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July 02, 2008 07:20 PM UTC

Ryan "Squeaky" Call New Colorado GOP Political Director

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Colorado GOP chairman Dick Wadhams announced today that he is hiring “wunderkind” operative Ryan Call (isn’t that what they called John Marshall?) as political director and counsel, presumably because Wadhams finally realized that he can’t collect every paycheck.

Call comes to the Colorado GOP on a “leave of absence” from the storied law firm of Atherton and Zakhem, where business was probably slowing anyway. Welcome to the gravy boat, says Dick.

Release follows.

Colorado GOP Hires Political Director

The Colorado GOP today announced the addition of Ryan Call who will serve the Party as Political Director and as In-House Legal Counsel.

“Ryan brings an incredible amount of experience both legal and in grassroots activism to our team,” said state GOP Chairman Dick Wadhams. “He will play a critical role in our efforts moving forward through to the 2008 general election.”

As Political Director and In-House Counsel, Call will be responsible for supporting county parties, and statewide campaigns.  He will also be responsible for the day-to-day legal and compliance needs of the Republican Party, and will be coordinating the Party’s legal strategy and poll-watching operations for Election Day.

“I am extremely pleased to be joining the GOP team,” Call said. “The Colorado Republican Party has done a great job in recruiting extremely competitive and talented slate of candidates across the board this year. I’m confident we will have a strong showing in November.”

In addition to his experience as an attorney and as Deputy Legal Counsel for the Republican Party, Call is in his second term as Vice-Chairman of the Denver County Republican Party.  Previously, he served for two years as the National Co-Chairman of the College Republican National Committee, and has worked on numerous statewide and local campaigns.  

Call has also served on numerous boards and commissions, including as a member of the Alumni Council at the Sturm College of Law at the University of Denver, and was appointed by Governor Owens to the Access to Justice Commission.  He also serves as a member of the Colorado Secretary of State’s Advisory Panels on Election and Campaign Finance Law, and is a member of the Colorado Lawyers Committee Election Law Taskforce.

“This is a critical election year, and Colorado voters may ultimately decide the outcome of the Presidential race and control of the United States Senate.  We have an exceptional and growing team of campaign staff and field operations, and I’m looking forward to doing my part to ensure a Colorado victory for John McCain, Bob Schaffer, and each of our Republican candidates,” Call said.  

Call is taking a leave of absence from the firm of Zakhem Atherton LLC to serve as Political Director and In-House Legal Counsel.  John Zakhem will continue to serve as outside counsel to the Republican Party.  Call will officially begin working for the Colorado GOP on July 15.

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22 thoughts on “Ryan “Squeaky” Call New Colorado GOP Political Director”

        1. Isn’t there a law against forcing employees into making political donations?  Or do you think his boss gave him the money?  

          I would think that Buescher would want to keep this donation under wraps.

          What will his Democrat base think when he is accepting donations from the Republican Party’s Political Director.  

          Sounds a bit odd.

            1. Enlighten me??  What’s the issue?

              You Dem’s sure have your fact checkers in gear.  The guy just accepted a position with the state party, and we already have people looking into his campaign donations on the SOS site and posting them here.

              Tell me, what is the issue you are after?  Or is it that you guys are so wrapped up in a game of gotcha that you can hardly see straight?

              You guys are the ones that hate FISA?  But your so good at it.

        2.    Wasn’t there a motion to censure or reprimand or something like that (a slap, or maybe a nudge) raised at a county assembly but defeated?

          1. Zakhem was censured at a state central committee meeting.  

            I find Ben Stein’s comment that the donation to Buescher was his bosses’ call.

            Wouldn’t that be a violation of law?

    1.    Isn’t John Zakhem the Republican lawyer while Sam was an ambassador to some Middle Eastern country during Daddy Bush’s administration, and more recently (in ’02), lost the C.D. 7 GOP primary to Both Ways?

      1. Sam (Samir) Zakhem is a former legislator who served as Ambassador to Bahrain and was in a four-or five-way primary that Beaupreaz won.  

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