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Colorado: Karl Rove

March 5, 2009 - 01:29 pm
NEWS FEED: Colorado Independent

State party showdown: Rush Limbaugh-wannabe vs Rove 2.0

By Wendy Norris

While we’re introducing much of the state to little-known Colorado Republican Party chair candidate Tom Stone it makes sense to revisit our 2007 coverage of Dick Wadhams when he sought to ascend the GOP throne.

Now that Stone has been dubbed “Eagle County’s Rush Limbaugh” by a member of his own party, we’ll see how he matches up to Wadhams, the über-operative not-so-affectionately called “Karl Rove 2.0.”

Beating the Media Into Submission, Wadhams Style

While the local media trumpets the return of native son Dick Wadhams to Colorado politics, a review of his brutal slash-and-burn tactics against political journalists may have the state press corps clutching their fire-retardant underwear.

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January 26, 2009 - 09:09 pm
NEWS FEED: Colorado Independent

Disgraced Rove aide named top lobbyist for Focus on the Family

By Wendy Norris

Being a serial plagiarist may no longer be the professional equivalent of a hair shirt. Look at Vice President Joe Biden. Good thing for ex-Bush administration political operative Tim Goeglein too.

He’s been named the top Washington, D.C., lobbyist for Focus on the Family, according to a little-noticed “comings and goings” political column in the Fort Wayne, Ind., Journal Gazette.

Goeglein was personally recruited in 2001 by political mastermind Karl Rove to work in the Bush White House as chief liaison to conservative religious groups. There Goeglein rubbed elbows with some of the most powerful men in the evangelical movement — Focus on the Family’s James Dobson, Ralph Reed of the Christian Coalition, convicted Watergate felon Chuck Colson who runs Prison Fellowships Ministries and then-president of the National Association of Evangelicals Ted Haggard.

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Mon, 10/06/2008 - 18:01

Rove: Obama would win Colorado, presidency if election were held today

By Jeremy Pelzer, PolitickerCO.com Reporter

Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama would win Colorado - and the presidency -- if the election were held today, GOP strategist Karl Rove stated Monday on his Web site.

If the election were held today, Obama would win every state John Kerry won in 2004, while adding New Mexico (5 EV), Iowa (7 EV), and Colorado (9 EV) to his coalition," Rove wrote, citing the latest wave of state polls to be released in the past few days.

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Wed, 09/03/2008 - 18:44

Rove: Colorado one of three most important states in presidential race

By Jeremy Pelzer, PolitickerCO.com Reporter

 

[img_assist|nid=2217|title=Former Bush advisor Karl Rove|desc=Getty Images Photo|link=none|align=none|width=420|height=280]MINNEAPOLIS--Along with Ohio and Virginia, Colorado will be the state to watch for the U.S. presidential election this November, said former Bush administration official and GOP strategist Karl Rove on Wednesday.

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Wed, 09/03/2008 - 10:23

Rove: Obama needs but won't get rural Colorado

By Jeremy Pelzer, PolitickerCO.com Reporter

MINNEAPOLIS--Barack Obama will find it hard to win the rural voters he needs to capture Colorado's nine electoral votes this November, former Bush Administration official Karl Rove told reporters Wednesday morning.

Speaking outside the Republican National Convention Colorado delegation breakfast at the Four Points by Sheraton Minneapolis Hotel, Rove said Colorado was "changing in a way that (John McCain) has the ability to win" the state.

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Thu, 08/14/2008 - 16:06

Rove: Colorado one of four battleground states in presidential race

By Jeremy Pelzer, PolitickerCO.com Reporter

In the Wall Street Journal today, Karl Rove said Colorado is one of four battleground states in the 2008 presidential election.

Presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama, Rove said, will likely focus on picking up Virginia and -- especially -- Colorado, both of which have large numbers of white, college-educated voters -- a demographic that's been sympathetic to Obama.

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