Posted on 09/15/2009 1:59:18 PM PDT by Clintonfatigued
Jane Norton is now officially a Republican candidate for Colorado's 2010 U.S. Senate race, in which Democratic incumbent Michael Bennet is defending the seat to which he was appointed in January.
"I'm running for the United States Senate for one simple reason: the federal government is out of control," Norton said in a video posted on her campaign Web site.
Norton, who was elected in 2002 to a four-year term as Colorado's lieutenant governor, planned formal announcement stops Tuesday in Denver, Colorado Springs and Grand Junction.
She will run as an opponent of the economic stimulus law enacted in February and a climate change bill -- passed by the House in June and awaiting Senate action -- that includes a "cap and trade" plan to limit industrial emissions that most Republicans oppose.
Norton described health care policies proposed by President Obama and the Democratic-run Congress as a "government takeover of almost 17 percent of our economy through so-called health care reform."
"These all together ensure that we are going to mortgage our children's future unless ordinary people step up to say, 'I'm going to be involved.' And that's why I'm running," Norton said.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.cqpolitics.com ...
I like what I’m hearing here. Who else is in the race?
I suppose this is a good development, as Norton has decent name I.D. against a little-known incumbent who faces a difficult primary. However, I don’t know much about her. I don’t think she’s a RINO, but how conservative she is remains a mystery.
“Who else is in the race?”
Weld County DA Ken Buck and Aurora Councilman Ryan Frazier.
I'm a bit miffed that Tommy T publicly criticized her yesterday on no specific grounds. He seems to want to make sure we're as divided as the Democrats.
Sorry but who is Tommy T?
From her speech announcing her candidacy:
“And so these are the principles I’ll fight for when it comes to health care reform:
We need to reduce the cost of health insurance by promoting choice and
competition.
We need to provide tax equity so that people who buy their own insurance
receive the same tax benefits as those who get insurance through their employers.
We need real tort reform that limits expensive and frivolous lawsuits that drive up costs.
And we need to tell President Obama and Senate Democrats that cutting
Medicare for seniors as a way to pay for healthcare reform is immoral and wrong. And as the daughter of two Medicare recipients, I will not allow this to happen.
And that is why I look forward to taking our fight directly to the floor of the U.S. Senate with positive, forward-looking, Colorado values.
I am pro-small business and entrepreneurship…
pro-marriage…
pro-life…
pro-conservation…
pro-individual…
and pro-Colorado.
This campaign is about you, your children, and your grandchildren. It’s about the future of Colorado and of America. It’s about ensuring that our children and grandchildren inherit an America that is strong, prosperous and free.
I’m asking for your support and for your vote. We’re grateful for the support we’re receiving from Coloradans from across the state, and from all walks of life.
So, I’m asking you to join our cause. Mobilize your digital army through Facebook, Twitter, and by signing up on our campaign website at: janenortonforcolorado.com
Now is the time and this is the place.
It’s time to get moving!
It’s time to fight!
It’s time to win!
It’s time to bring Colorado values back to the United States Senate.
God bless you. And God bless America.”
He seems to want to make sure that it's all about him ... as usual.
I have to admit that I, too, know little about her. Part of my concerns about her related to the taint of being Bill Owens’s running mate, and we saw the disaster he was.
These expensive ( money and otherwise ) primaries are killing us.
She should have run for Governor when Owens was term limited.
No Republican was going to win in ‘06 to succeed Owens.
Go Jane go!
Could be good -—that wesyern slope has some straight thinking folks
Would any of these people really secure the borders? We have been lied to so much.
You should never underestimate Mr. Tancredo's capacity for self-promotion. It is and always has been all about him.
Ms. Norton's idea is actually a good one.
Tancredo also supported a guest-worker program.
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