September 28, 2006 08:27 PM UTC

Republicans Fight Hard for State House

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• by: Colorado Pols

With the state senate all but a lost cause in 2006 for Republicans, attention has turned in recent weeks toward trying to pick up house seats in Colorado. Incumbent Rep. Bernie Buescher (HD-55, Grand Junction) has emerged as one of the top Republican targets, with eight negative pieces of mail already having been sent out and a plethora of TV time purchased to help elect Republican Bob Caskey.

Republicans are also heavily targeting Democratic Incumbents Gwyn Green (HD-23, Golden) and Jim Riesberg (HD-50, Greeley), in part because former legislators are running against them (Ramey Johnson and Dave Owen), and both seats could go either way in November.

On the pickup side, Democrats think they have a shot to take Joe Stengel’s former seat in HD-38 (Littleton) with Joe Rice, a former military man running against Republican Matt Dunn.