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The Family Research Council is accusing the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC) of "abandoning" two socially conservative female congresswomen who are running for re-election. FRC says the National Republican Campaign Committee has pulled ad spending from races involving freshman Minnesota Representative Michele Bachmann and Colorado Representative Marilyn Musgrave. It was Musgrave who proposed the Federal Marriage Amendment in 2004. David Nammo is executive director of FRC Action PAC. He says whether it was going to give Bachmann and Musgrave money or stop running ads for them, the NRCC sent the wrong message to social conservatives by announcing it was pulling...

Dog doo dispute raises stink Mike Peters April 19, 2007 The infamous "dog poop" case took center stage in Weld County Court Wednesday, and the defense attorney said afterward, "Apparently, Marilyn Musgrave's office can't tell the difference between a piece of dog poop and a bomb." But his client, Kathleen Ensz of Greeley, said she considers the misdemeanor case against her a "serious debate about free speech." Ensz is fighting a misdemeanor charge of "use of a noxious substance." Last May 31, she placed a Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave campaign leaflet -- filled with dog poop -- in the entry to...

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee reserved $630,000 in TV advertising for Angie Paccione’s bid to unseat Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, but has apparently pulled the money. “If this isn’t the final nail in Angie Paccione’s political coffin, it’s pretty close,” Musgrave campaign manager Shaun Kenney said in a press release. “Coming on top of the poll earlier this week showing Marilyn Musgrave leading by 10 percentage points, it is clear that national Democrats have completely given up hope for “Angry Angie”.” Paccione was recently named to the DCCC’s coveted “Red to Blue” program, designed to funnel...

Republicans allege two members of Michigan's Stryker family may have links to a fraud case in South Dakota involving Medicare and the Stryker Corp. Stryker is a medical products company. Jon Stryker has contributed to groups protecting gay rights. Anti-gay rights U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard, R-Colo., has called for an investigation into the fraud case to see if it extends further... The fraud case reportedly involves a medical clinic in South Dakota and the Stryker Corp. aggreeing to repay Medicare $345,000. The government says the clinic took money from the Stryker Corp. in exchange for using the company's orthopedic products....

GREELEY, Colo. -- Republican U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave's re-election campaign was already heated, and it just got smelly as well: Her staff accused a Democratic activist Thursday of leaving an envelope full of dog feces at Musgrave's Greeley office. Musgrave spokeswoman Shaun Kenney said someone stuffed the envelope through the mail slot in the door on May 31 and then sped away in a car. Kenney said most of the preprinted return address was blacked out, but staffers used the nine-digit ZIP code to trace it to Kathleen Ensz, a Weld County Democratic volunteer. Ensz told The Associated Press she...

'Rats are accusing Musgrave of focusing on trivial issues and neglecting constituants.

The 10 members are Reps. Bob Beauprez (Colo.), Mike Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Jim Gerlach (Pa.), Marilyn Musgrave (Colo.), Anne Northup (Ky.), Jon Porter (Nev.), Dave Reichert (Wash.), Rick Renzi (Ariz.), Rob Simmons (Conn.) and Mike Sodrel (Ind.).

House Republican leaders last night notified their 10 most vulnerable lawmakers that they will be the lucky beneficiaries of this year's first ROMP (Retain Our Majority Program) fundraiser. The list provides an early preview of who GOP leaders think need the most help from their fellow lawmakers. It also lets potential Democratic challengers know that any run will be expensive. The 10 members are Reps. Bob Beauprez (Colo.), Mike Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Jim Gerlach (Pa.), Marilyn Musgrave (Colo.), Anne Northup (Ky.), Jon Porter (Nev.), Dave Reichert (Wash.), Rick Renzi (Ariz.), Rob Simmons (Conn.) and Mike Sodrel (Ind.). Rep. Christopher Shays (R-Conn.),...

A new ad attacking Rep. Marilyn Musgrave features a pink-suited woman flitting into a fiery battle and taking money out of a soldier's wallet. "Congresswoman Marilyn Musgrave claims nobody supports our troops more than she does, but she voted to slash veterans' benefits by $14 billion," the narrator of the ad says. Advertisement The television ad, which started Sunday, is second in a series in which a pink-clad actress portrays Musgrave. Political science professors observing the race warn that the ads may be so over the top that they harm Musgrave's Democratic opponent, Stan Matsunaka. The new ad also says...

Washington, DC: Today, Congressmen Marilyn Musgrave (CO-04) and Virgil Goode (VA-05) announced the creation of the Congressional Second Amendment Caucus. Comprised of 38 Members of Congress, this caucus is solely dedicated to the right of lawful individuals to own firearms as granted in the Second Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. "As lawmakers in our nation's highest legislative body, we must fight to preserve the Constitutional right for individual citizens to keep and bear arms," said Musgrave. "While many in our nation's capital seek to chip away at the right of firearm ownership and possession, the 2nd Amendment Caucus is committed...

