Posted on 02/10/2007 8:08:36 AM PST by Clintonfatigued
A spokeswoman for presumed 2008 U.S. Senate candidate Scott McInnis said Tuesday the former congressman hopes to avoid a messy, divisive primary in the vein of 2006’s primary battle between Republican gubernatorial hopefuls Bob Beauprez and Marc Holtzman.
Susan Smith, a spokeswoman for the former Grand Junction congressman, said McInnis was hoping the party will unite behind his candidacy.
“The concern is that it would cause further damage to the party,” Smith said of a primary. “We want to learn from the past couple election cycles.”
McInnis, who has all but formally announced his candidacy, could find himself pitted against former Front Range Congressman Bob Schaffer, who told the Fort Collins Coloradoan last month that he has not ruled out a run for retiring Sen. Wayne Allard’s seat.
Schaffer, who ran for retiring Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell’s seat in 2004, lost to beer magnate Pete Coors in the Republican primary.
Smith said the McInnis camp is “working with party activists” to ensure that there will not be a divisive primary for Republicans while the Democratic candidate, presumably Rep. Mark Udall, D-Colo., sits on the sidelines unscathed like Gov. Bill Ritter did last year.
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I am hopeful about this race. Hopefully, the voters will be tiring of the state's DemocRAT legislature by 2008.
"Are they credible enough for a challenger to cite them as concerns for him being electable or are they just little known Democratic mudslinging talking points?"
As far as I know, they are the latter. McInnis was very popular in his district when he represented it.
Republicans need to function as a team. If they don't, '08 will be ugly in Colorado and many other states.
Lets hope so.
Even though both were Congressmen, McInnis is much better known and my guess is would beat Shaffer handily.
It still ticks me off, though, that McInnis refused to run when he could have held Campbell's Senate seat for us.
I agree. Your statement is a clue into McInnis' mind set. He's in the game for McInnis.
Regards,
TS
I agree.
I think that McInnis is better known only because he was a congressman more recently than Bob. Shaffer will make up that name recognition in a real hurry. The question that I have is who is going to run for Udall's 2nd district seat while he runs for the Senate?
Regards,
TS
Regards,
TS
Scott McInnis could have won the governor job too.
I don't know much about McInnis and his "ethical history".
Excellent point.
I still think Colorado is basically a red state, but we've been very poorly served by our leadership the last decade.
Pete Coors ran a terrible race.
He apparently never met with nor did any campaign photo-ops with Campbell.
Owens was awful. We both know the list.
Beauprez should have stayed as a congressman...
We are being invaded by many lefties from Mexico, California, etc... which is hurting us.
The DUmmies in the state houses with their union bill may help us if we do not shoot ourselves in the foot again.
True, in hindsight. Who knew two years ago Holtzman would run attack ads against a fellow Republican worse than what the Dems usually run?? Or that after a solid performance in 2004, 2006 would be such a bad year across the board.
In Colorado, we really need to figure out how to raise enough 527 money to counter what a few super-rich Dems have been doing to us.
Not hindsight with Beauprez .
Holtzman would not listen either.
Sad for us and for Colorado.
The outside campaign money is really hurting us.
Scott would be good but he does not like DC for many reasons; thus he likely will not want to travel back as our senator.
Scott never wanted to live in DC.
He slept in his office, got up early to exercise, then shower in the house gym and go to work.
He would work late, speak on the floor thru c-span, then crash in the office...
He tried to be back in his district and with his family as much as possible.
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