Tipton, S Rep

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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">b<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">usinesswoman Lauren Boebert, who runs a gun-themed restaurant where servers openly carry firearms, has defeated Colorado Rep. Scott Tipton in a stunning upset in Tuesday’s Republican primary. With most votes counted, </span><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/6/30/1957207/-2020-Colorado-primary-results" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Boebert was leading</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> 54-46, </span><a title="" href="https://twitter.com/JesseAPaul/status/1278164707908583424" target="blank" rel="noopener" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">prompting Tipton to concede</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">.</span></font></div><div class="story-intro story-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">There was no reason to think the ultra-conservative congressman would have any issues winning renomination: Shortly after Boebert launched her campaign in December, Tipton <a href="https://www.coloradopolitics.com/quick-hits/trump-throws-support-behind-colorado-rep-scott-tipton-in-tweet/article_93348678-2384-11ea-9799-0ff6ba4596b8.html" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">earned a coveted Trump endorsement tweet</a>—usually more than enough to ward off any trouble. Like a classic Republican outsider, Boebert <a href="https://www.cpr.org/2020/06/22/rep-scott-tipton-faces-a-primary-challenger-who-questions-his-record-and-whether-hes-trump-enough/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">attacked the incumbent</a> for his supposed eagerness to compromise with Democrats and his allegedly insufficient loyalty to Trump, despite that tweet. And like a classic Republican outsider, <a href="https://www.fec.gov/data/elections/house/CO/03/2020/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">she raised almost no money</a>, just $133,000 to Tipton’s $1.1 million.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Boebert had a flare for capturing the attention of the media. Last year, <a href="https://denver.cbslocal.com/2019/09/20/beto-orourke-aurora-colorado-buyback-ar-15-ak-47-semi-automatic/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">she confronted Beto O’Rourke</a> at an event in Colorado during the former Texas congressman’s short-lived presidential bid. Challenging O’Rourke’s plan for a mandatory buyback of high-powered rifles, Boebert declared, “I was one of the gun owning Americans who heard you speak regarding your ‘Hell yes I’m going to take your AR-15s and AK-47s.’ Well, I’m here to say ‘Hell no you’re not.’” The encounter predictably <a href="https://foxwilmington.com/headlines/colorado-business-owner-who-challenged-beto-on-second-amendment-enters-gop-primary/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">garnered her an appearance</a> on “Fox & Friends.”</font></p></div><div class="row" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="col-sm-12" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><div class="story-body story-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">More recently, Boebert defied local and state health ordinances aimed at mitigating the spread of the coronavirus <a href="https://www.postindependent.com/news/in-continued-defiance-of-health-orders-shooters-grill-takes-dining-outside/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">to re-open her restaurant</a>, Shooters Grill, which is located in a town named Rifle (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rifle,Colorado" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">yes, really</a>). The authorities shut down the establishment, prompting a court fight that led to more headlines. Unsurprisingly, Boebert’s campaign was the only one in the state to tell the <em style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Colorado Sun</em> <a href="https://coloradosun.com/2020/06/30/coronavirus-election-night-watch-parties-coronavirus/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">that it would be hosting an in-person party</a> on election night</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">tipton had always presented himself as a fairly typical Republican and had never so much as struggled in a previous primary. Boebert’s promise to provide a purer strain of extremism—<a href="https://www.mediamatters.org/qanon-conspiracy-theory/here-are-qanon-supporters-running-congress-2020" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">she’s even embraced</a> the bonkers QAnon conspiracy theory—isn’t anything unusual. What stands out is that she was able to communicate her grievances with a large enough proportion of the primary electorate to actually get heard.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In that she may have been helped by Tipton’s apparent complacency: According to a Republican media buying firm, <a href="https://twitter.com/MediumBuying/status/1278143928651440128" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">he didn’t spend a penny</a> on the airwaves ahead of the primary and <a href="https://twitter.com/apblumenfeld/status/1278152602912317442" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">only resumed advertising on Facebook</a> after a long hiatus a week before the primary. Tipton’s largest expense, in fact, <a href="https://twitter.com/DKElections/status/1278151885703254017" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">was for fundraising consultants</a>. Boebert, meanwhile, <a href="https://twitter.com/AmplifyMedia/status/1278150769963909125" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">aired a TV ad</a> that accused Tipton of “teaming up with AOC and her squad to give Boulder a bailout” and siding with Nancy Pelosi “to give amnesty to millions of illegal immigrants.”</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>It’s a dispiriting end for Tipton, who arrived in Congress after an upset win of his own during the 2010 Republican wave</b>. Tipton had challenged Democratic Rep. John Salazar four years earlier but was <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=179268" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">crushed 62-38</a>. Though he won a seat in the state House seat two years later, Tipton looked like he’d be the underdog against Salazar during their rematch. But 2010 was a very different year, and <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=488404" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">Tipton unseated Salazar 50-46</a>. Democrats made several attempts to defeat him over the following decade, but Tipton always decisively won.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Yet while Boebert celebrates tonight (and helps spread the coronavirus), Republicans in D.C. will be shaking their heads in distress. Colorado’s 3rd Congressional District, covering a huge swath of the state from Pueblo to the Western Slope, is red but not implacably so: After voting for Mitt Romney <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/11/19/1163009/-Daily-Kos-Elections-presidential-results-by-congressional-district-for-the-2012-2008-elections" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">by a 52-46 margin</a>, it moved to the right four years ago, handing Trump a wider 52-40 win. But in 2018’s race for governor, <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_B8QCn7qHNicuQYUu85eEwThrxvg42XdvxSnzVcHJTM/edit#gid=658935586" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">it snapped back a considerable distance</a>, giving the Republican candidate just a 50-46 edge.</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px 0px 17px; padding: 0px; line-height: 1.8;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Despite that contraction, Tipton <a href="https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=833165" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">managed to fend off</a> Democrat Diane Mitsch Bush, a former state representative, by a slightly larger 52-44 spread that same year. But Mitsch Bush, who earned the Democratic nomination again on Tuesday by <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/06/30/1957207/-" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">decisively winning her own primary</a>, will now see increased interest in her candidacy, and with <a href="https://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00707638/1412795/" target="blank" style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; cursor: pointer;">almost $1 million raised so far</a> this cycle, she’s already proven herself a vastly superior fundraiser to Boebert. With Republicans already facing long odds to retake the House, Lauren Boebert just made them longer.</font></p></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><p style="line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">http://www.coloradoindependent.com/118394/website-alters-tipton-camp-quote-after-congressional-opponent-pace-jumps-on-it</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">tco also ~ fractivists</font>

