June 29, 2010 04:54 PM UTC

Jane Norton goes up hard negative. Will Buck man up?

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• by: Ah Choo

(Oh, why not? – promoted by Middle of the Road)

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Jane Norton, the consummate establishment Republican, with her stupendous Washington GOP connections, has gone up on radio attacking Ken Buck over Buck’s ethically-challenged actions while working at the U.S. Attorney’s office.

To recap the ethics story, a Denver pawn shop run by some well-connected Republican donors was hawking handguns that were routinely being impounded by Denver Police. The ATF ran an investigation, and after much hemming and hawing, the USA’s office finally filed charges. Buck then deliberately sabotaged the Federal case by leaking internal USA deliberations to defense counsel, and was officially reprimanded by now-Colorado Attorney General John Suthers. Most agree that Buck had a point that the case sucked, but it doesn’t excuse what he did. Most importantly, these guys aren’t selling guns anymore.

According to the Post, Jane Norton is now up on radio now beating the crap out of Buck, using the original Denver Post story.

Question is, at what point does Ken Buck stop letting the 527’s do all his heavy lifting, put on his big boy pants, and finally stand up for himself? Jane Norton’s mind-bending “War On Islam” position is about as obvious an attempt to change the subject from the tax revenue increase policies she supported as Lt. Governor–not to mention her coziness with the Republican lobbyist core in D.C.–as one could expect.

Man up, Buck!