November 13, 2009 09:56 PM UTC

"Party Time" With "Puppet Jane!"

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• by: Colorado Pols

From the nonpartisan Sunlight Foundation’s Party Time blog:

Next Monday in a Capitol Hill townhouse, a long list of GOP insiders are hosting a luncheon fundraiser for Colorado Senate candidate Jane Norton.

They include lobbyist Judy Black, wife of Charles Black (and Norton’s brother in law), who was a top advisor to Sen. John McCain in his presidential bid; member-of- Congress-turned-lobbyist Susan Molinari; and Maria Cino, who helped organize the 2008 Republican convention.

Many eyes are on the Colorado race, which will pit Norton, a former lieutenant governor, against the winner of a contested Democratic primary between Sen. Michael Bennet and Andrew Romanoff, who was speaker of the Colorado House before being term-limited out.

Norton is running with an anti-Washington message. At a forum for the GOP Senate candidates in Colorado Tuesday night, she said, “The very heart and soul of who we are as Americans is being eroded. We’re seeing Washington’s giant hand grabbing everything in site,” reported the Denver Post.

But her ties in high GOP places, Norton has been collecting a substantial amount of cash-40 percent of her take-from outside the state, with Washington, DC being her second highest source of contributions geographically, according to the Center for Responsive Politics…

How do you think the iconoclastic Republican base is going to feel about Jane Norton’s languid concern for “Washington’s giant hand”…which, for Norton, is also the hand that feeds?

If we were Tom Wiens, we’d know exactly what to do with this.