<h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -6px; padding: 10px 10px 10px 14px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 41px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 546.766px; background: rgb(255, 255, 255); letter-spacing: -1px !important; display: block !important;"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">GOP Medicare troubles continue: Sham front group gives Tipton seniors award</font></b></h4>

<div class="author-date-social" style="margin: 0px 0px 0px -6px; padding: 8px 14px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 20px; vertical-align: baseline; width: 543px; position: relative; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="author" style="margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px; padding: 4px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><a href="http://www.coloradoindependent.com/author/johntomasic" style="text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none; transition: color 0.25s linear 0s;">John Tomasic</a></span>

<span class="calendar" style="margin: 0px 20px 0px 0px; padding: 4px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">December 09, 2011</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></font></div>

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<p style="margin: 0px 15px 5px 0px; padding: 5px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24.7px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Freshman Colorado Congressman Scott Tipton received an award recently for his work in support of senior citizens from a group called RetireSafe. Tipton was one of 20 Republicans elected to Congress from swing districts to have received the award, according to RollCall, but the award was fake, or at least the group that gave the award was fake.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.rollcall.com/issues/57_67/Seniors_Groups_Close_Ties_to_GOP_Industry-210650-1.html?zkPrintable=true" style="text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none; transition: color 0.25s linear 0s;">RetireSafe is an industry front group run by Republican and conservative politics figures</a>and founded by Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America to push policies that will boost industry profits.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It’s the kind of revelation that has become commonplace in today’s political news, where industry and government figures exchange revolving seats, yet it still has the power to shock in its details.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Local news reports and campaign advertisements trumpeted the awards…” RollCall writes, “providing these Republicans with valuable political cover for supporting controversial bills, such as the budget proposed by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that would have dramatically revamped Medicare.”</font></p>

