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October 03, 2013 12:55 PM UTC

Mike Kopp Pushes GOP Gubernatorial Primary Field Rightward

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  • by: Colorado Pols
Former Sen. Mike Kopp (R).
Former Sen. Mike Kopp (R).

It isn't breaking news, but lost in the busy cycle this week was the story that former Colorado Senate Minority Leader Mike Kopp has filed to run for Governor–further crowding a GOP primary field already including Secretary of State Scott Gessler, former Rep. Tom Tancredo, and state Sen. Greg Brophy. As FOX 31's Eli Stokols reported late Tuesday:

FOX31 Denver reported last week that Kopp was all but certain to run in a story also reporting Arapahoe County District Attorney George Brauchler, tasked with prosecuting a death penalty case against Aurora theater gunman James Holmes next year, is unlikely to be able to run.

Kopp, who resigned his seat in 2011 after his wife and mother of the couple’s four children died from cancer, is now an executive with Intermountain Rural Electric Association.

The group was one of the most outspoken opponents to the state’s new renewable energy mandate for REAs passed by Democrats and signed by Hickenlooper earlier this year.

Notwithstanding the focus Kopp would logically have on energy issues, it's not going to be easy differentiating himself from the pack in this already-crowded field. For the purposes of winning a Republican primary, we expect Kopp to run hard to the right–no small feat running against contenders like Tancredo and Brophy. But as this blast-from-the-past mailer from 2006 should make clear, he's not one to shy away from the crazy:

koppflyer

This primary is going to rock, folks.

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19 thoughts on “Mike Kopp Pushes GOP Gubernatorial Primary Field Rightward

  1. Wasn't Kopp one of the clowns who went to Arizona to learn about their awesome anti-immigrant laws?

    I hope Kopp and Tancredo travel the state on an alienating Hispanics road tour. Best and brightest, GOP!

  2. The graphic on Kopp's ad is an image from a 2006 school protest about immigration rights in Pico Rivera , California, and apparently happened at Montebello High School in Whittier, California.

    Various rumors said that it was from Montbello High School in Denver. No such thing ever happened at Montbello High School in Denver, (I worked there at the time), although Peter Boyles and various right wing talk show hosts claimed that it did. The hysterical right wing email includes a photo of some apparently Latino kids holding a Mexican flag proudly, which happens at every Cinco do Mayo or September 16 in any high school with a substantial Latino population in the United States.

    So Mike Kopp is expecting voters to vote for him because he's against what some students in California did seven years ago. Awesome. 

     

  3. Off subject but why am I getting a male gamers only ad?  I'm not male and my husband doesn't play any computer or video games either.  Anybody else get this one? I usually get ads for things like petite clothing and shoes.

    1. Nothing there – but a friend of mine who has never admitted to voting for a Democrat in his entire 30 years of voting [only gives money to R's] just got a call on his cell asking for a "yes" or "no" regarding whether he agreed with the Boehner's position on the shutdown.   His answer wouldnt' be one that pleased the RNC. When you lose guys like this, the bus is teetering on the edge of the cliff.

    2. Perhaps the NSA knows more about your husband than you do, BC . . . ???

      (Like BS said above, "may be best not to ask questions like that.")

      1. Not likely. The computer is in a room  we're both in and out of, he has trouble staying up watching sports past 9:30 PM and I'm the one who remembers to clean up cookies and browser history after a late check in on the computer.  He's mainly into music related stuff. If anybody in the house could have a secret computer life it would be me. 

        Now the ad I've got on the right side of this page is Norton security stuff. That's more like it.  

        Speaking of NSA, my brother and sister-in-law got furloughed from their jobs there. They're retired math professors whose jobs have to do with codes and stuff. Guess they were non-essential. Like my niece, they're daughter (the egg head branch of the family and not really genetically related to me), who got furloughed from a pretty high level job at NIH. Hers has to do with figuring out profiles for drugs to treat specific illnesses. Bio-technological sciency stuff.  Who needs that?  

        It's a little inconvenient for my niece since she just found a house and is a first time buyer and she's hoping being out of a job indefinitely won't stop the mortgage from going through. 

        But, according to Fox, my family must not exist because they say no one is being affected. I guess government tit sucking federal employees aren't real people. I must have dreamed them.

        1. I get ads for going back to school and I'm closer to Medicare age than school age.

          My daughter's Repub boyfriend (who told me he likes Paul Ryan and was flabbergasted when I said I liked him too–great gift to Democrats, almost as good as Sarah Palin) has a dad, a mom and stepmom all working for the government on IOUs because they're critical employees.  He said we need to learn not to borrow beyond our means as a country.  And that is why it's okay for his parents to work for free for awhile. 

          When enlightened self interest can't show you how wrong something is, you're pretty brainwashed. 

          1. Oh man. Just the thought of having to listen to your daughter's repub boy friend makes me cringe.

            Finger nails down a blackboard, and you have to be nice.

            To a point.

            Here's hoping she sees the same hypocritical thinking you do.

          2. Are we talking teenagers, I hope?  If so, hormones are everything and  teenagers generally have a few boyfriends ahead of them before making any serious life decisions. If not, if she's an adult, here's hoping your daughter comes to her senses.  There are plenty of very attractive men who are also smarter than your average toaster out there.

            1. They're grown unfortunately. The boyfriend tries to derail my daughter who's not very politically interested.  But when she was voting for POTUS, I asked her if she was gonna vote for the guy who wants to take her birth control away.   And she asked how do I vote for Obama again?  I think there's hope for the future.

    3. I'm looking at the same ad, (actually, ignoring it) right now, BC. I don't understand it either. I am female and have never played an on-line video game in my life. I've even been trying to figure out how to remove that feature from my FB page. 

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