Welcome to your weekend open thread. It looks to be a beautiful weekend and Earl was kind of a bust. Do you have travel plans for Labor Day?
I know we’ve been talking a lot about the nasty Delaware Senate primary, but in Colorado the governor’s race on the GOP side is really nasty. The GOP is trying to force their candidate Dick Maes (of abortion bike fame) out of the race after a series of credibility-damaging stories have come out.
Top Colorado Republicans are attempting to convince gubernatorial nominee Dan Maes to drop his bid for governor by the end of Friday, a well-placed Republican in the state tells POLITICO.
In a meeting Friday morning, party chairman Dick Wadhams and other members of the state GOP executive committee met with Maes to present what one called “damaging evidence” that hasn’t yet been made public but would further erode his standing as a candidate, according to the source.
A second Republican consultant confirmed the account and said while there was no explicit ultimatum presented by the chairman to Maes, the message was clear.
“It was: Do you really want to put your family through this? If you stay in the race, you’ll have to endure this and this,” said the Republican, citing potential reports by the Denver Post.
Crazy Tom Tancredo is running as a Constitution Party candidate and has been urging Maes to drop out. I imagine at this point even plagiarist Scott McInnis is starting to look good. Yesterday was the last day for someone to withdraw (in CO) and have their name taken off the ballot. It’s being reported that Maes refused. So now even if Maes is convinced to drop his bid, his name will still appear on the ballot in November.
If the NRSC wants to paint Oregon Senator Ron Wyden as an out of touch D.C. Democrat, they’re gonna have to try harder.
“Despite his claims that he is ‘like Oregon,’ it’s clear from Ron Wyden’s record that he has simply lost touch with his constituents during his 14 years in Washington,” reads a recent NRSC press release. “Senator Wyden is a career politician who has championed a reckless economic agenda that has driven our national debt to a staggering $13 trillion and failed to create jobs as the Evergreen State’s unemployment has skyrocketed to 10.6 percent.”
The Evergreen state is Washington. Wyden represents Oregon. You know, proofreading something one more time is never a bad idea. Oopsie!