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House and Senate races heat up in Colorado
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Several interesting developments in the last few days of the Betsy Markey-Marilyn Musgrave congressional race in the 4th District, as well as the race between Bob Schaffer and Mark Udall for Colorado's vacant US Senate seat:
*Musgrave has run a new ad declaring that Markey faces possible prison time for... I don't even know what. The criminal complaint was filed by Musgrave's own district party chair, the same guy who filed a completely baseless criminal complaint against Musgrave's 2006 opponent. Unbelievable. Wait, never mind, it's actually very believable. Musgrave is a (barely) female version of Karl Rove.
*Musgrave recently canceled an interview with KBDI's Colorado Decides when the show refused to replace analyst Eric Sonderman, whom the Musgrave campaign calls a "Democratic consultant."
*Moments before their October 16th debate on Channel 7, Bob Schaffer and Mark Udall had an apparent misunderstanding as to whether or not notes would be allowed. Schaffer all but accuses Channel 7 producer Jeff Harris of sandbagging him, countering Harris's point that Udall was under the impression that notes were not allowed and would therefore be at a disadvantage, with "and you must have thought of that, I imagine." Seriously, what a weasel Bob Schaffer is. Udall finally stepped in and settled things, asserting, "I think this is a test of your wits; it's a test of what you have in your head. If Bob needs to have a few notes with him, fine. Let's go, let's debate." It was his best moment of the entire campaign.
*Rumors about the GOP giving up on Schaffer have turned out to be false, and the National Republican Senate Committee has released a new ad attacking Udall for fudging his own voting record.
