October 01, 2009 08:28 PM UTC

Wadhams Spending Lots of Time on Nevada Senate Race

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• by: Colorado Pols

A couple of weeks ago, rumors circulated that Colorado GOP chairman Dick Wadhams was considering leaving that job to manage the campaign of Nevada’s Sue Lowden. Wadhams was quick to deny the rumor, and nothing has happened since then to suggest his departure from Colorado is imminent.

Nonetheless, Wadhams appears to be devoting a fair number of man-hours to Nevada’s 2010 Senate race–as the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza reported this morning:

Former Nevada state Republican Party Chairwoman Sue Lowden will announce her bid to challenge Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid today, immediately becoming the highest-profile candidate in an increasingly crowded field hoping to unseat the Nevada Democrat…

She is being guided in the campaign by — among others — Robert Uithoven who managed Gov. Jim Gibbons (R) successful 2006 campaign, D.C.-based campaign finance attorney Charlie Spies and Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dick Wadhams.

Wadhams, who managed the successful campaign of Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) in 2004 and the unsuccessful bid of then Sen. George Allen (R-Va.) in 2006, is a close personal friend of Lowden and his fingerprints are all over the team she has hired. [Pols emphasis]

Lowden’s finance director — Janel Domenico — held the same position for Thune and Allen. Her pollster is Todd Vitale who is based in Denver and worked with Wadhams on Sen. Wayne Allard’s (R-Co.) campaigns.

Local Republicans, with fresh memories of 2008’s unsuccessful attempt by Wadhams at holding down more than one job, might reasonably wonder if he’s focused on the job that pays his salary.