August 01, 2012 07:18 AM UTC

President Obama appearing in GJ

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• by: ClubTwitty

UPDATED: Pres. Obama in Grand Junction next Wednesday, August 8.  Massachusetts Governor and Vulture Venture Capitalist ‘Private Equity Executive’ Mitt Romney will be in Basalt tomorrow

The Grand Junction Sentinel is reporting

Source: Obama coming to GJ

The Grand Junction Sentinel updated story indicates the President will be in GJ next Wednesday, August 8.  

The Western Slope will be the center of presidential politics for two weeks with President Barack Obama visiting Grand Junction on Aug. 8 and his likely Republican opponent, Mitt Romney, visiting Basalt on Thursday.

Obama will make his third visit to Grand Junction next week, just a month after a third visit to the Western Slope by Romney in a conference of Republican governors at Basalt High School on Thursday. Doors open for the event at 2 p.m.

No details about the president’s Aug. 8 visit were announced, but it will be the second of Obama’s presidency.

The facts around Mr. Romney’s visit in Basalt tomorrow are scrambled in the Gary Harmon story…tomorrow, next week, a month ago, it is not clear from the word salad that somehow made it past an editor, but a separate story in the Aspen Daily News states that former Massachusetts Governor (and then pro-choice, pro-healthcare-mandate Mr. Romney) will be in the Roaring Fork valley tomorrow.  

Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney will be in the Roaring Fork Valley later this week, with a public appearance scheduled at Basalt High School.

Romney will join other Republican governors at the event on Thursday. Doors open at 2 p.m. and it is a free event open to the public. Romney is scheduled to speak beginning at 3:50 p.m.

GOP governors Chris Christie (R-NJ), Nikki Haley (R-SC), Bobby Jindal (R-La.), Bob McDonnell (R-Va.) and Scott Walker (R-Wisc.) are scheduled to speak at the Aspen Institute this evening. It’s unknown if all or some of them will join Romney on Thursday, and whether Romney will arrive in Aspen today.

My guess is that a lot of folks in the Thompson Divide area want to find out which side he is on: does he support local initiatives, area ranchers and Colorado communities or will he side with a billionaire-owned privately held oil company from Texas? I would not be surprised to see a welcoming party…