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September 10, 2012 11:50 PM UTC

Tipton, Pace Duke It Out In Odd Club 20 Debate

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  • by: Colorado Pols

For coverage of this weekend’s Club 20 debate in Grand Junction between GOP Rep. Scott Tipton and challenger Sal Pace, we turn first to Joe Moylan of the Craig Daily Press:

[Unaffiliated candidate Tisha] Casida found herself serving in a spectator role when the debate shifted to cross-examination as Tipton and Pace launched attacks on one another about health care, partisanship, water rights and alleged misuse of taxpayer dollars for campaign funding.

The cross-examination portion of the debate took a particularly interesting turn when Tipton asked Pace who he planned to endorse for president, Barack Obama or Mitt Romney.

“Congressman Tipton, I don’t think it’s any secret who either one of us is voting for,” Pace said. “I think it’s pretty obvious that you’re going to be voting for the Republican and I’m going to be voting for the Democrat.”

Oddly enough, all of the coverage we’ve seen of this debate has zeroed in on what seems to have been a throwaway exchange between Tipton and Pace over who they plan to support for President. Having watched the video of this “cross-examination” period (see below), it looks to us like Pace simply didn’t understand that Tipton’s objective was to get Pace to say, for whatever reason, the name “Barack Obama.” It’s not like there was any confusion about who the Democratic and Republican candidates in this debate were themselves voting for.

Far more interesting to us was the sparring about Medicare and the Ryan budget:

Which the Durango Herald managed to afford less than one sentence of coverage:

Pace criticized Tipton for voting for the budget written by vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan, saying it would usher in cuts to Medicare benefits and the Forest Service’s firefighting capacity.

Pace did pretty well tying Tipton and the Ryan budget to public lands protection, too.

But the debate culminated in the “cross-examination” period between Pace and Tipton, and the weirdness over who the candidates support for President–watch it below in its entirety. Pace lands a number of the major talking-point blows against Tipton, from his brush with the House Ethics Committee over family members profiting from his office (which Tipton inexplicably denies wholesale) to the case of Tipton’s campaign donor Gary Boyce of “San Luis water grab” infamy–Tipton does a little better by turning that question back onto Pace and support he’s received from Nancy Pelosi. But for whatever reason, Tipton’s people really seem to think this “who do you support for President” thing won the debate for them.

A poll follows–who came out on top, and how much will it matter?

Who won the CD-3 Tipton/Pace debate this weekend?

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15 thoughts on “Tipton, Pace Duke It Out In Odd Club 20 Debate”

  1. That’s crazy.  

    Glad to see that Tipton understands what matters to his district.  

    It is a shocking revelation though.  Who knew? A good retort would have been to ask Tippy who got his support at the caucus and primary.  Was he always a Romney guy?  Or is that now just a matter of convenience, sort of like most of Mr. Romney’s positions themselves?

  2. You don’t think it’s weird that Sal Pace refused to let Barack Obama’s name pass his lips on camera? The reason he didn’t is not obvious? You’re more naive than I thought, or maybe afraid like Sal.

  3. He sounds like s whiny kid compared to Tipton, who sounds like a statesman. This video blows away everything you ever said about Tipton. He has a great stage presence and the crowd was with him.

    I feel bad for Tisha Casida. A nice woman, but she’s clearly out of her league.

    1. It was Club 20 in Mesa County. Tipton is preaching to the choir.

      I don’t think that’s where Sal expects to win his race.  

      A “statesman” ?  Scott Tipton?  Oh my.  

      2. If you did, then you would know he isn’t terribly well liked in large portions of it.  I can say I have been to his office in Alamosa numerous times and if it is even open his “staff” never have time to speak with his constituents.  Tipton has canceled events, failed to advertise when he will be back in town, and just flat out avoided the people he is serving (exactly like Salazar…and we know how that ended).

        Tipton can make all the claims he wishes in the debates, but his voting records stands clear.  He has been an absentee representative on most issues that matter to rural Colorado:  water rights – go to his website and see that his big claim to fame is an amendment to a Farm Bill that he voted against and it is still stuck in committee; jobs – Tipton has done nothing to help rural Colorado with jobs (his website talks about the trade bills with Columbia, South Korea, and Panama, which he had nothing to do with); education – he voted to significantly reduce pell grants, which directly hurts rural Colorado (the SLV is one of the poorest parts of the US and many students require Pell grants for school…at my University we have seen students having to drop out because of loss of Pell grants); telecom – he has sponsored and supported bills that allow cable/internet providers to charge more to rural customers or to simply opt-out of having to even provide service in rural areas; health care – he voted and co-sponsored bills that would kill clinics and shut down rural hospitals because of lack of funding; farming – he claims to be helping local farmers, but if you look at many of the bills he sponsors or co-sponsors, the language in them actually benefit the corporation farms and hurt the local family farms.

        Tipton is just as bad for rural Colorado as Salazar was.  He needs to go and those of us out here in the sticks know it.  

        Now Pace needs to let us know why we should support him in Tipton’s place.  

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