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Colorado GOP Chairman Quits: 'I'm Tired Of The Nuts'
Colorado Republican Party Chair Dick Wadhams
Colorado Republican Party Chairman Dick Wadhams dropped his reelection bid on Monday, and fired some parting shots at the Tea Party and the hard-line conservatives he thinks are hurting the party's electoral success.
"I have tired of those who are obsessed with seeing conspiracies around every corner and who have terribly misguided notions of what the role of the state party is while saying 'uniting conservatives' is all that is needed to win competitive races across the state," Wadhams wrote in a memo to the Colorado Republican State Central Committee obtained by The Denver Post.
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CO-GOV
Dan Maes Disaster Could Leave The Colorado GOP A Minor Party
Dan Maes (R), candidate for Colorado governor
Colorado Republican gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes' disaster of a 2010 campaign could turn into a four-year embarrassment for state Republicans. It's been one blunder after another for Maes since he barely won the August 10 primary over former Rep. Scott McInnis, whose campaign was done in by a plagiarism scandal. But if Maes fails to get 10 percent of the vote on election day, his legacy won't be the U.N. bike plot warning or the tall tale of working undercover as a cop in Kansas. It will be leaving Republicans with minor party status in Colorado until 2014.
After weeks of declines in the polls, the TPM Poll Average now shows Maes coming in at 9.3%.
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CO-GOV
Dick Wadhams: From Rising GOP Star To Struggling CO Party Chair
Colorado Republican Party Chair Dick Wadhams
Meet Dick Wadhams, the Colorado Republican state party chair and the man trying to deal with Colorado's Republican Senate and gubernatorial candidates' recent gaffapalooza.
You may remember Wadhams. He made a name for himself by helping John Thune upset then-minority leader Tom Daschle in 2004. He managed successful campaigns for Sen. Wayne Allard and Gov. Bill Owens in Colorado, and Conrad Burns in Montana. In 2005, Slate dubbed him Karl Rove's "heir apparent."
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CO-GOV
Tom Tancredo Gets Into Screaming Match With Colorado GOP Chair (AUDIO)
Colorado Republican Party Chair Dick Wadhams and former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO)
Former Rep. Tom Tancredo (R-CO) just announced his bid for governor on a third party ticket today, and he's already facing pushback from the state Republican head, Dick Wadhams. And by pushback, we mean screaming match.
On Peter Boyles KHOW radio show, Tancredo and Wadhams got into a shouting match over Tancredo's decision to run, with Wadhams arguing that Tancredo is "ensuring" that the Democratic candidate, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, will win.
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