November 09, 2006 08:13 PM UTC

The First Sore Loserman 2006 Award Nominee Is...

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• by: Colorado Pols

…ousted state senator Lew Entz, according to today’s Pueblo Chieftain:

After all was said and done, Democrat Gail Schwartz surged ahead Wednesday to unseat incumbent GOP Sen. Lewis Entz in Senate District 5…

Schwartz won 81 percent of the vote in Pitkin County and 63 percent in Gunnison County.

While Entz won about 60 percent of the vote in Alamosa, Rio Grande, Mineral, Hindsdale and Delta counties, it wasn’t enough to top the Democratic votes in those more populated counties.

A clearly disappointed Entz said his troubles stemmed from U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar’s endorsement of Schwartz. Though Salazar and Schwartz are fellow party members, the senator and Entz are long-time friends who have routinely supported each other in previous races.

“Pitkin County went after me. The (San Luis) Valley and Ken Salazar went after me, too,” the Hooper potato farmer said. “I’d of won this deal if it hadn’t been for Ken Salazar. It’s just a case that he went south on me after promising that he’d stay neutral, then he told me she raised a lot of money for his campaign last time and is going to raise money for the next one. Money verses friendship, I guess.”

Schwartz, however, said Entz has only himself to blame for the outcome…

We’ll be keeping a close eye out for Loserman Award candidates as they emerge–be sure to let us know when you spot them.