Race to fill Udall's seat attracts big money

[davidinalameda]

http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20080203/NEWS/951350707

SUMMIT COUNTY — Democratic candidates in the race to succeed Mark Udall as Summit County’s congressional representative are having no problems raising money.

With three candidates generating more than $700,000 in contributions each, the contest for Colorado’s 2nd congressional District seat is among the most expensive primaries in the nation for an open seat in the 2008 election, according to the “Congressional Quarterly.” Year-end campaign contribution reports were filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) Thursday.

Democrats have represented the district, which includes Summit, Eagle, Grand, and Clear Creek counties, along with most of the city of Boulder and parts of several other Front Range counties, since 1975. Rep. Udall, the district’s congressman for the past nine years, is now seeking the U.S. Senate seat of retiring Republican Sen. Wayne Allard.

The three leading candidates for Udall’s seat — former Colorado state Senate President Joan Fitz-Gerald, former Great Outdoors Colorado executive director Wayne Shafroth, and former Colorado Board of Education member Jared Polis — all consider themselves liberal Democrats, and finance filings suggest the three possess comparable fundraising skills.

Jared Polis is gay and he's been the subject of hateful attacks by Fitz-Gerald supporters

[saltpoint]

1. They all sound overwhelmingly superior to that no-good straw-brained

Wayne Allard.

I'm not going to miss Sen. Allard one iota.

Keep us posted on this one.

[momophile]

2. Have Fitz-Gerald's hateful attacks been about his

sexuality? I haven't heard this and I'd like to see them if that's so before Tuesday.

[ForRusty]

3. Does his chances appear to be good? When is the primary election date in Colorado? nt

[Touchdown]

4. Tomorrow, Super Tuesday.

It's a caucus, so anything's possible.:shrug:

I've talked to Fitzgerald. She's been in the State House for awhile. This doesn't sound like her. She is very popular with labor/working people.

[Touchdown]

5. Hateful attacks like what?

What context or what was said. I haven't heard anything. I get too many robo-calls to answer the phone.

Obamas off my list since his robot called on Sunday (BIG fuck up!:grr: ).

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6. Found the controversy. Polis sounds like 1st class scum.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=142x6491

Gay or not, taking money from Swift Boaters is cause to wipe him off my list.