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Lang Sias hasn’t voted since 2000, became a Republican in 2007, lives outside CD-7

by | 7:15 am, May 30, 2010 | 3 Comments

Lang Sias is running for the Republicans' nomination for Congress in Colorado's seventh congressional district even though he doesn't live in the district, only became a Republican in 2007 and hasn't voted since 2000. In a way, this is old news, but Lynn Bartels' story in the Denver Post this morning makes it news again. But Sias is out of town working as a pilot either in the National Guard or for Federal Express, and wasn't available to comment to Bartels by phone or e-mail. So she uses his previous comments on his record in her story, and that allows him to explain himself fairly well. He also addressed some of those issues when I interviewed him in February. Despite his residency and brief history as a Democrat, Sias won 43% of Republican activists' votes in the house district seven GOP assembly to 49% for Aurora Councilman Ryan Frazier. He's an attractive and smart candidate who impresses people who get a chance to talk to him and hear him at candidate forums. A lawyer who apparently isn't in love with being a lawyer, Sias has done his homework. After working on John McCain's campaigns, he does a good job of sounding like one of the smarter Republican candidates in the state. The questions are: Will he be able to raise enough money to pay for the TV ads and staff he will need to introduce himself to CD-7 voters in the expensive Denver media market before the Aug. 10 primary election? Will Frazier use his greater resources to hammer Sias in TV and direct mail campaigns, or will he promote himself without mentioning Sias and thereby deny Sias as much name recognition as possible? Will bloggers and the media make a big issue of Sias' record or focus on other campaigns and issues?  Will voters in the GOP primary care about where Sias lives, that he's John McCain's and Bob Beauprez's candidate and that he doesn't vote, or will they focus on his military career and that former U.S. Rep. Tom Tancredo has endorsed him and believes in his potential as a conservative member of Congress?  The winner of the GOP's primary will face incumbent Democrat Ed Perlmutter in November. This is my 26th post on Sias, 37th on Frazier and 34th on Perlmutter. Search this site for Sias, Frazier or Perlmutter to learn more about the candidates. LINKs: Candidate for 7th CD a veteran, but hasn't voted since 2000. Lynn Bartels. Interview: Lang Sias says Republicans need to support real health reforms. The Business Word, 2.23.2010. Lang Sias for Congress. Ryan Frazier for Congress. Ed Perlmutter for Congress.
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  1.   Brian Wilson
      May 31st, 2010 @ 1:27 pm

    I don’t know, or care really, who is the better candidate in CD-7. That is for the voters of that district to decide. My concern is why all of your articles are political hit pieces. Are you so self-absorbed that you think you can single-handedly choose who gets elected in the primaries with your “blogs”, a.k.a. “political hack jobs”? Why don’t you just do some fair and balanced reporting on both sides and let the voters choose.

  2.   Laura Victoria
      May 31st, 2010 @ 3:21 pm

    I care about who wins in CD7 and it’s not my district. (My Dist.has Jared Polis, so I prefer to focus on more pleasant things). I care too about Republicans getting elected all over the US in Congress and the Senate.

    I don’t see this piece as a hit piece by Don at all. I don’t know who Don supports in this race. Both are good candiates, and the key for me is who has the best shot to beat Perlmutter. I think that’s Frazier. I don’t care at all that he didn’t vote. They’re raising that same weak symbolic issue about Meg Whitman in California.

    I think Don’t interviews have served to bring a lot of information to voters that the MSM fails to provide. In the beginning, the Treasurer’s race was a puzzle. Don’t interviews got the candidates to open up and reveal themselves both on issues and electability. It then became clear to me that JJ Ament was the best candidate.

    I disagree with Don a lot, as I’m more libertarian on certain issues.

    Brian, I agree with your other post where you talk about how much it takes to be a candidate and what you have to put up with. I sure wouldn’t do it!

  3.   Donald Johnson
      June 1st, 2010 @ 11:16 am

    Brian,
    My political “hit pieces” are seen as “hit pieces” by the candidates involved and their supporters. People trying to pick candidates see my pieces as useful perspectives. What I’m trying to do is keep all of the candidates honest and to show when they do and don’t sound like intellectually honest, conservative and competent candidates.

    Candidates make a lot of exaggerated and silly claims and statements. Their opponents respond with more exaggeration and silliness. I try to show where candidates are exaggerating, lying and sounding stupid, as Rand Paul does on the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

    I also have my views of what’s right and wrong, liberal and conservative and common sense and nonsense. You have yours. We can and do disagree, which is what this forum and others are all about.

    Some people respond to opinions they don’t like by presenting solid, interesting arguments backed up with links and attributions. Others just call names. I’ve been debating online since 1982, and I find the name callers don’t stay around long, and they don’t change opinions.

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