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CO-Sen: Buck sez climate change is "the greatest hoax"

In Ken Buck's first uttered comments after that whole gay=alcoholism debacle, he put his foot in it again.

The Coloradoan reports that after the meeting with supporters in Fort Collins, CO, Buck was heading to a fundraiser featuring Sen. James Inhofe (R-OK).

"Sen. Inhofe was the first person to stand...

CO-Sen: "Buyer’s Remorse"

Women's Voices Women Vote Action Fund has a powerful new ad hitting Colorado's airwaves, reminding voters just how bad Buck is in his attitude toward women.

WVWV says it's "high six-figure multi-media campaign" that will appear on cable and broadcast television, as well as on radio and online. ColoradoPols says, this...

CO-Sen: Bob Barr blasts Buck

Uber-conservative Bob Barr, former US Attorney and member of the U.S. House and current member on the NRA board of directors, has a serious problem with Ken Buck.

When an assistant federal prosecutor is reprimanded by the Department of Justice for improperly disclosing internal government deliberations about a pending case to a...

Polling and Political Wrap, 10/19/10

Amid rain, thunder, and lightning here in SoCal (a phenomenon we see in this part of the state about once every other year), there is also no small amount of turbulence on the polling front. No small amount of volume, either, as we head north of the half century mark yet again. The final tally...

CO-Sen: Buck doubles down on "buyer’s remorse"

You know how Ken Buck told a young woman that he wasn't going to prosecute in her rape case because to him it actually seemed more like a case of "buyer's remorse"? Well, Buck is standing by his decision to not prosecute -- and he's still saying it seemed like the victim merely had...

CO-Sen: Ken Buck thinks that being gay is a lot like being an alcoholic

The good new is, Ken Buck doesn't think being gay is, in and of itself, a disease. But he does think that it's a choice ... and he compares it to alcoholism.

Watch:

GREGORY: In a debate last month, you expressed your support for don’t ask, don’t tell,...

Polling and Political Wrap, 10/16/10

On a day when lovely Southern California has weather more indigenous to the great Northwest (read: drizzly, gray and 60 degrees), it is a mixed day on the polling front. While one of two of the bad boys listed therein will brighten the day of Democrats, while others bear a clear resemblance to a towering...

CO-Sen: Victim in 2005 rape case says Buck’s refusal to prosecute based on "stereotypes"

The woman who has made GOP senatorial candidate Ken Buck's political life more difficult this week spoke with the Colorado Independent about her interaction with Buck when she tried to get an explanation from him on his refusal to prosecute.

"I represented something he didn’t like,” said the victim, who didn’t wish...

CO-Sen: Ken Buck wants to privatize the CDC

This almost slipped by in the story about how Ken Buck's refusal to prosecute and admitted rapist, but Steve Benen caught it: to the numerous things Ken Buck thinks should be privatized (including Social Security and VA hospitals), add the Centers for Disease Control.

But if we're inclined to draw lines...

CO-Sen: Ken Buck’s other prosecutor problem

The DSCC has released this ad in the Colorado Senate race.

This story first broke in the primary, when Buck's opponent, Jane Norton, raised it. A decade ago, Buck was a federal prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney’s Office and left his job "after the U.S. attorney rebuked him for bad-mouthing a...

CO-Sen: Suspect in 2005 rape case Buck refused to prosecute admitted culpability

We've chronicled the treatment a rape victim received at the hands of Ken Buck when she went to him, as Weld County prosecutor, to plead that he prosecute her case. Among other things, he told her that he thought she just had "buyer's remorse" and that she essentially asked for it by inviting...

CO-Sen: Buck didn’t prosecute rape case because he believed victim had abortion

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One of the reasons Colorado GOP Senate nominee Ken Buck declined to prosecute the rape of a 21-year-old college student in 2005 was that he believed she had previously had an abortion of a child fathered by the suspect. According to Buck, that abortion gave the victim motive...

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