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ED ANDRIESKI/ASSOCIATED PRESS Candidates Ken Buck, right, and Jane Norton have made talk about boots and high heels part of the campaign narrative in Colorado. In Colorado, which shoe will fit the GOP?
Jousting over footwear in Senate primary reflects party tensions
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colorado springs —The hotly contested race for the Re- publican Senate nomination in Colorado has been described as party establishment vs. “tea par- ty” activists. But in the cam- paign’s final weeks, it has turned into something more bizarre: high heels vs. dung-stained boots. Wearing the heels is Jane Nor- ton, a former lieutenant governor and favorite of the party estab- lishment. Wearing the boots is Ken Buck, the Weld County dis- trict attorney and darling of tea party and grass-roots conserva- tive activists.
Buck had the momentum in
the race before this week, when a video appeared of him speaking at an outdoor rally. “Why should you vote for me? Because I do not wear high heels,” he said to laugh- ter and then groans in the back-
ground. He then went on to describe his own footwear — in salty lan- guage. “She has questioned my manhood,” he said. “I think it’s fair to respond. I have cowboy boots on. They have real [cow ma- nure] on ’em. That’s Weld County [cow manure], not Washington D.C. [cow manure].” By Thursday morning, the vid- eo was featured in a Norton ad, a clear effort to rally female voters. “Play that again,” the female nar- rator says with a tone of in- dignation. The ad then turns Buck’s line about having manure on his boots against him. “Now Ken Buck wants to go to Wash- ington? He’d fit right in.” The heels-vs.-boots dustup is
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identified about 20 Pentagon employees and contractors who allegedly bought and download- ed online child pornography and in some cases used their govern- ment-issued computers to view the illegal material. On Friday, the Defense Depart-
ment’s inspector general’s office released a 94-page report that says some of those involved pos- sessed top-secret security clear- ances and worked for such divi- sions as the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Security Agency and the National Reconnaissance Of- fice. Those agencies deal with some of the government’s most sensitive intelligence and de- fense work. The government auditors re- leased the report — with some names and other information re- dacted — after the pornography investigation was first reported by the Boston Globe. The exact number of Pentagon employees investigated was not disclosed in the report, but a Pentagon spokeswoman said the probe involved about 20 people who had an “affiliation with the Defense Department” as full- time employees, former military members or contractors. Some of those people have been prosecuted, and some of their cases were dropped for lack of evidence. Other cases remain
the latest unexpected twist in what has become a fierce battle over the future direction of the Republican Party. Republicans are determined to win in Novem- ber the seat of Michael Bennet, a Democratic appointee. The ques- tion is, who would be the stron- ger challenger? Norton was the early front-runner. But Buck had picked up momentum in the race, or he had before the footwear flap, which appears to have given Norton a second boost. For Republicans to take con- trol of the Senate this fall, Colo- rado is one of a number of must- win states. Another is Nevada, where the GOP hopes to defeat Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid. Those hopes diminished when the campaign of Reid’s Re- publican challenger, tea party fa- vorite Sharron Angle, got off to a difficult start. And in Kentucky, libertarian conservative Rand Paul embarrassed the GOP estab- lishment by knocking off their fa- vored candidate in the primary — and promptly cause an uproar by
questioning parts of the 1964 Civ- il Rights Act. Colorado’s Aug. 10 primary will
offer the latest evidence of the strength of tea party activists and GOP prospects in November. Norton was recruited to run by, among others, Sen. John Cornyn (Tex.), chairman of the National Republican Senatorial Commit- tee, and Sen. John McCain (R- Ariz.). The NRSC is officially neu- tral in the race, but last month Norton and Cornyn appeared at a fundraiser together. The pro- ceeds were split between her campaign and the NRSC. Buck began to gain attention
only after he upset Norton in the party caucuses this spring. He has the endorsement of Sen. Jim DeMint (S.C.), who has parted company with party officials in Washington in several primaries this year. There is some history to this boots-and-heels business. Last spring, Norton’s campaign man- ager said that Republicans in Washington needed someone to “kick Harry Reid in the shins, and Jane is going to do that with her high heels.” More recently, a peeved Norton taunted Buck, complaining that, instead of relying on independ- ently funded conservative groups to attack her with TV ads, he ought to be “man enough to do it himself.” Republicans have long seen Colorado as a prime take- over opportunity. Bennet was ap- pointed to the seat when Presi- dent Obama selected then-Sen. Ken Salazar as Interior secretary and is vulnerable in a year when Democrats generally are on the defensive. Bennet has the support of Oba- ma and the Democratic estab- lishment, but has been chal-
lenged by Andrew Romanoff, Colorado’s former Democratic House speaker, who has the back- ing of former president Bill Clin- ton. Bennet in favored to win the primary, which has also turned negative.
Republicans are now weighing their choices. Lu Busse, a leader of the 9/12 movement in Colo- rado, a cousin to the tea party, said the issue differences be- tween Buck and Norton are “not as clear cut” as some have sug- gested. But she said some activ- ists question whether Norton “is tough enough to stand up to the Washington insiders and the peo- ple you’ve got to stand up to.” In a telephone interview, Nor- ton sought to distance herself from the establishment. “I just think it’s a political trick
that my opponent has laid on me because the anti-establishment sentiment is really strong,” she said. “Anything having to do with Washington is a negative right now.”
Buck, meanwhile, tried to play down his association with the tea party movement. “I wasn’t draft- ed by the tea party,” he said. “I started about the same time that the tea party was rockin’ and rol- lin’. . . . So I think my candidacy and the evolution of the tea party were parallel events.” But he made clear that he sees his mission is to shake up both parties in Washington: “There is a conservative move- ment within the Republican Par- ty that distinguishes a lot of us, and we recognize that Repub- licans are a big part of the prob- lem. . . . I don’t have any deep friends in Washington now, and in six years I won’t have any friends.”
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open. Gary Comerford, a spokes- man for the inspector general, said the agency takes such cases very seriously. He would not comment on individual cases, saying the report “speaks for it- self.” The cases are part of a wider probe, Operation Flicker, which was started by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement four years ago and which has identi- fied more than 5,000 people who subscribed to child pornography Web sites. The cases detailed in the new
report include one involving an employee of Oracle Corp. who had a top-secret clearance and worked on a contract for the Na- tional Security Agency. The man subscribed to various child por- nography Web sites and made 21 purchases. After authorities started investigating him, the re- port said, he attempted to tamp- er with computers at his office. He was put on administrative leave with pay. He later fled to Libya but was arrested and ex- tradited to the United States. Another case involved a gov- ernment employee at the Nation- al Defense University in Norfolk who made two purchases from a child pornography Web site. He pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography and was sen- tenced to five years in prison. It is an illegal use of govern- ment property to access pornog- raphy with a government com- puter, officials say.
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