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Colorado Senate President Running Against Cory Gardner
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | RP Jul 06, 2011 06:47pm |
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| Category | Announcement |
| Author | Kyle Trygstad |
| News Date | Wednesday, July 6, 2011 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | State Senate President Brandon Shaffer (D) will challenge freshman Rep. Cory Gardner (R) next year in Colorado’s 4th district.
Shaffer, an attorney and former Naval officer, announced his plans Monday at a small Fourth of July barbecue with friends and family in Longmont. He will file his candidacy paperwork Tuesday with the Federal Election Commission.
“Our current representative is a politician who has spent much of his career in Washington D.C. as an attorney and Congressman,” Shaffer said in a statement. “Somewhere along the line, he lost his way. Supporting a plan that would end Medicare as we know it was part of a prevailing wind blowing in the wrong direction. Colorado needs a compass in Congress, not a weather vane.”
Shaffer’s candidacy had been expected for some time. He briefly ran for the seat in the 2008 cycle but stepped aside in deference to ex-Rep. Betsy Markey (D), who lost her re-election bid in 2010. |
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