January 09, 2012 10:27 PM UTC

DeGette Kicks Off 2012 Campaign

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• by: Colorado Pols

CD-1 Representative Diana DeGette will next week be kicking off the campaign for her 9th term in Congress.

From Diana DeGette for Congress:

Please join

Congresswoman Diana DeGette

For her 2012 Campaign Kickoff Party

Thursday, January 19

5 – 7 pm

The Mercury Cafe

2199 California Street

Denver

Complimentary appetizers and cash bar

Please RSVP by January 16 to Tom Keating

tkeating@degette.com or 303-832-1925

Although the Dean of the Colorado Delegation, DeGette is notorious for lackluster community outreach – after all, in the heavily Democratic Denver district, the Congresswoman doesn’t have to work incredibly hard to keep her job.

To her credit, however, DeGette has been doing more to publicize her campaign this cycle than in recent years. She’ll still cruise to re-election, of course, but perhaps she’s becoming cognizant of the criticism that she focuses too much on DC to the detriment of those, you know, she’s been elected to represent.