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UPDATE: from reporter Mike Saccone’s interview with Schaffer on Kurdish oil contracts: We told you this was coming. As the Grand Junction Sentinel reports, reprinted in today’s Rocky Mountain News: An oil contract Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer helped negotiate in Iraqi Kurdistan is one of several production deals the U.S. State Department has […]

A few weeks ago, opponents attacked Senate candidate Bob Schaffer for his rare distinction of being one of a very few members of Congress who both voted for the Iraq war, then went on to profit from it directly as an employee of Aspect Energy negotiating oil development contracts with the Kurdish Regional Government in […]

Colorado GOP chairman Dick Wadhams announced today that he is hiring “wunderkind” operative Ryan Call (isn’t that what they called John Marshall?) as political director and counsel, presumably because Wadhams finally realized that he can’t collect every paycheck. Call comes to the Colorado GOP on a “leave of absence” from the storied law firm of […]

As State 38 writes: So we know that Bob Schaffer thinks all mountains look the same.  His geographical gaffe led to a great attack ad by the DSCC and one of my favorite quotes of this campaign cycle.  From the Anchorage mayor’s spokeswoman: “While Alaskans can understand why Bob Schaffer would promote our beautiful mountain, […]

The Denver Post follows up on yesterday’s sentencing of Scott Shires, GOP campaign operative and longtime associate of Senate candidate Bob Schaffer for his role in the defrauding of the federal government as part of convicted businessman William Orr’s National Alternative Fuels Foundation. Specifically, the Post questioned Schaffer campaign manager Dick Wadhams’ previous denial that […]