AURORA | House Speaker John Boehner will be in Denver next week campaigning for Aurora’s 6th Congressional District incumbent Mike Coffman.
“The Boehner event is closed to the press, just as Nancy Pelosi’s event for Romanoff was last weekend,” said Tyler Sandberg, spokesman for Coffman’s campaign, in an email. Lynn Bartels of the Denver Post reported earlier today that tickets for the fundraiser will cost anywhere from $2,500 to $250.
Yesterday, Coffman’s campaign unveiled his first television spot that focused on women voters, who outnumber men in Arapahoe County, which makes up most of the district.
The Sentinel has identified “the mysterious woman” speaking at the end of the ad as Jennifer Churchfield, a former president of the Cherry Creek School Board. “It’s nice to know someone has our back. That’s Mike Coffman,” she says in it.
Romanoff’s campaign fired back after the ad’s release, “It only takes 30 seconds — and about $5 million. That’s what Mike Coffman and the GOP are counting on: They’re poised to spend more than $5 million on a series of 30-second ads, rewriting the congressman’s 25-year-long voting record.”
Sandra Fish crunched some numbers for the Colorado Statesman that showed the CD 6 race is one of the most expensive in the country. “The Colorado race is ranked fifth in the nation in terms of money raised — $6.8 million through June 30 — by the candidates among the 435 U.S. House seats up for election Nov. 4,” she writes.
According to the Cook Political Report, Coffman is one of only two Republican incumbents whose race is considered a tossup. It’s also the only one that Cook gives an edge to a Democrat in.
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