Jay Fawcett
Candidate for Congress
Colorado (CO-5)
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Turning on the Fawcett
Seeking the impossible dream: unseating Hefley
December 8, 2005
By Michael de Yoanna | Colorado Springs Independent
El Paso County Sheriff John Anderson, who was ushered into the assembly by a Scottish bagpipe band, received 13 percent of votes — short of the 30 percent to earn him an automatic spot on the ballot. He is expected to gather the 1,000 signatures needed to petition on.
Four other Republicans sidestepped the assembly: Colorado Springs resident A.J. Towne, Mayor Lionel Rivera, retired Air Force Maj. Gen. Bentley Rayburn and former El Paso County Commissioner Duncan Bremer. All could petition on.
The Republican who emerges from the primary will face Democrat Jay Fawcett, a policy analyst for U.S. Northern Command and a retired Air Force lieutenant colonel who fought in the first Gulf war. Fawcett has said he seeks to raise a record $800,000 for Democrats in a race where he would need all of the roughly 87,000 Democratic voters and 112,000 of its 126,000 unaffiliated voters to win.
A recent poll commissioned by his campaign found that 70 percent of local voters disapprove of the direction of the Republican-led Congress, and that 63 percent would consider voting for a Democrat. The poll showed Fawcett trailing a generic Republican candidate by 8 percent, with 40 percent of voters undecided.
