State House Dist. 49 Representative Kevin Lundberg received 68% of the votes from the Republican Party vacancy committee to replace Senator Steve Johnson in the State Senate. The committee consisted of 128 Republican precinct captains from all the precincts in State Senate District 15.
State House Dist. 51 Representative Don Marostica lead the effort to appoint Loveland businessman Mike Lynch to the vacant Senate seat. However, Marostica’s recent comments to a statewide newspaper disparaging “Christians” and their values and blaming them for costing votes in the last election changed the tone of the contest.
Does the party need to abandon or embrace its conservative values became an issue in the two forums where the candidates seeking to replace Johnson appeared. Read the complete story on the vacancy committee meeting in Loveland on LovelandPolitics.com and see pictures of the event.
Cordial and without controversy, the vote was counted and Lundberg was announced the winner with 86 votes and Mike Lynch receiving only 42 votes.
Did you support or oppose Lundberg for this position?
Wow! What a story! The Godfather characters, Lynch mobs and even Don Marostica finally being ignored! Sorry I missed it but I can’t vote in this and didn’t know if I could go. I heard Don is starting his own party – no Christians and no environmentalists. Maybe he will call it the Uranium Party!!! It can be centered where I live in Nunn!!!
My God! Did he really say that about keeping Christians out of the Republican Party? Christian values are what our civilization is built upon. May God have mercy on that man because I will not next time he runs!
Thank God (yes I will say that word again) Jesus that a man with integrity, courage and kidness will represent me in the senate. Lynch is not a bad guy just got into the wrong crowd. Rennels is no longer electable in this county and everyone knows it.
Steve was smart to stay away by going to Florida on vacation even though I would like to know what he thought he was doing by going aganst Kevin.
Boy, the roaches do scatter when the light defeats the dark.
I just want to say how polite everyone was today. We all agreed on the outcome and both men running showed courtesy to one another. Decorum that is lacking in democrat gaggles was followed today. We just need to stop the bickering and unite now to become one strong party to defeat the people who aim to wreck this country.
As an independant, I don’t usually pay much attention to the goings on inside either party. Still, Lundberg has been pretty consistent on property rights, so I guess he’ll be okay. If I recall, he’s been good on fighting taxes, too, so good for him!
This is why the Democrats win. The senior elected state official in larimer county (lundberg) should have had a cake walk. Instead, don marostica and steve johnson joined by kathay tried to get their own person in the seat and divided the party. Their disloyalty is shocking as is Marostica’s agenda to purge any christians from among our ranks. Hint for Marostica: that would be most of the party. What is he anyway? Pagan?
Mr. Lynch told me that Lundberg could not be elected, was not taken seriously in Denver and that he could never hold the seat for Republicans in two years. Than he stood there and told us how he was also a conservative yada yada yada at the meeting last Saturday. I was wondering if that was even the same guy who called me on the telephone.
As the Bible says – you reap what you sew. His approach was all wrong.
Ha! Just when you think the Larimer Repubs couldn’t get any worse at election work, they give us…Kevin Lundberg! Kevin is a nice man, I don’t question that, but I do know Kevin will not win elections outside of his old district. His positions are far to the right of all but the most vocal members of the local Republicans. Having worked closely with various business groups, I have gotten the following response from several people. “Kevin has a great voice, but every time he opens his mouth, he drives off any support he could have had.” Kevin doesn’t live in the same reality based community most of Larimer county lives in. His lone vote against censuring Doug Bruce and his legislative agenda of GodGays, leave him as an outsider. He will be the least effective Senator representing Loveland since Jim Roberts.
Loveland and south Larimer county will endure 2 years of this extremism and then elect a moderate to replace him. The only question is will the Republicans replace him with a moderate in a primary before the Dems can replace him in the genereal election.
I am a Christian. I am a Conservative. I do not support the Republican Party because it is no different than the Democratic Party.