November 09, 2009 10:04 PM UTC

Wiens Hits Norton on "Your Show"

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• by: Colorado Pols

If you haven’t yet seen GOP Senate candidate Tom Wiens on 9NEWS’ Your Show with Adam Schrager from yesterday, it’s an interview worth watching. Wiens comes across as engaging and comfortable discussing complex issues–we were impressed. We’d post the video here directly but we haven’t figured out how to make 9NEWS video load without autoplaying.

Some of Wiens’ remarks seem directly aimed at opponent Jane Norton–transcribed below:

You look at how this election is developing just already right here in Colorado and throughout the nation.  You have Washington special interest lobbyists that are so committed to the system [as] it exists right now that they can’t afford to have independent people to be elected to the United States Senate. [Pols emphasis]  And we’ve got to make sure that people of Colorado stand up and really understand what’s at stake in this next election.  So, in order to fix the things that are wrong in Washington, that has to change at the grassroots level.

So, ah, who do you think he’s talking about? As we’ve said about similar remarks from gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry, Wiens is very smart to play himself off “D.C. corruption,” Republican and Democrat undistinguished–it could pay off brilliantly if a wave of anti-establishment backlash prevails in next year’s elections.

Starting with the primary?