Tag: Dick Wadhams
Schaffer-Udall senate race roundup
Republican Senate candidate Bob Schaffer plans to hit the trail this week after taking a break from campaigning while his wife, Maureen, underwent surgery to remove a benign tumor on her auditory nerve, the Rocky's Lynn Bartels reports.
Democrats look to Rocky Mountain West for victory
Nearly a year ago, Dick Wadhams, the chairman of the Republican Party of Colorado, stood at a window inside the Denver Center for Performing Arts. He was gazing out, at the sparkling nighttime panoramic of downtown Denver.
“I’m just looking out — out there at the Pepsi Center — and thinking about next August,” Wadhams said, turning up a sardonic grin, “when the Democrats nominate Hillary Clinton as their candidate for president.”
Wadhams is the spinmeister once dubbed “Karl Rove 2.0” for his hardball campaign tactics. He had returned home to Colorado just months before, following the stunning Macaca moment and defeat of his candidate, then-Virginia Sen. George Allen.
Dick Wadhams, Wally Stealey trade barbs over 527s at Vail water...
Colorado Republican State Chairman Dick Wadhams sparred with influential lobbyist Wally Stealey in Vail Friday over the negative campaigning of independent political committees, campaign finance reform and the disaffection of voters with their respective political parties.
Schaffer to strut “cold, dead political carcass” at water confab
Bob Schaffer will have the chance tomorrow to further distance himself from John McCain's disastrous suggestion to "renegotiate" the Colorado River Compact when he joins Mark Udall at the Colorado Water Congress Summer Convention in Vail. The two Senate candidates are scheduled to address water policy and take questions from water movers and shakers at 11 a.m. at the Vail Marriott Mountain Resort.
Slip-ups mar Bob Schaffer
It’s hard to imagine a worse kickoff to a political campaign. For Republican Bob Schaffer, formerly the self-described “Conservative Colorado Congressman” who currently is...
Slip-ups mar Bob Schaffer
It’s hard to imagine a worse kickoff to a political campaign. For Republican Bob Schaffer, formerly the self-described “Conservative Colorado Congressman” who currently is...
U.S. Senate Candidate’s Roan Position in Locomotion
It's all over the news and blogs: According to campaign manager Dick Wadhams, Republican U.S. Senate hopeful Bob Schaffer backs Gov. Bill Ritter's plan...
Rocky Promises Doozy, Delivers Snoozy
Someone call 911! The Rocky Mountain News appears to be experiencing a 3-, maybe 4-alarm fire after obtaining a memo in which a Democratic...
Lamborn’s Latest Follies Include Mice, Mining And His Own Party
It's gotta be a sad day when the head of your own political party publicly doubts your brainpower. On Thursday the Preble's jumping mouse...
Hush, Hush and on the QT: Republicans in Dilemmas; Democrats in...
Blue elephants and red money have ignited controversies in the backdrop of the 2008 elections. And if you looked up in the sky, is...