July 08, 2009 07:22 PM UTC

Rumors Swirl of Penry Staff Hires

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• by: Colorado Pols

The conversations started by word that spread yesterday of soon-to-be gubernatorial candidate Josh Penry’s official announcement, scheduled for Saturday are no longer focused on whether he’s going to run (which hasn’t been a question for months). Now, everybody is talking about who he is hiring for key campaign positions. Jeremy Pelzer of the Rocky Mountain Independent wrote on his blog yesterday:

Though Penry (R-Grand Junction) has stayed mum up until now about speculation that he would seek to topple incumbent Gov. Bill Ritter (D), several Republicans have said over the past few weeks that Penry will enter the gubernatorial race and has been looking to hire staff.

Which is consistent with what we’ve heard. Word is that some of the senior staff choices have already been made, we’ll get you names as quickly as possible. Some of them, we can tentatively say, will be names you’ll recognize from previous high-profile Republican campaigns.

We tried really hard not to bait that last sentence overly. Did we succeed?