December 04, 2006 07:32 PM UTC

It's All About the Fish, Man

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• by: Colorado Pols

If Sen. Wayne Allard runs for re-election – and nobody really expects that he will – it will be all about the fish. As The Denver Post reports, Allard still isn’t saying if he’s going to give it another go:

U.S. Sen. Wayne Allard won’t yet answer the biggest question in Colorado politics: whether he ll seek a third term in 2008. But he offers an interesting hint of how he d campaign.

Asked what he has accomplished in a decade in the Senate, Allard doesn t talk first about how he led the attempt to ban same-sex marriage, or how he pushed for billions of dollars for research into a missile-defense system, or how he pressed to improve the U.S. Air Force Academy s handling of sex-assault accusations.

He wants people to know he protected endangered fish.

“When I first got into politics, I never knew that I would be in a position to get that much accomplished as far as improving the environment,” he said.