October 19, 2007 06:51 PM UTC

Obama for America, Colorado Headquarters!

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• by: ColObama

Obama Opens Campaign Office in Colorado

DENVER – “We’re taking this state seriously and we’re going to win here in Colorado,” said National Campaign Co-Chairman Federico Pena.
Pena, who is both a former Denver Mayor and Washington two-time Cabinet Secretary, was on hand Thursday night to help open the first candidate campaign office in the state.

“Kerry could have won Colorado in the last presidential election, had his people sent staffers and money into the state, but they didn’t and the rest is history. He lost a state that he could have won, we’re not going to take the same chance.”

Ray Riveria, who is serving as the State Director for the campaign, says Barack Obama is doing things right.

“He is the leading fund raiser of all candidates with $76 million in his campaign chest, and more than $1.6 million alone in Colorado.
But what is most amazing, is that $21 million has come form people giving $200 or less. And just to make sense of it all, so far more than 350,000 citizens have given to Obama.”

To date, 10 states now have campaign offices. And when Nevada opens it’s headquarters in a couple of days, that will mean five states in the “red west” have Obama offices open. (California, Idaho, Arizona, and Colorado)

The office is located at 1029 Santa Fe in Denver.

What’s your opinion? Is Federico Pena’s assessments correct, that if previous Democratic Campaigns had taken the west seriously, the elections would have turned out differently?