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November 03, 2006 05:10 AM UTC

Legislative Ladies Nearing Finish Line

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Democrat operatives are all smiles over what they consider to be a completely wasted pile of money attacking Rep. Buffie McFadyen (HD-47), who seems to have weathered the Trailhead Group’s onslaught as well or better than any other D–criminal complaint or no.

Rep. Morgan Carroll (HD-36) has also been campaigning very hard the last few weeks, running as if she didn’t have a virtually non-existent opponent. Challenger Brian Boney dropped out of the race in the spring under mysterious circumstances, though his name went on the ticket anyway–Republicans didn’t want the seat to go formally unoppposed.

Things aren’t so sunny for the Dems in HD-29, however, where observers are now predicting a close Affie Ellis win over incumbent Debbie Benefield on Election Day unless something changes significantly. The Dems knew this would be a tough seat to hold to begin with, and a combination of the energetic (and photogenic) Affie Ellis with generous quantities of Bruce Benson’s money may be too much to contend with.

The Ellis win is very important to the Republicans, we hear, she being a key member of the hand-picked Owens Legacy Team. If she gets in we expect she’ll be going places, along with her frequently-promoted Owens wunderkind husband Dennis Ellis. If she loses, well, she’s just another Jessica Peck Corry.

The fight over HD-1 is wrapping up, where embattled Democrat Jeanne Labuda is talking confidently about Election Day. Opponent Aimee Rathburn fought hard with solid 527 backup, but there numbers were never really with her and the “Blue Ghetto” residents of HD-1 (just down the street from Columbine High School) have been successully put off Rathburn by strategic hits on her gun lobbying record.

And for those of you itching to tell us how ‘offensive’ this recap of (mostly) hot-legislator gossip is, don’t bother. We’ll get to both genders over the next few days, even the Ken “The Mullet” Chlouber fashion freakshows. We learned in marketing class that pretty girls move product. We didn’t start it, that’s just the way it is.

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  2. I think Angela Engel might pull off an upset against Republican Spencer Swalm in HD37. She has received good press from the local papers, done very well in the 4 debates, and her team has hit every precinct in the district. And to top it all off, she has made effective use of technology. For example, Angela has used YouTube to host videos of her debate and a campaign video.

    Here is the campaign video: YouTube version and embedded in the campaign website.

    1.   I remember Paula Busey who busted her ass six years ago running against Lauri Clapp (who makes Spencer Swalm look like a prize) in H.D. 37 only to come up short on election night. 
        I definitely would like to see Angela win, but I wouldn’t count on it.

      1. I’m hoping that this year is different for a number of reasons:
        1. Spencer Swalm and Betty Ann Habig had a very bitter primary
        2. A lot of Republicans are supporting Angela (check out her Republicans for Angela page)
        3. The 4 debates really illustrated the differences between the two (Angela is a 15 year children’s advocate that wants to make education a priority, but also has innovative ideas in the area of health care and economic development; Spencer is a health insurance salesman)
        4. A lot of people are turned off by a 15 year health insurance salesman that says patients need to better understand the cost of health care and that HSAs will solve our health insurance crisis
        5. Finally… the final 96 hours of GOTV. Angela is doing a lit drop with 5000 pieces (and some DVDs!). There are also MANY volunteers lined up to phone bank and canvass from now until the election.

        Only time will tell, but I’m keeping my fingers crossed!

  3. “where observers are now predicting…”
    And we know how observant those observers can be.

    Oddly, predictors are observing the opposite, and the predictors observe a slight Benefield lead. Now who will we believe?

    I have no clue about that race, but I suspect the observers and predictors don’t have one either.

    My favorite version of this was an old tabloid headline “Experts say Titanic Found on Moon!”
    I always wanted to know how to become an expert on something like that.

  5. I swore ten years ago when I changed my registration from Republican to Democrat because I was horrified by the behavior of the Republican Party in the state after neocon strong-arming (remember when the Exec Committee was locked out of HQs so they couldn’t act on violations of the Bylaws when Ownesistas improperly used Party funds to interfere in primaries to try to get rid of moderate office-holders?). I swore I would not vote for a Republican ever again.

    BUT, Labuda’s confidence notwithstanding, I can’t think of a worse representative for HD1. I attended her “performance” at the Southwest Homeowners Associations candidate forum. It is not surprising that she has been kept away from public speaking ever since. Particularly on water issues, Labuda came off as a total idiot, talking about how we can’t send our water to Wyoming, and how she will work against that. Say what?

