Reminder: Ken Buck Probably Running For Senate

It's not a maybe

After rumors circulating in Greeley about this (which sounded pretty crazy), and then an article in the Holyoake paper (not a week later), and then news from Alamosa that (Rhymes with) Buck was down there discussing economincs (huh?), the only thing we're waiting on is an FEC committee and a press conference in front of an ICE office.

The most important thing is for us to find a way to force Buck to resign his post as Weld County DA when he runs.  If I'm not mistaken, he has the option of a third term (in 2012) should he want it, thanks to a Weld County decision in 2007.  Anything else is silly, since Buck simply 1) doesn't have the juice to get elected statewide, and, 2) probably doesn't have the juice to win a primary (especially if Tancredo splits the racist votes with him).

It'll be a fun train wreck to watch though.  

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by: dlof @ Thu Mar 26, 2009 at 10:33:21 AM CDT

Weld County voted to allow the DA to serve a 3rd term?

I didn't know that.

Does Weld County make up the entirety of Buck's judicial district?

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by: Jambalaya @ Thu Mar 26, 2009 at 17:36:42 PM CDT

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3rd Term

Yep, we voted to allow county elected officials a 3rd term in 2007, stupidly allowing John Cooke (Sheriff) and Ken Buck to take 3rd terms.  And, yes, the 19th JD is all of Weld, and nothing else.

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by: dlof @ Thu Mar 26, 2009 at 18:16:06 PM CDT

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It is?

I didn't know that -- even Jeffco tacks on a couple tiny mountain counties to make a judicial district. Thanks for the info.

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by: RedGreen @ Thu Mar 26, 2009 at 18:17:25 PM CDT

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I see, thanks

I had thought Pueblo and Denver were the only wild-eyed folks who lifted the 2-term limit on DA's.

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by: Jambalaya @ Thu Mar 26, 2009 at 18:26:56 PM CDT

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amazing another damn lawyer

Do we really want another lawyer running for office.

I wish a business person with some real sense of life would run and then maybe we can get our country back on track

Even the liberal have started to figure out what a lawyer can do to us after there grave mistake of voting in Obama.

Neve though I would ever hear people saying what did I do, but we learn good things through big mistakes.

Amazing how stupid we are ..

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by: sdeaton @ Mon Mar 30, 2009 at 19:52:49 PM CDT

Amazing how stupid we are ..

Is that the royal "we"?

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by: RedGreen @ Tue Mar 31, 2009 at 00:08:40 AM CDT

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