Not a Good Couple of Weeks for Peggy Lamm

[coloradodem2005]

It hasn't been a good couple of weeks for Peggy Lamm, one of two announced candidates for congress in CD-7.

Lamm faced the first public attack of the campaign last week when she was criticized in an open letter from Bill Thiebaut, the Pueblo District Attorney and former Lt. Governor candidate, for allegedly supporting Republican Bill Owens in 2002 instead of Democrat Rollie Heath (and Thiebaut). The attack was less of a concern than the laughable way in which she responded, which was an early indicator of how she might respond to future attacks.

Now comes word that Lamm has gotten a cool early response from EMILYs List, the powerful Democratic fundraising arm that takes on the cause of Democratic women candidates in big races around the country. Lamm had apparently assumed that support would be forthcoming from EMILYs List, but was recently told by some senior staff members that their support was not an entitlement and needed to be earned -- which wasn't what she expected to hear.

Officials with EMILYs List were critical of Lamm's reportedly tepid early fundraising efforts, her scattered message, and her top-heavy campaign team (who didn't do much to prepare her for the aforementioned initial attack). EMILYs List plans to announce soon its early list of candidates that it will support in 2006, and unless Lamm dramatically increases her fundraising in the next week or two, she is not expected to be on that first list.

Lamm can always be added to the list at a later point, but if she had been counting on EMILYs List for support (and we hear that officials were privately turned off that she thought she would be an automatic addition) she's going to have to do a lot of the heavy lifting on her own before it happens

http://coloradopoliticalnews.blogs.com/colorado_political_news/2005/05/not_a_good_coup.html#more

[autorank]

1. Do you support her?

Funy story, the little glass on the smiley at the bottom of the post was at the bottom of my screen, barely visible. As it went up and down, I was convinced that there was a bug in my laptop screen since I'd been outside. I shook the sucker a couple of times and realized it was a graphic.

:hi: Coloradodem2005

[coloradodem2005]

2. For supporting Owens, absolutely not.

Though, I don't live in that district.

[autorank]

3. Cool. Owens is a weasel! Too well dressed, too neat...

I'll take a Brian Schewitzer for Gov any time.

[coloradodem2005]

4. Who?

[autorank]

5. Gjov. of Montana, Populist Dem

:hi: