June 17, 2009 03:22 AM UTC

The Hill: GOP aims at Mountain West House seats

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• by: BobMoore

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

The Hill has an article up Tuesday on the GOP targeting Mountain West House seats in 2010, banking on voter backlash against increased government spending. The CO4 seat currently held by freshman Democrat Betsy Markey is mentioned prominently.

You can see the article here: http://thehill.com/campaign-20…

State Rep. Cory Gardner of Yuma is quoted extensively.

“It is anger. There is an outright hostility toward the spending taking place in Washington, D.C.,” Gardner said.

You can check out some additional thoughts on my Coloradoan blog here: http://tr.im/oJnh

Neither Markey nor Tom Lucero, the other announced GOP candidate in CO4, are interviewed for the story. As I noted in my Coloradoan blog, Gardner appears to be getting a lot more ink (or pixels) from the D.C. scribes than Lucero or Diggs Brown. I wonder if that’s the result of good legwork on his part, or the NRCC pushing reporters his way.