Wolf drops GOP Senate bid ( Coloradoan goes for Congress instead )

Rocky Mountain News ^ | December 6, 2007 | Lynn Bartels

[george76]

Former Delta County commissioner to try to unseat Salazar for House seat instead.

Delta County Commissioner Wayne Wolf has dropped his longshot bid to become a U.S. senator and now is seeking the Republican nomination in the 3rd Congressional District.

Wolf said his decision to try to defeat U.S. Rep. John Salazar, D-Manassa, has received "plenty of support" on the Western Slope and in southern Colorado.

That's a much different response than he received this fall when he said he intended to challenge Bob Schaffer for the Republican nomination to the U.S. Senate.

Dick Wadhams, chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, dismissed Wolf's candidacy, saying the amount of money Schaffer had raised and the campaign he had built made him the "de facto nominee."

Wolf, a fifth-generation Coloradan who lives on a ranch near Cedaredge...

Salazar is siding with "fringe" environmentalists and is taking too much campaign money from unions.

[colorado tanker]

I’ve heard about some of the divisions in the 5th. The main difference IMHO, is the 5th is so heavily Republican we’re likely to hold it despite the divisions.

[Uri’el-2012]

The 5th is so heavily Republican we’re likely to hold it despite the divisions.

True.

OBTW Chaffee county got 12" of Champagne powder over night.

Still snowing.

[colorado tanker]

Winter’s finally here! Just in time for the holidays, too.

[Kuksool]

For Nov 2008, CO has a voter initative about personhood for the unborn. I wonder how it will impact the Nov 2008 elections.