March 22, 2011 06:11 PM UTC

Wadhams/Harvey Feud Getting Nasty as GOP Chair Vote Nears

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• by: Colorado Pols

You didn’t really think outgoing Colorado Republican Party chairman Dick Wadhams was going to take the bashing of his financial custodianship by the leading candidate for his replacement, Sen. Ted Harvey…lying down, did you? As the Colorado Independent’s Leslie Jorgensen reports, Wadhams apparently still has a few knife tricks in his bag:

Colorado Republican Party Chair Dick Wadhams apparently isn’t the only one attacking the financial acumen of state Sen. Ted Harvey, who aims to succeed him. Obscure court records documenting a $49,000 note that Harvey paid to J.P. Morgan Chase are being shopped to reporters by an operative with past ties to the Republican National Committee.

Despite the fact Harvey avoided a judgment by paying off the note in 2009, the documents are being dished to Denver media outlets in an attempt to hammer another nail in the Highlands Ranch mortgage broker’s reputation that might be marred by a $19,000 unpaid debt from his failed 6th Congressional District bid in 2008

“I have no judgments against me and I have a perfect credit score,” declared Harvey. “Make sure you print that or I’ll sue you.”

…Wadhams, among others, have questioned Harvey’s ability to raise money for the state GOP and mused that the state senator is motivated by the party chairman’s nearly $150,000 annual salary.

“I don’t think Ted Harvey has the foggiest idea of how to raise money,” said Wadhams, who vowed to expose “the little creep.” [Pols emphasis]

Isn’t it funny how every time a Colorado Republican runs afoul of Dick Wadhams, some shadowy operative “with ties to the Republican National Committee” comes out of the woodwork to scumbag said Colorado Republican? You know, with obscure court records and all kinds of other information suggesting considerable homework has been done?

It seems to us this is the kind of behavior that cost Wadhams his standing with the rank-and-file of the Party to begin with, and contributed to the current state of factional infighting–but that’s just how the man rolls we guess. And for a few more days, the Colorado GOP with him.