From the Associated Press:
DENVER-Democrat Joe Miklosi of Denver says he’s made up his mind and will challenge Republican U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman in the Denver suburbs next year.
Miklosi has filed paperwork to run against the two-term incumbent. Miklosi currently lives in southeast Denver, not the 6th Congressional District. Miklosi, who has been mulling a congressional run for a while, says he’ll move to the 6th District as soon as a court settles on new district lines.
“I’m running because I want to restore job growth, economic growth, to increase prosperity,” said Miklosi, who works for a Centennial nonprofit that sends medical supplies to developing countries and was elected to the state Legislature in 2008.
Miklosi is gambling that the ultimate district will become friendlier for a Democrat. The current 6th District leans heavily toward the GOP but must shrink because of population growth over the last decade. Miklosi says he plans to move to Centennial or Greenwood Village.
Well, it looks like the Republicans will have their hands full in 2012, fighting three extremely strong challengers for seats that are seeming more and more vulnerable every day. Wait, did Coffman vote for that Ryan Vouchercare deal?
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I was thinking,”Oh, I’ve f’d this up somehow”, when it disappeared off the top.
Lessons learned.
To give me tips/guidance. I’m a newb.
Because the only way Miklosi gets within 15 of Coffman is a district made by Dems, for Dems. I hope for his sake that the courts prove what shameless partisans they are, but for the sake of the rest of the state, and the good people of today’s CD-6, I hope they don’t.
Should have listened to Matt Arnold about Clearing that Bench!
I guess there’s nothing scarier to the current GOP gaggle than running in semi-competitive districts on the strength of their record?
Be afraid ArapaGOP, be very afraid . . .
I admit a bias as a left of center registered independent who is a lawyer, but that is one of the more ignorant comments I have seen posted. Would you rather have elected judges and the circus that is the Wisconsin Supreme Court, not to mention the undermining of the court system by $$? Why don’t you wait to condemn until the final map is known; perhaps you will find your concerns are unfounded. If the members of the legislature – both sides of the aisles – could do their jobs this would not even be an issue.
Do you really expect intelligent conversation with anyone who uses such vapid phrases?
I don’t see anything wrong with electing judges. Everyone with that much power should be accountable to the people, and not in a pro forma way.
They can be bought.
Powerful argument to a Republican.
of most billionaires and corporate CEOs. Powerful people should be accountable.
I nominate me.
More euphonious.
Will it be a Salamander?
Coffman voted to replace Medicare with a voucher plan. Coffman voted to force the next generation of senior citizens to pay most of their retirement money on health care that the last generation didn’t.
Coffman is quite vulnerable, as long as he doesn’t get to run in Tom Tancredo’s ‘we’ll elect any R no matter how embarrassing’ district.
Republicans fear competitive districts, and the whole world is about to see why!
I think Coffman is somewhat vulnerable. I wouldn’t say “quite” just yet. Hailing from this district, as you pointed out, I can say pretty confidantly there are plenty of anything-but-a-democrat type voters.
I suppose we shall see!
a modest amount of increased competitiveness. On the other hand, I may be liberated from CD6 altogether. It will be like being released from the gulag.
Please put in a good word for me, too.
I just wish everything was decided and final so we’d know what we’re looking at in 2012.
makes it tough for potential candidates who do feel it is important to run where they live.
This is probably the strongest challenger Democrats have fielded for CO-06 in a long time.
It seems that most of the maps – including the GOP maps – turn CO-06 into a more competitive district; that means it’s more likely that Coffman winds up with a real fight on his hands this time around.
Good luck, Joe.
Do you have any idea when the final districts will be finalized?
Whenever the courts get around to making them.
for Oct 17 on the lawsuits.
virtually nil.
There are too many heels dug in for a special session to be useful.
I think now with Sal and Brandon in the Congressional sweepstakes and neither resigning his seat, there is no chance of a special session.
Besides, I think the Governor has probably assessed the probabilities of something meaningful being produced and is not going to be enthusiastic about calling a special session and spending taxpayer money with a likely deadlock. Remember, he tried to bring the sides together during the Spring and it did not work.
I would not be surprised to see a ballot issue down the road that puts Congressional district boundary adjustments under the Redistricting Commission.
I’d vote for it.