Jane Norton Denies Being A Lobbyist; Record Much More Hazy

The Colorado Independent:

In an interview with a Colorado Springs radio talk show host Tuesday, Former lieutenant governor and Republican candidate for U.S. Senate Jane Norton said she has never worked as a lobbyist. She was responding to callers looking to feel out her conservative credentials.

"On the lobbyist thing, I've not been a lobbyist," she said.

It was the kind of clear if undeveloped answer campaign observers have been seeking for months. Indeed, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, which has been doggedly monitoring Norton appearances this winter, sent out a release Thursday mocking Norton's assertion as a "bogus claim" and arguing that the candidate was running from her work as a lobbyist to "curry favor from the far-right anti-establishment Tea Party crowd or because she doesn't want Coloradans to know the real reason she is opposing health care reform."

Read the whole story: The Colorado Independent

Comments

[LMPE]

02:50 PM on 01/30/2010

A repug who lies? Why, I've never heard of such a thing!

[nexxtep54]

12:29 PM on 01/30/2010

pppfffttt.

[ssfahrer]

10:14 PM on 01/29/2010

If she was not a "registered" lobbyist, then she was not a lobbyist for all intents and purposes.... And certainly this can be fact-checked quickly enough....

[1differentdrummer]

07:53 PM on 01/29/2010

She's not been a lobbyist, but she is a liar? How Republican.

[17ladyslippers]

06:29 PM on 01/29/2010

“If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it must be a duck”

Jane was a lobbyist and needs to come clean.

[Justdontgetit]

05:17 PM on 01/29/2010

I deny I'm not 19 and size 3 anymore!

Still doesn't make it true.

[Fool4Jazz]

01:56 PM on 01/29/2010

There's so much spin going on here, it's no wonder Jane is confused.