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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 05:35 PM
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Rutt Bridges drops out of Colorado governor's race
"The businessman and think tank founder says he doesn't think he has the stomach to be an effective politician."

What does that mean? Is it a code for having skeletons in his closet?


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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 05:45 PM
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1. Man, where do they get these names?
I'm sorry if this is a common name in Colorado, but "Rutt"? He must have been driven crazy in gradeschool.
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 06:54 PM
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4. I think that's a nickname.
Possibly short for Rutledge.
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 07:26 PM
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5. His full name is Samuel Rutt Bridges
He was born in Georgia. Moved here the same year I did - 1980. We are the same age. Oh, we were both in the petroleum seismic data processing business - he got rich, I didn't.
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Hawkeye-X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 05:45 PM
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2. Who's left?
Mike Miles?
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El Supremo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 05:55 PM
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3. I wish Joan Fitz-Gerald would run.
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DaveinMD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-11-05 09:05 PM
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6. I bet
Hickenlooper is about to get into this race.
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rockymountaindem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-13-05 03:42 PM
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8. I hope you're right.
That's been my hope for awhile. Hickenlooper would dominate, I think, and he'd make a good governor.
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Turn CO Blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 12:08 AM
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9. I agree.

Whether anybody wants to hear it or not, we need someone fiscally conservative for a few years to get the deficit under control, we need his business acumen to get the state revenues back up, and we need his liberal social views to counter that whole RWnut thing going on down in Colo Spgs and to turn education around in this state.
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DavidDvorkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-12-05 01:30 PM
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7. Ben Nighthorse Campbell is considering entering the race
Or so I read somewhere today.

I suppose he'd become the favorite, if he did run. Could end up as Campbell vs. Hickenlooper, which would be interesting.
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GardeningGal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-15-05 11:46 PM
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10. Oh good grief, I hope not
I thought Campbell left the Senate for health reasons. (Cancer if I remember correctly.) I do NOT want to see that man as governor.

:puke:
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DavidDvorkin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-16-05 02:44 PM
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11. I certainly agree with you
I think I read it on Taegan Goddard's Political Wire. Campbell was giving mixed signals, so no one knows what he'll actually do.

I wouldn't mind if he ran and lost to the Democratic candidate. That would make a nice payback.
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