FOX 31’s Eli Stokols reports:
State Sen. Kevin Lundberg, one of the most conservative members of the General Assembly, has formed an exploratory committee, taking the first official step toward a run for Congress next year…
Should that race materialize, the contrasts will be sharp between Lundberg, a member of the conservative Republican Study Committee, and Polis, a gay millionaire from Boulder who’s championed the DREAM Act.
The potential match-up only materialized earlier this week after the Colorado Supreme Court decided a long battle over redistricting in favor of a Democratic map that shifted Larimer County, which includes Berthoud, into Polis’s 2nd Congressional District.
“That’s one of the things I’ve considered in all of this,” Lundberg told FOX31 Denver Tuesday. “The reality is it still leans to the Democratic side. I know it’s going to be a tough run.
“But I believe the people need a choice — do we keep going down the road Jared Polis and Barack Obama have been taking us or do we go in a more conservative direction?”
State Sen. Kevin Lundberg has richly earned his spot as one of our very favorite conservative legislators–a proud leader on such issues as climate change denial, replicating Arizona’s reviled anti-immigrant legislation in Colorado, and waging war on birth control pills. Or maybe perpetuating “birther” hysteria and Glenn Beck conspiracy theories about public assistance is more noteworthy to you. Pretty much on any issue that pushes voters’ hot buttons, left or right, Lundberg has got an opinion way out there on the fringe–and again, proudly so.
But as much fun as it might be for Democrats to see Lundberg get resoundingly pummeled by incumbent Rep. Jared Polis in what remains a Democratic-leaning district (and believe us, it would be a lot of fun), rumors circulated just as fast as Lundberg’s announcement yesterday evening–rather obviously meant to tamp down any buzz Lundberg’s announcement might generate–of at least two other Republicans who are interested in this race.
Bottom line: Lundberg would be entertaining, but just about any other Republican–possible exceptions include former state Rep. Jim Welker and the ex-head of the Larimer County GOP now up on charges–should be able to pinch a Lundberg bid for Congress off at the neck.
We do think that Polis may be in for more of a challenge than he’s seen in prior years in the new CD-2–but if Republicans are serious about more than token opposition (or for that matter, opposition that doesn’t backfire), the challenge isn’t going to come from Lundberg.
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I bet your newletters are going to get even weirder now. Can’t wait.
Sen. Kevin Lundberg is a far-right conservative.
Rep. Joe Miklosi is a far-left liberal.
Why does Miklosi get the kid gloves, yet we are told to laugh at Lundberg? What’s the difference?
It’s a rhetorical question about bias, you don’t have to answer it.
of “far-left liberal” bills and statements from Miklosi that are remotely comparable to the list Pols provided for Lundberg?
It’s a rhetorical question about your skewed view of the political spectrum, you don’t have to answer it.
every post from AGOP is rhetorical and skip them all.
But while we’re on the subject of far-right, doesn’t Coffman qualify? After all, isn’t he the only member of the Colorado delegation in the Tea Party caucus?
Those are rhetorical questions about Coffman’s radical far-right record, you don’t have to answer them.
No, Coffman is not the only member of the Tea Party Caucus. Lamborn also belongs.
Great company for Coffman.
you should refer to it as Michele Bachmann’s Tea Party Caucus. Just to remove any doubt.
To answer your question, “stupid” is always funnier than “intelligent.”
You’re funny.
that was good
if you are from Salem, MA, circa 1692.
isn’t that doing a disservice to Scott “”I’m not saying (homosexuality) is the only sin that is out there. Obviously we have sin – we have murder, we have, we have all sorts of sin, we have adultery, and we don’t make laws making those legal, and we would never think to make murder legal.”” Renfroe?
When he held a press conference to say passing anti-discrimination law SB200 would cause the bible to be banned: http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=68542
Please Kevin, please – speaking for the people in CD2, we so want you to run!
I just don’t think Jared Polis has lived a good enough life to earn Kevin Lundberg as a primary opponent.
For all the Tea Party talk in local papers about the US being a “representative republic,” Kevin Lundberg has been THE WORST “representative” I’ve ever had, and I spent 6 years in Tancredo’s CD6.
The guy ignores constituent requests and embodies the philosophy that the “government that governs least, governs best,” by doing NOTHING but spew ideologically charged barbs at the Capitol and local meetings.
To wit, at a debate in 2010 Lundberg literally claimed that the only reason women “had” to work in America was an unfair tax code, and that if we could fix the tax code, women could go back to what they prefer to do, stay at home. That’s not a far-right conservative, that’s downright reactionary!
IF that’s the kind of “clear choice” Lundberg proposes to offer, I wish him luck with the 50% of his potential constituents who are hard working women, proud to support their families, and, for that matter, the other 50% who are glad to have women like that in their lives in these tough economic times.
Assuming Lundberg stays in the race, it won’t just be laughter! “Schadenfreude,” or joy at another’s misfortune, will the be the only word I know to describe it.