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March 02, 2011 08:50 PM UTC

Gessler, Schaffer, Buck join Harvey's Team

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State Senator Ted Harvey’s bid for chairman gains momentum

HIGHLANDS RANCH — “I’m honored to have Secretary of State Scott Gessler, State School Board Chairman Bob Schaffer and District Attorney Ken Buck support my campaign for state chairman.  I appreciate their votes and am grateful for their leadership and commitment to our party,” said Harvey.

University of Colorado Regents Steve Bosley and Jim Geddes, as well as, State Representatives J. Paul Brown, Jim Kerr, Larry Liston and Tom Massey have also added their support to Harvey’s bid to lead Colorado’s Republican Party now that Wadhams is out of the race.

“The out pouring of support for my campaign from around the state has been overwhelming,” said Harvey.  “I am committed to redoubling my efforts to earn the votes of the members of the Central Committee who are the backbone of our party.  My passion is to boldly move forward and return the Republican Party to dominance in 2012.”

“I am eager to work hard to unite our Republican leaders and financial supporters with our traditional party activists and the new TEA Party grassroots under a principled, dynamic and successful GOP banner so we can take the battle of ideas directly to the Democrats,” concluded Harvey.

 

Additional supporters for Harvey for Chairman since Wadhams withdrew:

Secretary of State Scott Gessler

State School Board Chairman Bob Schaffer

District Attorney Ken Buck

Steve Bosley, University of Colorado Regent

Jim Geddes, University of Colorado Regent

Representative J. Paul Brown

Representative Jim Kerr

Representative Larry Liston

Representative Tom Massey

These leaders join Ted Harvey’s initial list of supporters:  

Senate Minority Leader Mike Kopp (Jefferson County)

Senate Minority Caucus Chairman Mark Scheffel (Douglas County)

Senate Minority Whip Scott Renfroe (Weld County)

State Senator Kevin Grantham (South Eastern Colorado)

State Senator Kent Lambert (El Paso County)

State Senator Kevin Lundberg (Larimer County)

State Senator Steve King (Mesa County)

House Majority Caucus Chairwoman Carole Murray (Douglas County)

State Representative Mark Barker (El Paso County)

State Representative David Balmer (Arapahoe County)

State Representative Randy Baumgardner (North West Colorado)

State Representative Laura Bradford (Mesa County)

State Representative Kathleen Conti (Arapahoe County)

State Representative Don Coram (Montrose County)

State Representative Chris Holbert (Douglas County)

State Representative Janak Joshi (El Paso County)

State Representative Marsha Looper (El Paso County)

State Representative Ray Scott (Mesa County)

State Representative Jerry Sonnenberg (North East CO)

State Representative Libby Szabo (Jefferson County)

State Representative Glenn Vaad (Weld County)

Former State Senator David Schultheis (Colorado Springs)

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11 thoughts on “Gessler, Schaffer, Buck join Harvey’s Team

  1. When I counted the elected officials that have publicly sided with Harvey, there were approximately 25. (I am not counting Ken Buck and the like because I don’t know if he gets a vote or not).

    Based on Jason Salzman’s earlier post, to be elected chair of the gop, one needs 151, half of 300 (THIS IS SPARTA! – sorry, got confused for a moment)

    90 GOP elected officials  

    + 192 Republican Country Party representatives

    + 18 bonus delegates

    = 300.

    So if I did the math right and the numbers are generally accurate, it looks like Harvey is (publicly) about 16% of the way there. Hmmm, now I’m curious what public numbers the other candidates have posted.

    Am I right on this, wrong?  

    1. I just did a quick facebook search and Ryan Call has a Facebook page but no endorsements up.

      Matt Arnold’s facebook page also did not have any endorsements up.

      It makes me wonder how many they have secured yet. More important than endorsements, how many voting members do they have backing them?

      1. Ok then, it sounds like the entire list mentioned above are voting members. So that would put him at 30 voting members out of 151 needed to win, so he is about 20% the way there. Interesting.

        You have to wonder at the fact that the others haven’t posted endorsements. Makes me wonder if they are doing well.

        Plus, unless I am wrong, Harvey also gets a vote so it puts him at 31.

    1. He’s so far right that in his ideal world RINO’s are extinct.  He’s Tancredo-ish and I suspect a Teaparty sympathizer.  Harvey is no Owens by any stretch.

  2. but will this leave Harvey as the Hillary Clinton of the GOP chair race? My understanding is that the largest chunk of votes comes from county party officials. Are they keeping mum for now, or has Steve not managed to get any commitments yet?

    If it weren’t for the lack of endorsements elsewhere, this wouldn’t be that great a showing. Buck but not Suthers? Gessler but not Stapleton? This is not going to be won on the first ballot and there will be hurt feelings on one side or the other.

    Here’s hoping the existing splits in the party continue long enough to get some fixes to state revenues passed.

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