September 29, 2006 07:09 PM UTC

Have You Endorsed Doug Lamborn?

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• by: Colorado Pols

You may want to take a minute today to check with Republican Doug Lamborn’s campaign to see if you have endorsed him for congress over Democrat Jay Fawcett. Why? Because Lamborn may claim that he has your endorsement, whether he bothered to ask you about it or not. As Colorado Confidential reports:

Republican Doug Lamborn’s campaign manager Jon Hotaling, however, doesn’t have much to say about the magazine’s claim. “I don’t know why the National Journal put it there; they gave no comments.”

“Senator Lamborn enjoys widespread support in the district,” Hotaling maintains. “The only ones who see to be upset about the will of the people are Mr. Hefley and a handful of  [Jeff Crank] supporters.”

The last reference is to retiring Congressman Joel Hefley, who has refused to endorse Lamborn, calling the primary battle against Crank, his former aide, and four others, “sleazy” and “dishonest.”

Hotaling maintains that, aside from Crank, whom he says Lamborn has “met” with, his other four primary opponents have all formally endorsed him. Bentley Rayburn? “Yes.” Lionel Rivera? “Yes.” Duncan Bremer? “I believe so.” John Anderson? “I believe so.”

As it turns out, not only has Bremer not endorsed Lamborn – he hasn’t even been asked to do so. Neither has Anderson, and Rivera’s former campaign manager didn’t know if he had endorsed Lamborn or not.