<p style="margin: 0px 15px 5px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 21px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RetireSafe bills itself as a nonpartisan senior citizens advocacy organization, but it is led by former Bush and Reagan administration officials, small-government activists and pharmaceutical industry lobbyists and consultants. It is funded at least in part by the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, the drug industry’s chief lobbying group, and at times has served as a third-party entity to validate the industry’s agenda….</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The award, which sounds a lot like an endorsement that could come from one of dozens of other seniors groups, can then be used as a credential on the campaign trail.</font></p>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“While Scott Tipton stakes his political future on fake awards from front groups, Colorado seniors know he pushed a raw deal on them by trying to turn Medicare into a voucher program,” Inzeo wrote in an email. “Tipton can’t paper over the fact that he would hike seniors’ health care costs by over $6,000 a year, and this charade shows that lame attempts to hide the facts will quickly backfire.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tipton has made news in the short months since he took office for accusations of corruption and dirty tricks.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">He was<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.denverpost.com/politics/ci_18159605" style="text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none; transition: color 0.25s linear 0s;">investigated by and apologized to a House ethics committee</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>for pushing communication services through his offices for Broadnet, a company where his daughter worked as a lobbyist and where his nephew worked as CEO. More recently he was accused of<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20110929/NEWS02/709299930/0/s/Environmentalists-GOP-cry-dirty-politics" style="text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none; transition: color 0.25s linear 0s;">packing his town meetings</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>with Republicans and mining industry interests by sending out announcements of scheduled meetings to select email lists.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The RetireSafe seniors award shell game seemed to have worked on at least a small scale for Tipton, garnering a<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.gjsentinel.com/special_sections/articles/tiptons_bill_wins_kudos_from_g" style="text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none; transition: color 0.25s linear 0s;">brief spot in the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel</a>. The award presentation ceremony drew members of the Alzheimer’s Association and the Colorado Gerontological Society.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Sentinel piece:</font></p>

<p style="margin: 0px 15px 5px 0px; padding: 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 21px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; text-align: left;"><strong style="font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tipton’s bill wins kudos from group</font></strong>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Washington, D-C.-based organization that described itself as a watchdog for personal freedom and advocate for seniors on Social Security and Medicare recognized U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton, R-Colo., for sponsoring legislation to repeal a part of the new health care law.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Al Cors Jr., RetireSafe.org vice president, gave Tipton a plaque recognizing him for sponsoring legislation to repeal the Independent Payment Advisory Board, which has the task of reducing the growth of Medicare and is required to implement its first proposals in 2015.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RetireSafe.org, which says it represents more than 400,000 seniors, lists health, financial, national and personal security as a pyramid of goals supporting personal freedom.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Representatives of the Alzheimer’s Association and Colorado Gerontological Society attended the presentation.</font></p>

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<p style="margin: 0px 15px 5px 0px; padding: 5px 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 24.7px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; text-align: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According the Democratic Party Congressional Committee, the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.retiredamericans.org/" style="text-decoration: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; outline: none; transition: color 0.25s linear 0s;">Alliance for Retired Americans</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>on Friday alerted its members that RetireSafe was not to be trusted; it’s a “front group for the pharmaceutical industry” the group wrote in an email. AARP has issued a similar statement. Tipton could not be reached for comment.</font></p>

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<h3 style="margin: 0px; clear: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Committee Assignments: </font></h3>

<p style="line-height: 1.5em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="line-height: normal; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/cmteprofiles/overview.php?cmte=HAGR&cmteid=H02&cycle=2014" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none; outline: 0px;">Agriculture</a><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/cmteprofiles/overview.php?cmte=HRES&cmteid=H15&cycle=2014" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Natural Resources</a><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/cmteprofiles/overview.php?cmte=HSMA&cmteid=H18&cycle=2014" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Small Business</a></font></span></p>

<h2 class="ruleAbove" style="margin: 2em 0px 0.2em; clear: left; line-height: 24px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cycle Fundraising, 2013 - 2014, Campaign Cmte</font></h2>

