A newly formed 527 political committee is going after Douglas Bruce and two other City Council candidates that Bruce recruited to run for office as a slate.
The Save Colorado Springs Now political committee, based in Arvada, is being led by Debbie Wamsley, who used to be the chief of staff at the Colorado AFL-CIO.
“At this point in time, I cannot say anything more, but thanks for the call,” Wamsley, the political committee’s registered agent, said in a brief telephone interview Monday before hanging up.
Read more about Wamsley by clicking here.
Save Colorado Springs Now has a website that features only a homepage.
“Save Colorado Springs Now is a group of concerned Colorado Springs citizens who believe that the City of Colorado Springs deserves policies and programs that serve to create economic opportunity, preserve the financial integrity of the city and improve the national and statewide reputation of the City,” the website state. “Save Colorado Springs Now was organized to advance a business oriented, prosperity-driven agenda in the City and educate the general public about the issues relevant to City governance.”
The group is behind a flyer that portrays Bruce and “his cronies” Ed Bircham and Richard Bruce as a curse on Colorado Springs. The three are part of a slate of candidates calling themselves the Reform Team. The two other members are Helen Collins and Gretchen Kasameyer.
“Don’t let Doug Bruce, Ed Bricham and R. Bruce drag us down again,” according to the flyer, which includes pictures of the three men in a sinking ship.
“With Bruce, Bircham & Bruce … we’re pretty much sunk.”
The flyer, which one of Bircham’s employees received at home last week, promotes three other council candidates: incumbent Jan Martin and Merv Bennett and Tim Leigh.
All three have received campaign contributions from two powerful employee groups: the Colorado Springs Police Protective Association and the Colorado Springs Professional Firefighters.
“Preserve our jobs, our economic growth and our city’s reputation with Jan Martin, Merv Bennett and Tim Leigh,” the flyer states.
“With Martin, Bennett & Leigh, Colorado Springs will steam ahead.”
Martin said she didn’t know anything about the group.
“Oh my goodness gracious,” Martin said after she saw the flyer.
“I guess it’s just open season for campaigning,” she said.
“I’m glad I’m on the right side of the ship, though,” she added, laughing.
For Douglas Bruce, the flier is no laughing matter.
“That’s a classic hit piece,” he said.
“It’s just another smear job,” he added. “What more do you want in terms of dirty politics?”
Vote NO to the reform team! These people don’t care about anything other than lining their oun pockets!
Bruce you should know what dirty politics are you have been doing it for years. I hope the voters do not vote you or your other “reformers” in because all it is going to do is hurt this city and it is already hurt enough. If you all do not want your services back to par and want to keep going the way we are then vote them in by all means but I hope we actually get people in who want to fix this city not line their own pockets. Bruce if you do not want to pay your taxes then sell your properties and stop being a slumlord
Why would anyone want to pay attention to the issues when we can just call candidates nasty names? We can also just make false allegations? Why bother to hear their story? We’re in a land where you don’t need to think —- someone is always there to tell you how to vote.
There are more Bruce supporters in this town than many voters realize. I’m predicting he will be elected to City Council but the other 4 in his reform team will not.
Love him or hate him, its always an entertaining show to say the least when Mr. Bruce is involved.
I would much rather have Bruce in as a new Councilman than see Jan Martin get re-elected after she tried to push her 234% tax hike off on the property owners in her failed tax hike referendum.
The woman has become clueless and has lost touch with reality.
“who used to be the chief of staff at the Colorado AFL-CIO” That says all one needs to know.
Union Thugs!
Unions are only out for themselves at the taxpayers expense.
There’s something odd about someone from Arvada involving herself in our city’s politics. I’m not a Brucer but something smells here.
Be careful what you wish for….Bruce on the council without the support of his “team” won’t be as destructive as having the 5 horsemen of the Apocalypse, but it is certainly a guarantee of pointless meetings, unnecessary conflict and opportunities for Bruce to display both his ego and penchant for greed at every turn. We don’t need entertainment, we need a council that acts to improve the city.
pondfrogz says:
There’s something odd about someone from Arvada involving herself in our city’s politics. I’m not a Brucer but something smells here.
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Maybe it’s being organized by the photographer he kicked in Denver when we proudly sent that clown up to a real city
oh poor Dougie is calling it a “smear job” when ALL he has done for years has engage in smear jobs…he and his team are destructive to the city and the state…he has caused nothing but problems since he has shown up…he has become a bitter, warped, old fool – time for him and his group to go!
All we want is rid of Doug and the rest of his Reform Team. That is not “dirty politics”, just “clean” politics for Colorado Springs.
So Bruce doesn’t like it when people treat him the way they’ve treated others.
I can only hope that this PAC will continue on their quest and make TABOR history.
If the union is against them, they must be OK! The people of Colorado Springs are too smart to be fooled by the unions.
……eh, nose PICK er….you gotta problem with the 40 hour work week, two week vacations and regulations that keep your employer from feeding your hands to his machinery?
……stupid Koch ho……vote for Bruce’s slate and find a nice cave to live in.
Pick – - I am not sure ‘the people of Colorado Springs are too smart’ is an accurate statement – Bruce has a lot of followers in town who view him as some kind of ‘savior’ and the chances he will get elected are quite strong, I would imagine.
The ‘smart’ people of Colorado Springs have shown total disregard for their own well-being by refusing to accept the fact that the cost of business for government goes up as it does for all of us – - yet they refuse to fund their own future.
Other cities are having new firms move to their areas while our unemployment rate keeps climbing as no firms view this as a financially viable location for a business.
He is “like a baby crying on the floor.”
I’ve known Ed Bircham for years, and he really is a surprisingly likable guy.
Crazy as a bedbug, but likable.
But as much as I like the man, if I voted for him I’d be nuttier than he is though.
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… slow down, lame doug.
You ran for state rep and lost. Ran the ugly 3 and lost. Ran from the subpoenas and lost. Ran your websites as “non-profit” Charities and lost. Ran after alien brides but couldn’t catch any.
That’s a lot of running – at the mouth. Lord have mercy if you ever run for the health of it your feet. Maybe you could start slow by walking a mile in our shoes.
I say go ahead and vote the Dream Team of reformers into office. Colorado Springs is becoming to gentrified for me. I’d like to see it returned to something more prehistoric and primitive again. Nice feilds of gramma grass where there were ‘burbs. Wildflowers covering the retail parking lots. Plentiful indigenous wildlife running around. Go ahead, vote them in, let them pull the plug on civilization in the Springs. We need another State park near Denver anyway. Golden Gate is getting so dang crowded, and Cheyenne mountain already has a built in lodge/hotel.
LOVELY WAY TO RUIN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD. Door-to-door solicitors are just “throwing” the brochures on driveways and the wind is blowing them all over…..our nice neighborhood is “literally trashed.”
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