Denver, CO - Colorado Democratic Party chairwoman Pat Waak called on Bob Schaffer to clean up his campaign, after Schaffer’s campaign manager was quoted in Saturday’s Rocky Mountain News threatening to “shove a bunch of 30-second ads up [Mark Udall’s] a**.”

“Coloradans deserve to know if this is the kind of campaign Bob Schaffer is going to run – obscene, ugly attack politics that do nothing to deal with the challenges people are facing, and frankly are just plain offensive,” said Waak.  “Voters have made it clear this year that they’re sick and tired of this kind of thing, but it looks like Bob Schaffer hasn’t gotten the message.  We learned two things about Bob Schaffer this weekend – that he is pledging to run negative ads between now and November and that his campaign is describing them with words that can’t even run in the newspaper.  It’s time for Bob Schaffer to clean up the sleaze coming out of his campaign and start running a campaign worthy of the people of Colorado.”

Schaffer’s campaign manager made the statement in response to Congressman Mark Udall voting Friday against Congressional adjournment, as he had pledged to do, in an effort to keep Congress in session to consider comprehensive energy policy reforms.