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VOLUME 36 • NUMBER 12 • FEBRUARY 8, 2018
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Tour guide Baylee Ginther goes live with a description of the Global Down Syndrome Foundation’s tness center during last week’s sneak preview of the organization’s new headquarters in Cherry Creek North. See more on page 9. Photo by Stefan Krusze
Tancredo’s departure from governor’s race came down to money Former congressman had been frontrunner in GOP primary Tom Tancredo likens his decision last week to exit the Republican gubernatorial primary to knowing when to cut losses in an allor-nothing poker game. “The stakes are going to
be really, really high, and you don’t have much of a hand,” he said. “The problem is you’re not the only one that’s going to lose your pot.” The former 6th District congressman who had been the controversial primaryfrontrunner in Republican polling for governor, announced Jan. 30 that he would end his bid for the GOP nomination, saying he had not been able to raise the funds necessary to run
a credible campaign against the likely Democratic nominee, U.S. Rep. Jared Polis. Tancredo, a longtime lightening rod on illegal immigration, says he also feared that a Republican loss to Polis—one of the wealthiest members of Congress, who has pledged $30 million to his own campaign—could signal more than forfeiture of the governor’s office. “What about all the statewide races? What about the state Senate, which we are in desperate need of holding when redistricting is coming up? There’s so much at risk,” the Republican said.
Tancredo acknowledges the irony of a candidate who is by far tops in his party’s polls to leave a race voluntarily—for lack of funding as the reason, no less. “I know it seems sort of counterintuitive Tom Tancredo that a frontrunner would drop out, but I do not intend to just win a primary and end up losing a general,” the former congressman said. “It really is a huge dilemma. Here you are, probably going to win a primary election—you’ll be on the stage thanking everybody and not having two nickels in the bank to rub together.” Tancredo has vied for
governor twice before, including the strange 2010 run as nominee of the American Constitution Party, taking second place in a threeway contest against Democrat John Hickenlooper and little-known Republican Dan Maes, who virtually fell into the nomination after the campaign of U.S. Rep. Scott McInnis, the perceived frontrunner, imploded. Four years later, Tancredo returned to the Republican fold, this time losing that party’s multi-candidate primary nomination to forContinued on page 2