April 15, 2010 07:25 AM UTC

Jane Norton shows lack of backbone in 2010 as she did in 2004 (Schaffer endorsement)

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• by: NatalieP

Jane Norton may have many fine qualities for the U.S. Senate but her petitioning on the ballot is drawing the same kind of negative response from those Republicans who believe in the Assembly process, the same kind of negative responses as did Doug Lamborn’s campaign in 2008 when as an incumbent he petitioned on the ballot.  Norton’s swarmy, self-serving email on her reasons for withdrawing from the Assembly, her feigned “outsider” status, rile me up enough to jump back in with a diary after long periods of just lurking here.  She has no backbone nor did she when in 2004 she . . .  

had endorsed Bob Schaffer, as I recall, for the U.S. Senate.  When Pete Coors jumped in the race, as I recall, she then switched her endorsement to Coors.  No matter what anyone thinks of Bob Schaffer, good, bad or indifferent, if Jane Norton did as I recall, she simply demonstrated that when big money interests like Coors were involved, instead of keeping her word, continuing her endorsement of Schaffer, she knuckled under pressure.  That’s not the kind of person who’ll stand up to lobbyists in DC.  Not in my opinion.  That’s the kind of person who has no backbone.  That’s the kind of person who will go along to get along instead of standing up to do what’s right.  Her petitioning on the ballot is just plain wrong.  She stood in front of the El Paso County Assembly this past week.  That’s an honor that should be reserved for those who plan to also go before the State Assembly instead of petitioning on.  While I was undecided beforehand on who to vote for for Republican for U.S. Senate, with my recollection of her 2004 weakness, her failure to stay true to her endorsement of Bob Schaffer (and if I’m wrong on that, someone correct me, please), but, most especially, her oily reasoning for petitioning on the ballot tells me she’s not got the craw to stand up for Republican principles in the general election.  Ken Buck didn’t win my support.  Jane Norton gave my support to him.