<table id="summaryData" class="datadisplay" style=" border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236); width: 605px; border: 0px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><tbody><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td class="flatTableTitleA" style="font-weight: bold; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Raised:</font></td><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img src="/70ed9853-f865-59ed-bf96-738d4a11780f.gif"/> $525,562</font></td><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="spark" style=" margin-left: 10px;"><img src="/959935d6-ee92-5c29-a95e-e8be04c27514.gif"/></a></font></td></tr><tr><td class="flatTableTitleB" style="font-weight: bold; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: rgb(153, 153, 153); padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Spent:</font></td><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img src="/3091c165-fd49-58a8-8d0e-e14c973e02b4.gif"/> $179,877</font></td><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="spark" style=" margin-left: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img src="/286008cb-1e14-5a57-8684-61aa8084b8a7.gif"/> $482,231</font></td><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="spark" style=" margin-left: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img src="/da7d72c5-7c98-5da3-aaf3-d8cb550ef6b8.gif"/> $0</font></td><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><span class="spark" style=" margin-left: 10px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img brain="false" alt="" class="crpSpark" src="http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/include/drawSpark.php?a=0&y=2014&c=H&m=y&t=d" style=" border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); vertical-align: middle;" /></font></span></td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td class="flatTableTitleA" style="font-weight: bold; background-image: none; background-attachment: scroll; background-color: rgb(187, 187, 187); padding: 5px; vertical-align: top; background-position: 0px 0px; background-repeat: repeat;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Last Report:</font></td><td colspan="2" style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Monday, September 30, 2013</font></td></tr></tbody></table>

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</font><h2 style="margin: 2em 0px 0.2em; clear: left;"><a id="cont" name="cont" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Top 5 Contributors, 2013-2014, Campaign Cmte</font></a></h2>

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<table id="topContrib" class="datadisplay" style=" border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236); width: 605px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><thead><tr><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Contributor</font></th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total</font></th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indivs</font></th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PACs</font></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Anschutz Corp</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,400</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,400</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bancroft Investments</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,400</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,400</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Every Republican is Crucial PAC</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,000</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,000</font></td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Express Scripts</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,000</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$10,000</font></td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Fairfield & Woods</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$7,600</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$7,600</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr></tbody></table>

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</font><h2 style="margin: 2em 0px 0.2em; clear: left;"><a id="ind" name="ind" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> Top 5 Industries, 2013-2014, Campaign Cmte</font></a></h2>

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<table id="topIndus" class="datadisplay" style=" border-collapse: collapse; border-spacing: 0px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em; padding: 0px; background-color: rgb(224, 230, 236); width: 605px; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;"><thead><tr><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Industry</font></th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Total</font></th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Indivs</font></th><th style="padding: 3px; text-align: center; background-color: rgb(153, 153, 153);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">PACs</font></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Retired</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$49,400</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$49,400</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Oil & Gas</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$27,000</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$6,000</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$21,000</font></td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Misc Finance</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$26,200</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$26,200</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$0</font></td></tr><tr><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Securities & Investment</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$16,500</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$15,500</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$1,000</font></td></tr><tr style=" background-color: rgb(240, 243, 246);"><td style=" padding: 5px; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mining</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$16,200</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$7,700</font></td><td class="number" style=" padding: 5px; text-align: right; vertical-align: top;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">$8,500</font></td></tr></tbody></table>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ContributorTotalIndivsPACs</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Every Republican is Crucial PAC$35,000$0$35,000Associated Builders & Contractors$32,750$250$32,500Anschutz Corp$28,350$28,350$0Gmco Corp$27,400$27,400$0Sg Interests$25,700$25,700$0Fairfield & Woods$23,650$23,650$0Express Scripts$23,000$500$22,500Seakr Engineering$21,750$21,750$0Eaton Metal Products$21,600$21,600$0Land Title Guarantee Co$21,200$21,200$0Molson Coors Brewing$20,150$17,150$3,000Bartlit, Beck et al$20,099$20,099$0Moss Inc$19,750$19,750$0American Bankers Assn$19,000$0$19,000National Rural Electric Cooperative Assn$18,000$0$18,000Koch Industries$17,500$2,500$15,000National Auto Dealers Assn$17,500$0$17,500PETE PAC$17,500$0$17,500Vicki Lee Green Realtors$17,250$17,250$0Jobs, Economy & Budget Fund$17,000$0$17,000</font></div>

<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=W06" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Retired</a>$571,179<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=Q03" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Leadership PACs</a>$308,550<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=E01" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Oil & Gas</a>$242,566<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=F10" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Real Estate</a>$241,729<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=K01" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Lawyers/Law Firms</a>$146,567<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=F13" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Misc Finance</a>$139,300<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=C01" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">General Contractors</a>$123,288<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=F07" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Securities & Investment</a>$112,000<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=A06" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Livestock</a>$97,200<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=N01" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Food & Beverage</a>$79,450<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=H01" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Health Professionals</a>$79,208<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=Q01" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Republican/Conservative</a>$78,505<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=E07" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Misc Energy</a>$72,692<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=M02" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Automotive</a>$71,151<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=Q16" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Candidate Committees</a>$67,100<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=A01" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Crop Production & Basic Processing</a>$63,350<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=N15" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Misc Manufacturing & Distributing</a>$58,499<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=B02" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">TV/Movies/Music</a>$55,549<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=N02" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Beer, Wine & Liquor</a>$55,079<a href="http://www.opensecrets.org/industries/summary.php?cycle=All&ind=F03" style="background-color: transparent; text-decoration: none;">Commercial Banks</a>$55,050</font></div>

