Stand
up for your beliefs, right? If you are a conservative in a
right-of-center state like Colorado, that should be simple enough. "The
truth will make you free," as it is written in the Bible.
Of course, in politics, that is a lot easier said than done, as Joe Coors, Republican candidate for Congress in Colorado's 7th congressional district, is now finding out. The former president of CoorTek and great-grandson of Coors Brewing founder Adolph Coors is discovering that getting his conservative message to the voters of his north and west Denver congressional district is expensive and challenging. The challenge is mostly coming from a liberal incumbent, Democrat Ed Perlmutter, who walks and talks like a moderate, at least when he is in Colorado. Perlmutter also has rich friends from the far left who are happy to come to Colorado and spend their money on ads that attack Joe Coors.
Since the beginning of September, Nancy Pelosi's House Majority PAC, the government unions AFSCME and SEIU, and a Planned Parenthood-funded PAC have funneled a total of over $2 million worth of negative ads and mailers in the district, accusing Joe Coors of everything from being an outsourcer of jobs to being -- gasp! -- a "one-percenter." The FEC website literally shows pages and pages of outside groups coming to this Colorado district to occasionally praise Perlmutter, but mostly to trash Joe Coors.
The ad war in Coors' Denver district has been so lopsided that one local pundit has speculated that the money spent here may have diverted negative ad money away from neighboring races, possibly saving the campaigns of Republicans Scott Tipton (Colorado's 3rd) and Mike Coffman (Colorado's 6th).
Of course, in politics, that is a lot easier said than done, as Joe Coors, Republican candidate for Congress in Colorado's 7th congressional district, is now finding out. The former president of CoorTek and great-grandson of Coors Brewing founder Adolph Coors is discovering that getting his conservative message to the voters of his north and west Denver congressional district is expensive and challenging. The challenge is mostly coming from a liberal incumbent, Democrat Ed Perlmutter, who walks and talks like a moderate, at least when he is in Colorado. Perlmutter also has rich friends from the far left who are happy to come to Colorado and spend their money on ads that attack Joe Coors.
Since the beginning of September, Nancy Pelosi's House Majority PAC, the government unions AFSCME and SEIU, and a Planned Parenthood-funded PAC have funneled a total of over $2 million worth of negative ads and mailers in the district, accusing Joe Coors of everything from being an outsourcer of jobs to being -- gasp! -- a "one-percenter." The FEC website literally shows pages and pages of outside groups coming to this Colorado district to occasionally praise Perlmutter, but mostly to trash Joe Coors.
The ad war in Coors' Denver district has been so lopsided that one local pundit has speculated that the money spent here may have diverted negative ad money away from neighboring races, possibly saving the campaigns of Republicans Scott Tipton (Colorado's 3rd) and Mike Coffman (Colorado's 6th).
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