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Colorado: Kaye Ferry

March 5, 2009 - 09:21 am
NEWS FEED: Colorado Independent

GOP mayor: State party chairman candidate is Eagle County’s Rush Limbaugh

By David O. Williams

If you ask Ron Wolfe, the Republican mayor of Avon, Tom Stone has played a major role in marginalizing his party in Eagle County, where there was a Democratic sweep in November and the GOP trails in voter registration for the first time in recent memory.

And as Republicans continue to take stock of their defeats nationally and locally, there’s debate over whether Stone, a Realtor and former county commissioner, would be a better GOP party chairman than Dick Wadhams.

“If anything, [Tom Stone is] the Rush Limbaugh of Eagle County,” Wolfe told the Colorado Independent Tuesday. “I don’t think Tom had a history here of working well with anyone who was anything but super-, super-conservative.

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Wed, 10/08/2008 - 21:24

Money, hard work propel Hasan in tight HD-56 race

By Jeremy Pelzer, PolitickerCO.com Reporter

If Ali Hasan defeats incumbent state Rep. Christine Scanlan (D-Dillon) next month in state House District 56, it won't be for a lack of money or work on his part.

Hasan, an independent filmmaker and son of multi-millionaire Republican fundraiser Malik Hasan, has dropped more than $258,000 of his own money on the race as of Sept. 24, and according to his campaign has knocked on more than 20,000 doors in the rural mountain district that has about 47,000 registered voters.

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