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"Party Time" With "Puppet Jane!"

by: Colorado Pols

Fri Nov 13, 2009 at 11:56:40 AM MST

From the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation's Party Time blog:

Next Monday in a Capitol Hill townhouse, a long list of GOP insiders are hosting a luncheon fundraiser for Colorado Senate candidate Jane Norton.
They include lobbyist Judy Black, wife of Charles Black (and Norton's brother in law), who was a top advisor to Sen. John McCain in his presidential bid; member-of- Congress-turned-lobbyist Susan Molinari; and Maria Cino, who helped organize the 2008 Republican convention.
Many eyes are on the Colorado race, which will pit Norton, a former lieutenant governor, against the winner of a contested Democratic primary between Sen. Michael Bennet and Andrew Romanoff, who was speaker of the Colorado House before being term-limited out.
Norton is running with an anti-Washington message. At a forum for the GOP Senate candidates in Colorado Tuesday night, she said, "The very heart and soul of who we are as Americans is being eroded. We're seeing Washington's giant hand grabbing everything in site," reported the Denver Post.
But her ties in high GOP places, Norton has been collecting a substantial amount of cash-40 percent of her take-from outside the state, with Washington, DC being her second highest source of contributions geographically, according to the Center for Responsive Politics...

How do you think the iconoclastic Republican base is going to feel about Jane Norton's languid concern for "Washington's giant hand"...which, for Norton, is also the hand that feeds?

If we were Tom Wiens, we'd know exactly what to do with this.

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"Party Time" With "Puppet Jane!" | 16 comments

Wow.

She's aggressively raising money. Some comes from out of State. Just like Sen. Bennet.

"Kevin and I will keep them out somehow -- even if we have to redefine what the peer-review literature is!"

by: Laughing Boy @ Fri Nov 13, 2009 at 13:21:19 PM CST

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And Bennet isn't campaigning as an outsider

so the hypocrisy charge is ever so slightly less effective against him.

I want a nickel every time someone uses the "We are all triguardian" joke, or I start posting more naked pictures of politicians.

by: sxp151 @ Fri Nov 13, 2009 at 13:26:05 PM CST

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Just like any CO

D candidate who needs north of $15m.

There isn't $15mm to be raised in state for a progressive or D candidate.

Has any CO D ever raised more than $7.5mm from mostly (95% +) instate donors?

What worries me is my friends on the left who are buying into the 'inevitable GOP resurgence' - or helping it for misguided reasons. JeffcoBlue Jan 2 2010

by: MADCO @ Fri Nov 13, 2009 at 14:57:21 PM CST

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Isn't Tom Wiens running?

If he is, the statement below is a bit presumptuous.

Many eyes are on the Colorado race, which will pit Norton, a former lieutenant governor, against the winner of a contested Democratic primary between Sen. Michael Bennet and Andrew Romanoff, who was speaker of the Colorado House before being term-limited out.

by: Half Glass Full @ Fri Nov 13, 2009 at 13:52:49 PM CST

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Shocker

Is this really news? EXTRA EXTRA "People connected to politics give money to politicians!"

This is just silly.

"the Constitution has also become outdated in many respects and needs to be revised--and possibly rewritten from scratch!" --JO

by: Aggie @ Fri Nov 13, 2009 at 15:23:10 PM CST

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Extra Extra

"total beltway insider claims she's an outsider "

I'd say that'll generate some ink (or bytes)

"Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement" - Jim Horning

by: Fidel's dirt nap @ Fri Nov 13, 2009 at 15:31:55 PM CST

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WHAT??

UPDTATE! "Politician who claims they are not part of the establishment... actually is!!!"

That is even more played out. I honestly think people tune this stuff out.

I have no doubt "journalists" will cover it, I just don't think its compelling to the average joe.

"the Constitution has also become outdated in many respects and needs to be revised--and possibly rewritten from scratch!" --JO

by: Aggie @ Fri Nov 13, 2009 at 21:32:41 PM CST

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Did the Post really use the word "site"?

The right word is "sight". Damn textlish.

by: OneEyedOwl @ Fri Nov 13, 2009 at 15:42:12 PM CST

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Or...

I would like to cite the Denver Post site which should use the word sight.

Tea party support in the primary.

by: DavidThi808 @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 00:42:12 AM CST

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Exactly :)

by: OneEyedOwl @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 11:34:05 AM CST

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OMG. She's such a ridiculous liar!

by: Jambalaya @ Fri Nov 13, 2009 at 18:23:04 PM CST

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I am so confused

Who is running?
Jane?
Gale?
Kay?
Tom (after the visit to Trinidad)?

by: davebarnes @ Fri Nov 13, 2009 at 22:21:47 PM CST

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Big Mike

"Please don't eat any peanuts out of anyone's crap." - LaughingBoy

by: RedGreen @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 00:47:05 AM CST

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Naughton, not Norton

but I still thought it was funny.

"Oh Lord, are there really people starving still?"

by: Littletonian @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 06:24:30 AM CST

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I thought Mike Norton was US Attorney

...at some point? Did I imagine it?

by: Jambalaya @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 16:12:40 PM CST

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Correct

He was formerly a US attorney.

"the Constitution has also become outdated in many respects and needs to be revised--and possibly rewritten from scratch!" --JO

by: Aggie @ Sat Nov 14, 2009 at 18:40:00 PM CST

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