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<h1 class="entry-title" style="margin: 6px 0px 4px; line-height: 1.083em; font-weight: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tea Party Triumphs in Rural Colorado</font></h1>

<address class="byline author vcard" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 1.2em; margin-top: 2px; margin-bottom: 2px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">By <a href="http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/author/kirk-johnson/" class="url fn" title="See all posts by KIRK JOHNSON" style=" text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase;">KIRK JOHNSON</a></font></address>

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<p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.5em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">DENVER — Scott Tipton, a Republican businessman backed by the Tea Party movement, defeated a three-term Democrat incumbent, Representative John Salazar, in Colorado’s Third Congressional District.</font>

<b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The race drew national attention, and millions of dollars in outside money, partly for family reasons. Mr. Salazar, the older brother of Ken Salazar, the United States secretary of the interior, said he believed he was challenged partly because his loss would particularly embarrass the Obama administration.</font></b>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Tipton, 53, told voters that the race about choosing a candidate who was an independent voice for residents of the sprawling rural district. <span id="more-115549">He portrayed Mr. Salazar as captive to the Democratic majority in Washington and to Speaker Nancy Pelosi in particular, and he cited Mr. Salazar’s votes for the health care overhaul and the economic stimulus package.</span></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mr. Salazar defended both votes vigorously, saying the district, which has some of the highest poverty rates in Colorado, would benefit from the health care plan.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The district includes most of western Colorado and has a mix of Republican ranching communities, liberal areas like Aspen and culturally conservative cities like Pueblo that have large Hispanic populations and have historically supported Democrats. Pueblo’s votes this year were split.</font></p>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">... for instance, when Republican <a href="http://grimm.house.gov/" style=" text-decoration: none; outline: none;">Rep. Michael Grimm</a> was campaigning in 2010, he told a room full of voters that "the jury is obviously still out on [climate change]. We see nothing but conflicting reports from across the globe." In October, Grimm's Staten Island district was devastated by Hurricane Sandy, a storm that scientists agree was made worse by climate change. But he has stayed mum on the issue since Sandy hit. In the last Congress, Grimm voted against every climate-related bill on votes he was present for on the House floor.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Republican <a href="http://tipton.house.gov/" style=" text-decoration: none; outline: none;">Scott Tipton</a> of Western Colorado represents a region hard hit last year by wildfires, drought and high temperatures. He maintains that climate change is caused by natural variability, not human activities. "Here in the state of Colorado as our tree rings demonstrate, we've had droughts long before there were very many people here," Tipton <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2012/08/23/734181/scott-tipton-climate-change/" style=" text-decoration: none; outline: none;">told the blog ThinkProgress</a> last year.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Alaskan <a href="http://donyoung.house.gov/" style=" text-decoration: none; outline: none;">Rep. Don Young</a>, one of the House's most senior Republicans, has called global warming "the biggest scam since the Teapot Dome," referring to one of the most notorious bribery scandals in U.S. history. Young's state has warmed at twice the national average during the past 50 years. According to scientists, the permafrost underlying Alaska is melting and causing thousands of miles of road that lay on top of it to buckle and crack as it loses its form. Sections along the northwestern coast are eroding tens of feet per year, which has forced several coastal villages to be relocated. Melting glaciers are also causing dangerous flood surges toward major cities like Juneau, the <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/23/us/alaska-looks-for-answers-in-glaciers-summer-flood-surges.html" style=" text-decoration: none; outline: none;">New York Times</a> reported this month.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Neither Grimm, Tipton nor Young responded to requests for comment.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Scientists say that climate change is a major factor in the rise of more frequent and severe extreme weather. The trend will continue, they say, until governments make drastic greenhouse gas reductions.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Currently, the United States is in the midst of its most extensive drought since the 1930s. Tens of thousands of <a href="http://www.nifc.gov/fireInfo/nfn.htm" style=" text-decoration: none; outline: none;">wildfires</a> have charred millions of acres of land in the American West, and more than <a href="http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Climate-Disconnect-Report-Analysis-of-Record-High-Temperatures-2013-7-9.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; outline: none;">30,000 temperature records</a> were broken last year alone.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to a <a href="http://democrats.energycommerce.house.gov/sites/default/files/documents/Climate-Disconnect-Report-Analysis-of-Record-High-Temperatures-2013-7-9.pdf" style=" text-decoration: none; outline: none;">new report</a> by <a href="http://waxman.house.gov/" style=" text-decoration: none; outline: none;">Rep. Henry Waxman</a> (D-Calif.), one of Congress's staunchest proponents of climate policy, the 10 congressional districts that experienced the highest number of temperature records last year are represented by politicians who voted against climate-related policies 97 percent of the time during the last Congress.</font>

<strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A Different Response</font></strong>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">For Democrats, extreme weather events in their districts have prompted calls to action.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Months after taking office in 2009, Alaskan <a href="http://www.begich.senate.gov/public/" style=" text-decoration: none; outline: none;">Sen. Mark Begich</a>, a Democrat, took a handful of senators on a tour of Alaska to show them the damage being caused by global warming.  </font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Alaska is ground zero for climate change," Begich told InsideClimate News. "While some would rather debate the causes of climate change, I am focused on dealing with the very real impacts we see every day."</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, five senators from New Jersey, New York and Connecticut <a href="http://www.menendez.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/6-13-13%20Regional%20Climate%20Letter.pdf" target="_blank" style=" text-decoration: none; outline: none;">wrote a letter asking President Obama to make climate change a priority</a>, saying the superstorm that hit the region last October "brought home the increasing costs of global warming for millions of Americans."</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senate Majority Leader <a href="http://www.reid.senate.gov/" style=" text-decoration: none; outline: none;">Harry Reid</a>, a Democrat from Nevada, said last month that climate change is causing his state's disastrous wildfire season. "The West is being devastated by wildfires. Millions of acres are burning. Millions of acres have burned," <a href="http://www.reviewjournal.com/news/fire-rescue/reid-blames-climate-change-west-burning" target="_blank" style=" text-decoration: none; outline: none;">he told reporters</a>. "Why? Because the climate has changed. The winters are shorter; the summers are hotter; the moisture patterns have changed."</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">During the August congressional recess, several Democratic politicians will <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/dems-recess-game-plan-push-climate-message-94773.html" target="_blank" style=" outline: none;">try to build support for climate action by holding events in their districts</a> to show people how their communities will be affected as the world warms.  </font>

<strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Why So Skeptical?</font></strong>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The general public is already connecting the dots between weather extremes and global warming. </font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to a <a href="http://environment.yale.edu/climate-communication/article/extreme-weather-climate-preparedness" target="_blank" style=" text-decoration: none; outline: none;">2013 poll by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication</a>, 69 percent of Americans believe that climate change is affecting U.S. weather. As many as 72 percent believe global warming is making extreme weather events even worse....<a href="http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130801/gop-lawmakers-hit-weather-tragedies-stay-mum-climate-change?page=2" style="">http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130801/gop-lawmakers-hit-weather-tragedies-stay-mum-climate-change?page=2</a></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In the state of Colorado the following legislators are supposed members of ALEC</font></p>

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<li style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Robert Gardner (R-20)</font></li>

<li style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Cheri Gerou (R-25)</font></li>

<li style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Carole R. Murray (R-45)</font></li>

<li style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rep. Libby Szabo (R-27)</font></li>

<li style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Mark Waller (R-15)</font></li>

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<li style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. Randy Baumgardner (R-8)</font></li>

<li style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. Greg Brophy (R-1)</font></li>

<li style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. Bill Cadman (R-12)</font></li>

<li style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. Steve King (R-7)</font></li>

<li style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. Kent Lambert (R-9)</font></li>

<li style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. Kevin Lundberg (R-15)</font></li>

<li style=" margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. Scott W. Renfroe (R-13)</font></li>

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<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Cory Gardner R, U.S. House of Representatives</font></li>

<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Doug Lamborn R, U.S. House of Representatives</font></li>

<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ed Perlmutter D, U.S. House of Representatives (suspected mole for our side)</font></li>

<li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent;"><font size="4" style="" face="Times New Roman">Scott Tipton R, U.S. House of Representatives</font></li>

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