On Primary Day two weeks ago, Weld County D.A. Ken Buck had just defeated former Lt. Gov. Jane Norton to win the GOP nomination to face Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet in the general election. Buck campaign consultant Walt Klein gave a short speech to the crowd at the victory party in Loveland and then climbed down from the stage onto the floor, smiling and shaking hands. Klein has been working Colorado Republican electoral politics for 30 years and was basking in the hard-fought success of this latest campaign.Klein said he has been lucky to work for talented politicians but he clearly played a major role in the race against Jane Norton. The victory is the product of a highly focused incremental strategy designed to build grassroots support on the road. That was all Klein, who took charge as soon as he came on board with the campaign in May 2009.
Buck had already spent weeks in April sending out semi-announcements suggesting he was planning to run while apparently struggling to put a team together. When Klein came on in May he said he immediately put Buck to work on the stump. – More -
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