I've lived in Colorado Springs for over a quarter century and remember going door to door for Reagan in 1976, 1980 and 1984! While Colorado Springs isn't quite as conservative a town as it was back in the 70`s and 80`s, it's still very conservative. El Paso County Colorado, is also very conservative.
The Colorado Springs Independent, is a liberal newspaper, that is handed out free. They could never make it sell, hence the no charge. There is absolutely nothing conservative about the Independent.
And finally, my Representative, conservative Republican Joel Hefley, will beat the pants off this libertarian Biff Baker.
Allard, from what my sources inside the MDA tell me about the incessant (and incessantly false) claims of fraud, waste, and abuse by those who came out on the losing end of various prime/sub relationships, and my own experience with same. It's gotten to the point where any government acquisition program includes on their schedule enough time to allow the losing bidders (or, in many cases, NON-bidders) to protest the contract award decision before starting work on the task.
Please note that he's claiming that as a SUB-contractor, he was responsible for verifying that other contractors were doing their jobs. The government doesn't hand that tasking out to anyone.
This is a reason to vote for the guy?
And, of course, this hit piece failed to mention that Biff's running for office...