    Rathburn is a moderate, and the Labuda campaign has tried again and again to portray her unfairly as a gun nut. (She is s top national ladies sport shooting champion, and the wife of a police officer.) Not only that, but she takes thoughtful, research-based positions on the issues. I may not agree with her on every issue, but I think she will listen to people (as I have observed she always has in her 20 years of Southwest Denver neighborhood activism), and will make reasoned decisions.

    Rathburn knocked on my door (though I am not a Republican) and discussed the issues with me. Other than dropping unsolicited signs in our neighborhood, Labuda has not been seen here. Rathburn said she is tallking to everyone she can, and doesn’t care what party affiliation is. Because of it, there are Rathburn signs right along with Ritter signs on many Democrats’ lawns. I can respect that.

    Due to the number of campaign dirty tricks and campaign funding irregularities (and violations of the spirit of the election law), I just can’t bring myself to poke the ballot box for Labuda. I don’t know yet if I will vote for Rathburn, but I just can’t vote for Labuda. She has simply caused too much divisiveness in HD1. She has additionally made untrue and misleading statements about her own experience, on her campaign materials.

    Virtually no one from the district shows up at her campaign events, and if she wants to know why, she need only look in the mirror.

    1. about Anna Lord in HD-21, except it’s a Democrat running in Republican country. Her opponent, Bob Gardner, sounds like a better public speaker than Labuda. But when you go to Fremont County and tell people that economic growth in Colorado Springs means good things for them, they look for that second head. She knocked on Republican doors and listened and I have not even heard of campaign events for her opponent (mayber he was too busy as Ed Jones’ regostered agent). My favorite is the Anna Lord sign next to a Gardner sign in the same lawn (and both residents are Republicans). There are also cases for Lord/Suthers and Lord/Hybil lawns

      1. Yes, Rockefeller, many things get said about the Democratic candidate for HD21–by her husband, who tries to post as if he isn’t her husband.  Have a little honesty yourself, Rockefeller.  After all, a lack of honesty seems to be one of your big beefs with the Republican Party.

        1. I try, to the maximum possible, to leave bias out of it to the maximum possible. I try to be accurate – not a complete cheerleader. I would hope that the accuracy of the statements is not slanted by proximity – it is what I strive for. If you have trouble with either accuracy or tone, please call me on it.

  6. I hope Paula Noonan beats that Krackpot Kopp in SD22. He ran a sleazy campaign against Kiki Traylor, refusing to debate then running robo ads and hate mail slandering her and accusing her of being in with the homosexual lobby.
    Then he did the same thing in the general election, refusing to debate Noonan (because the League of Women Voters were too liberal), then accusing her of being in with the cross dressers, homosexuals and abortionists.
    What does this guy have against women?
    Does he maybe have a little issue there?
    In light of Ted Haggard’s debacle, maybe we should be asking this of Kopp.
    Maybe he has a reason (other than hiding a conviction for bad check writing) for refusing to appear at a debate with all those women there. Of course we don’t know, because he’s too chicken to stand up in front of his constituents and talk about his convictions (oops!), his positions on issues.
    Here is a guy who was living in another state when the Columbine incident occurred, and he wants us to let him represent us? He quits a job in New Mexico to move to Arizona, then quits a job there to come here, won’t stand up in public against either of his female opponents, and he wants us to trust him with a senate seat?
    Right. (FAR RIGHT)

  8. I hope for her sake she wins the election. Is she loses, she becomes just another pretty face…thrown on the Jessica Peck Corry pile.  Maybe she can brush off that poli sci degree or law degree, or maybe she can use her experience as as the Director of Congressional and Public Affairs in the US Department of Interior to help her bag a job at a Clinique counter in Macy’s.  It must be hell to have a pretty face and limited post election prospects….

  9. Jessica Peck Corey is no discard.  She’s currently a first year law student at DU on a fellowship, writing for The Denver Post and working on the Amendment 44 campoaign. She has a bright future.

    1. Both of these women are extremely intelligent and face excellent careers. Their early runs for office show the type of courage that will set them on a course of contribution and accomplishment.

      We certainly haven’t seen the last of either no matter what happens Tuesday.

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