As the Pueblo Chieftain reports, Wednesday is a big day for normally sleepy Alamosa. Adams State University hosts the first debate matchup that night between GOP freshman incumbent CD-3 Rep. Scott Tipton, and challenger Sal Pace of Pueblo, a state representative. We expect many questions about this race–still considered the biggest congressional pickup opportunity for Democrats in Colorado, though GOP Rep. Mike Coffman’s CD-6 race against Joe Miklosi is increasingly on the radar–to either be answered at this debate, or at least clarified.
The first: can Tipton, whose oratorical skills have not (to put it mildly) been a strong point during his term in office, survive two hours against his energetic and well-spoken challenger?
Tipton, a freshman Republican from Cortez, is a solid supporter of the House GOP agenda in his first 18 months in office. As promised, he’s repeatedly voted to repeal the Affordable Care Act, voted to extend the decade-old tax cuts approved during President George W. Bush’s administration and voted to repeal the Dodd-Frank regulations that are intended to rein in Wall Street abuses.“I wasn’t in Washington to create these problems,” Tipton told a largely Republican audience in Pueblo a week ago. “But I’m doing my best to solve them.” Pace, a two-term Democratic lawmaker from Pueblo, sees those same issues differently. He charges that Tipton and other House Republicans are protecting the wealthy from paying a higher share of taxes and intend to privatize Medicare in the future.
He sent out a list of major legislation Friday that remains undone, including not renewing the Farm Bill or extending a federal tax credit for Vestas and other wind-power producers.
A poll follows.
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Word is that Scott will have some zingers of his own for Rep. Sal Pace (D-Urination).
just keep hitting Sal on public urination. If you can get his unlikes up it doesn’t matter what people think of the incumbent. Sal had better be more than ready to redirect any such personal attacks back at Tipton or he’s toast.
the country is running along just fine and there aren’t any real problems to discuss. The audience at Adams State just wants to hear about pissing.
Like the burglary charge in college.
pissing it is ! It can be just like high school president.
every single day this year, often more than once. Why have a yard if not to pee in it?
Scott Tipton out debated John Salazar two years ago in a highly publicized Pueblo forum.
They both have baggage Sal’s being quite a bit heavier having been arrested no less than three times. But, if Sal can put Tipton on the defensive he can have some great ammo for future TV spots