It’s the nicest thing resident provacateur Karen Crummy has written in years.
She’s serving coffee to constituents and holding “listening sessions.”
A staunch conservative, she is criticizing the president and having her photo taken with Democratic Rep. Mark Udall.
Bipartisanship has emerged as a favorite buzzword.
Welcome to the new Marilyn Musgrave…
“It’s a clearly calculated, born-again political image,” said John Straayer, political-science professor at Colorado State University, which is in Musgrave’s 4th Congressional District.
So far Musgrave’s new image hasn’t translated into votes. During the current Congress, she’s voted with her party 96 percent of the time, according to a vote database on WashingtonPost.com.
That makes some sense, considering voter registration in her district is generally 40 percent Republican, 25 percent Democratic and 34 percent unaffiliated. And no Democrat has won the seat in 25 years.
But even with the Republican edge, Musgrave has had to fight off Democrats to keep her seat since first elected in 2002…
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Just wanted to correct one fact in the story line. No Democrat has won the 4th CD in 37 years, not 25 years. The last one was Congressman Wayne Aspinall (D-Palisade) in 1970. Jim Johnson (R-Ft. Collins) won the seat in 1972; Hank Brown (R – Greeley) succeded Johnson in 1980; Wayne Allard (R-Loveland) succeded him in 1990; Bob Schaeffer succeded him in 1996; and, of course, Marilyn Musgrave won in 2002 and has served since then.
If Palisade was in the 4th, obviously the boundaries and constituents have changed a lot..as we might expect.
Yes, your correct, the boundaries of the 4th CD have changed drastically over the decades. After the 1970 census, the district spanned the northern half of Colorado from Kansas to Utah. The southern boundary of the district included Mesa, Garfield, Eagle, Summit, Gilpin, Clear Creek, Larimer, part of Adams, Morgan, Washington and Yuma counties. After the 1980 census, the district became an Eastern Plains district that encompasses most of the eastern half of Colorado with urban areas in Larimer County, northeastern Boulder County (including Longmont), Weld County, eastern Adams and eastern Arapahoe counties.
I remember when it had one area code and when it got 970, everyone when beserk.
You certainly know your stuff. I’m impressed
A Republican changes their image and it’s being “born again”. A Democratic does it, and they’re flip-flopping and disingenous. How rediculous. So much for a liberal media.
Twenty years behind the times and facing a financial crisis the minds behind the Post think that FOX has the magic formula. The fact that the Post is looking to cable TV rather than the blogosphere for clues should send a cold chill down th backs of its hareholders.
That’s a good stock to put a put on…or is it a call? I always get those confused…
Sometimes hitting all the keys is about all I can manage.
Another MSM article “reporting” on a politician’s image control and confusing it the reality of that politician.
is she still accepting endorsements from the KKK?
a piece of gay rights legislation with Barney Frank or Tammy Baldwin, then I’ll buy it.
Until then, it is still just putting lipstick on a pig…figuratively, of course….
I like pigs, and would never insult them by comparing them to Marilyn Musgrave.
I had some friends who had a Pot-bellied pig as a pet. His name was Hamlet. Hamlet was a very smart little pig, and I have no doubt would be a better representative in congress than is Ms. Musgrave…with or without lipstick.