July 29, 2009 06:43 PM UTC

GOP Primary for State Treasurer Heats Up

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• by: Colorado Pols

Now that Republican banker J.J. Ament has joined the GOP field in the race for State Treasurer, we may finally have a primary in Colorado that gets interesting (the GOP Governor’s race has been pretty tame except for one or two shots).

As The Colorado Statesman reports, sparks are starting to fly a little bit. Even if the sparks are confined to the kind of sniping that the uber-rich attempt:

“I currently am blessed with a great paying job. My opponent doesn’t have a job and hasn’t in some time. I think it’s important that people do public service as a sacrifice. A very transparent way to distinguish myself is that I have a job in the private sector and I am sacrificing that for public service,” Stapleton said.

Walker Roberts Stapleton, of course, is a direct blood relative to the Bush family. What kind of important hard-hat wearing work does he do that distinguishes him from Ament? Well, we’ll let his own website bio explain:

Walker is an active real estate investor in Colorado and has made investments in land, retail and residential real estate throughout the state. He also is president and CEO of SonomaWest Holdings, a small publicly traded real estate company.

Not exactly a coal miner, that Stapleton (being a real estate investor kind of requires you to already have money), but he has a job and Ament doesn’t! Nanny-nanny-boo-boo.

We’re excited about this race. Two rich dudes exchanging nonsensical, petty attacks trying to pretend they aren’t as silver spoon-fed as the other guy.

Good stuff.