Voicemail posted of Tancredo’s campaign inviting Maes to negotiate

A voicemail has surfaced in which Bay Buchanan, Tom Tancredo's campaign manager, can be heard inviting Dan Maes to come to the negotiating table, apparently contradicting the Tancredo campaign's statements this week that they have not been looking to make a deal to get the embattled GOP nominee to quit the governor's race.

The recorded voicemail was sent to Joe Harrington of Highlands Ranch, a Maes confidant, who posted a video of himself playing the voicemail on Facebook Thursday morning.

"Tom is within four points of Hickenlooper," Buchanan says in the message, which was sent at 12:56 p.m. last Friday. "It's the time. He's got to find somebody he trusts to talk to us, somebody who he trusts their word.

"Give me a call if you're interested. I won't bother you any more if you guys aren't, but the time is now. The time is absolutely now."

Harrington posted the voicemail after repeated public denials from Tancredo's campaign that they had nothing to offer Maes.    – More –