of some wild stuff it would really be hard to play nice afterwards without a serious apology.

[Ben Ficklin]

Unfair. If you are going to use the graphics from Wiki, then you should use the entire article.

BTW, that is a democratic district that the GOP created. It was designed to make a white dem incumbent, who was safe in his Austin centered district, have to compete with a hispanic challenger from the heavily hispanic and democratic Rio Grande valley

[Galactic Overlord-In-Chief]

While CO has had somewhat of a liberal streak (Gary Hart, Gov Lamm, Pat Schroeder) CO was one of only a 2-3 states where GW Bush did worse in 2004 than in 2000 (GW Bush got 52% in 2004 and 51% in 2000, so his % went up but CO was 4 point more GOP than the national vote in 2000, while in 2004 it was only 1 point more GOP)

If you're talking worse in terms of Bush's margin, it really wasn't all that different from 2000. True, Gore got only 42%, but Nader got 5%. In 2004, Nader's share sank all the way to 0.60%. Kerry's 47% just merged the preexisting liberal vote from last time.

[george76]

[Ben Ficklin]

He should have done that during the primary.

[potlatch]

[george76]

LOL.

You out did your own self.

Beautiful.

[potlatch]

No..I am not THAT good yet. That is a 'found' gif and very cute.

[devolve]

Good post -


There's one of a woman banging her head on her PC I think -

[potlatch]

I have quite a few of them, even made a whole folder for computer things..

[devolve]

Out of 7500?

[george76]

You have more.

Can you pick another good one.

8-)

[Lancey Howard]

Screw Hefley, the crybaby scumbag.

[potlatch]

7500 and growing, lol. My computer memory is only half filled up and I have tons of music as you know.

Hunting for a laptop with mega memory for when I travel now.

[Prost1]

There it is...Hefley risk Colorado...

Might as well stay home and not vote in my California District - Mike Honda will win just because he has a "D".

No one knows who Mike Honda is, but he will be reelected.
No one knows what Mike Honda has done, but he will be reelected.
No one knows what Mike Honda looks like, but he will be reelected.

Mike Honda - the people's choice!

Yeah, right. Just like SJ Mayor Ron Gonzales.

[potlatch]

[devolve]

Good stuff!

[Uri’el-2012]

Unfair. If you are going to use the graphics from Wiki, then you should use the entire article.

click on the picture