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CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(R) Marshall Dawson
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July 26, 2012 08:44 PM UTC
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stopping the Dems from fielding a candidate. The vacancy committee still has time to appoint someone, if I’m not mistaken.
Good luck. This will have to be pretty bad indeed for it to matter a bit.
In a red district, even with a good scandal time is always against us.
But I was thinking about it more from a hypothetical perspective. A candidate could still emerge, but that doesn’t make that person likely to win.
was in May
Someone had told me that it was August.
Do tell.
that deadline is right about the end of May, beginning of June.
However, there is still a little time left for a Dem to jump in as a write-in.
that Republicans named a candidate to run against Steadman just this week?
It’s not too uncommon for parties to nominate a straw candidate and then later, when they find a real candidate, have the straw candidate withdraw and replace with the new one. More with downballot races, though. (I’ve seen it happen in JD races…)
Unless there’s a loophole I don’t know about, I’m with Dan on the deadline.
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(ACP is a major party at least until 2014)
and my deadline to put someone in a race initially was up in May.
http://www.sos.state.co.us/pub…
I have had 3 candidates withdraw, after initially filing the slots. I filled 2 of them with someone else. I can still backfill the third position.
I didn’t field candidates in 2 races at all, and candidates in 2 other races were disqualified. After May, I cannot fill any of them.
looks like state candidates had to be selected by Assemblies by 14 April, and their paperwork turned in to the SOS within 4 days.
So, if I am reading the calendar correctly, the deadline was 18 April.
That’s to get a candidate in the Primary.
If a race was not filled there, then it couldn’t be filled later.
If a candidate got signed up for the Primary, then withdrew, the vacancy committee can still put someone else in that race.
Pretty poor “reporting”, Ashby sites an email that makes up the bulk of his story and fails to tell the reader who wrote it? Really?
The author of the email seems to be making some sort of threat. How can he or she conclude that a candidate with no real clear opposition till November is all washed up already?
This whole thing smells to high heaven – can we say political gamesmanship?
I recall when our DA was fired from the DA’s office shortly before taking the position as Mesa County DA. There is long standing precedent here. The Democrat DA fired the Rep DA shortly before he took office as the new DA.
The city of Fruita was already threatening Mr. Wright before they decided to apparently trump up some bogus reason to get rid of him.
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news…
In Mesa County everyone knows that Fruita has very liberal people in charge of city government. The City Attorney (Ed Sands) is a big time donor to the Democratic Party and candidates like Bernie Buescher. This is all public record.
I smell politics here at the most base level.
I love the newb “disinterested party.” I’ve seen a lot of them.
Thanks for the warm welcome.
All those “DA”s give it a danceable flow.
I write music in my spare time.
It was news to me that Fruita has very liberal people in charge of city government. The outgoing mayor is a reasonable Republican, but maybe that’s the definition of very liberal these days. And Bernie Buescher does not live in Fruita, although the district he represented did include Fruita. Bernie got elected because he had a long history as a businessman in Grand Junction; not many Democrats have the same credentials as Bernie had. I know I didn’t.
That is supposed to mean Welcome to Fruita. The city has been trying to market to the beatnick crowd.
The Fruita City Council voted down the offer from a marketer to use WTF. The city is not using that slogan, although I believe a few businesses are.
Clint Kinney – the city manager has been pushing it.
Link:
http://www.daveallgood.com/hom…
First, it wasn’t written by Charles Ashby, who would never have missed the fact that there is a Libertarian in the race.
If you want to peak under the hood of the goings on at the DEM Party, I can tell you that I worked very hard to get a candidate in this race. There were two that I almost dragged over the line–one is a retired dentist, the other a retired Air Force officer. Both would have been great candidates, but running in a district like Mesa isn’t easy.
It is really hard to get up every morning in 100 degree heat and knock on doors knowing that most of the people you talk to are not going to be on your team. Been there. Done that.
The linked story says
Thanks–we’re used to the interesting stories coming from Ashby, we guess.
Much news on this today, too. If any of our local experts want to summarize, that would be great, otherwise we can a little later today.
I’m hoping Duke is up for summarizing. I’m a little distracted these days. I start my chemo on Monday, and I’m trying to get everything buttoned down around the house before my energy levels crash.
I am sorry to say. I know Junk Town Junket seems to know something about it and I would bet money that American Patriot has his own slant.
I will ask around this weekend and see if I come up with something newsworthy. I think Ralphies’ blog might heat up with this story pretty soon as well.