Ken Buck

Exactly.

And something I didn't expect to see in this political race, Republican Ken Buck, who served in Congress in the 4th Congressional District for a long time, and he was also the former GOP state party chair, endorsing Phil Weiser.

Buck said in this video that he's worked with Weiser and thinks he's honest and a hard worker.

Weiser is all but guaranteed to win this race, but Marx's behavior and competitiveness do matter, both for the discussion of the future of Colorado and for other Republican candidates on the ballot this year.

He's a former mayor of Parker, south of Denver.

He had a very brief stint as the U.S. representative for the 4th Congressional District.

Yes, he stepped in to fill a vacancy in that seat after Congressman Ken Buck resigned.

It was six months of holding office.

Most legislative affairs directors come out of the leadership architecture, so they'll be folks with kind of a long pedigree in either the speaker or the leader's office over time.

I came up in the personal office, so I worked for Mark Sanford starting off, and then I did a stint for then-Congressman Ted Budd, did a stint with the Freedom Caucus as their policy director, went in to work for Russ at OMB, worked for Matt Rosendale, Ken Buck, and then I came over as then-Senator Vance's legislative director, later deputy chief of staff.

it's a little bit of an unusual kind of, and I, you know, I did a stint here at this building.

Uh, it was on the fourth floor.

Meanwhile, John was up to his old tricks in Las Vegas after his release from prison.

Well, when a new Weld County District Attorney, Ken Buck, was appointed in 2004, he agreed to pursue an arrest warrant on John for what they had, which was signed by a judge despite there being no body.

And when the Las Vegas Police Department gained access to his home with a warrant, they found what they described as a shrine to Tina that was framed on his wall.

Yeah.

Suzanna Ryan, she's a forensic DNA expert, and a cold case solved because of her quick thinking and a little bit of luck.

Cowboy State Daily columnist Ken Buck is here.

It's an Ask Abby Thursday, and we're gonna do something a little different with that slot.

And Eric Boley will close out the show, president of the Wyoming Hospital Association.

Mark Hines, Suzanna Ryan joins us.

She's a forensic DNA specialist.

And columnist Ken Buck, all coming up next hour.

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So I'm gonna talk to Greg Rabideau about that and some other things.

And, uh, what else do we have? Uh, Congressman Ken Buck, uh, former Congressman Ken Buck will be here.

Uh, he's got a book out called The Rise of Socialism Is the Death of Freedom, and so we'll sort of continue that theme on with him.

And, and he makes, uh...

And, uh, with that, we gotta get to a break.

News coming up here at the bottom of the hour.

After that, uh, Congressman, former Congressman Ken Buck, uh, joins us with, uh, the latest on his book.

It's called Wake Up America! The Rise of Socialism Is the Death of Freedom.