Posted on 07/25/2010 7:01:52 PM PDT by JRochelle
Insurgent Colorado Senate candidate Ken Buck is apologizing for a degrading remark he made about the Tea Party movement last month that was caught on tape by a Democratic tracker.
The Denver Post and 9News is expected to report Sunday night that Buck referred to the members of the Tea Party as "dumbasses" after a campaign event in Crowley, Colo. last month.
"Will you tell those dumbasses at the Tea Party to stop asking about birth certificates? Woah, I'm on camera. God, what am I supposed to do?," Buck says on the tape, according to his campaign.
Buck campaign spokesman Owen Loftus told POLITICO that the candidate spent Sunday explaining and apologizing for the remark in interviews with the state's two dominant news outlets.
"Ken points out he does gets frustrated at times with those individuals pushing those issues. He shouldn't have cussed. He regrets the remark. He was venting his frustration to a Democratic tracker and he shouldn't of," said Loftus.
Loftus said that Buck, whose candidacy has been fueled in part by Tea Party members uninspired by one-time GOP frontrunner Jane Norton, was aware he was speaking to a Democratic tracker and simply made a mistake. The birther issue has been a tricky one for Buck to navigate: While he signaled he would support legislation to ensure a presidential candidate has U.S. citizenship at a meet-and-greet in June, he has also stressed it is not a priority for his campaign.
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Say hello to Senator Norton.
OK CANDIDATES ONE MORE TIME: ALL MICROPHONES ARE LIVE!
Nuff said.
Unlike the left’s rent-a-mobs, the Tea Party actually represents live bodies who will vote in numbers. Probably not a good idea to tick them off.
The real Ken Buck came out of the closet. I’m glad you exposed yourself.
A dumbass makes a dumbass remark and now wants to backpedal...heh heh
...and they are everywhere!
ROTFLMAO. For some reason that hit the old funny bone.
I live in Colorado ... Norton is going to kick Buck’s ass.
Good to hear!!!
WTB! What the Buck?
What is a ‘Democratic tracker’?
Keep in mind this is Politico of journolist...
So much for being the Anti-McCain, Anti-establishment candidate.
Yeah, I don’t even want to go there because it just makes me angry to hear inaccurate so-called “reports”. None of the media will ever correct their inaccurate statements, much less report the whole story.
I just don’t even want to hear what they have to say because it’s so frustrating.
The Dems are desperate to have another ‘mccacca’ moment.
They have trackers out on all the Republican candidates. And Buck said this to the tracker, knowing full well who he was and what would happen.
The tracker was most likely saving this in case Buck won the primary. LOL. Another tracker foiled!
Does the “O” in PoliticO stand for the same thing the “O” in JournOlist does???
What Buck said was the truth, and he shouldn't have apologized. Some of the people in the Tea Party are making an ass out of the movement by worrying about Zero's birth certificate.
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