CO-04 Shaffer Vows To Defeat Musgrave

Marilyn Musgrave (R-Colorado), nearly ousted last year looks to face a tough reelection again next year.

State Senator Brandon Shaffer (D-Longmont) has told party officials he is vowing to run and defeat Musgrave in 2008.

Shaffer is the only Democrat to officially announce a run, but former State Senator Angie Paccione, who narrowly lost to Musgrave last year, Betsy Markey, a former aid to Senator Ken Salazar, and Eric Eidsness, the 2006 Reform candidate who is now a Democrat, are all possible Democratic nominees as well.

Musgrave's Fourth District includes all of rural Eastern Colorado and the state's entire borders with Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska, as well as Weld and Larimer Counties north of Denver, including the cities of Greeley, Fort Collins, Loveland and Longmont.