Senator Hatch: Provoking A Split Within Conservatism…Again Paul Weyrich Monday, Apr. 05, 2004 The year was 1976. Ronald Reagan had lost the GOP's presidential nomination to Gerald Ford. The prospects for conservative victories in Congress were not very promising. But I was sure I had found a rising star. He was articulate. He was charismatic. He claimed to be a principled conservative. I thought of him as a potential presidential candidate. As chairman of the Free Congress PAC, I backed him at the state convention (In his state you have to get a certain percentage of the convention vote to...

Bob Faust has officially announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for Colorado's 4th Congressional District. Faust, who said his approach to resolving issues is grounded in equality, impartiality, integrity and fiscal responsibility, has identified four primary issues he is determined to address at the national level: National health care for all Americans, national college programs eliminating in- and out-of- state tuition rates, equal rights and redefining the rights of those between the ages of 18 and 20. Faust has until June 1 to file enough signatures to place his name on the primary ballot and to challenge incumbent Rep....

My fellow FReepers, from Colorado or elsewhere: Yesterday, I received an e-mail from Representative Marilyn Musgrave (R-CO) who, as you know, wrote the Federal Marriage Amendment now in debate. As you may also know, she stood up and talked back to her detractors at a Protect Marriage Rally in Denver, prompting a huge backlash from the gay community. They are determined to defeat Hon. Musgrave at all costs, replacing her with a RINO or a Dimocrat (which is, she tells me, what happened last time someone proposed a marriage amendment). Bush, Campbell, Allard, and Owens endorse her, but that is...

DENVER (News 4) Gov. Bill Owens will not running for U.S. Senate, News 4 reports. News 4 has confirmed that Owens will make the announcement at 1 p.m. Watch his announcement live on the home page of news4colorado.com at that time. Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, 70, said last week that he would not seek re-election to a third term in a surprise announcement that came after two hospital visits for stress-related heartburn. Owens won re-election in 2002 with 65 percent of the vote and has been mentioned as a possible cabinet member in a second Bush administration and even as...

Feb. 27 — When President Bush called on Congress to support a constitutional amendment to define marriage as a union only between a man and a woman, the debate about redefining American marriage was set on a whole new path. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave's name will always be associated with the possibility of revolutionary change. "Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union of a man and a woman," said Musgrave, R-Colo., reading her proposal for a constitutional amendment that would also forbid the courts from imposing a solution. Musgrave's proposal was actually introduced in Congress last June....

The first-term congresswoman who's taking the lead against same-sex marriage. CONGRESSWOMAN Marilyn Musgrave, a first-term Republican from rural eastern Colorado, is, in the words of one reporter, "taking freshman feistiness to a new level." Dressed in a raspberry-colored suit, with simple blond hair framing a pretty face, Musgrave hardly comes across as aggressive. Yet she takes the description as a compliment. "Seniority is the name of the game here," she says, "but almost anybody you talk to . . . at town meetings or at meetings of members of your party, whether you're Republican or Democratic, [will say they're] really...

The congresswoman who has introduced the Federal Marriage Amendment in the U.S. House is expressing some frustration with political colleagues who don't think the legislation is necessary.Marilyn Musgrave is a Republican from Colorado. The Christian legislator believes a constitutional amendment that enshrines God's definition of marriage is the only way to stop unselected judges from forcing homosexual marriage on a nation that does not want it."We now are seeing in our culture a great deal of judicial activism, and I do not believe that unselected judges who are virtually unaccountable to the voters should be making these decisions," Musgrave says....

Sign the petition here! The petition simply says:"Marriage in the United States shall consist only of the union between a man a woman. Neither this constitution or the constitution of any state, nor state or federal law, shall be construed to require that marital status or the legal incidents thereof be conferred upon unmarried couples or groups"

<p>Pundits across the political spectrum agree that the Massachusetts Supreme Court is on the verge of inventing a constitutional right for homosexuals to marry legally. This decision will radically redefine the meaning and benefits of marriage. The question for the American people is whether we are willing to let the institution of marriage be redefined by a few unelected, unaccountable judges — or should our strong preference to preserve traditional marriage be respected and defended.</p>

Colorado congresswoman carrying the fight against gay marriage created: July 01, 2003 - 6:16 PM updated: July 01, 2003 - 6:16 PM posted by Web Producer Jeannie Piper <!null CB>DENVER (AP) - While gays claim victory with a Supreme Court decision knocking down a ban on sodomy, freshman Republican Rep. Marilyn Musgrave insists the real battle is over the right of homosexuals to marry. And she is leading a charge to make sure that doesn't happen. The mother of four from the plains of northeast Colorado has introduced a proposed constitutional amendment that would effectively outlaw gay marriage. The...