Hintz (54) responds to '04 loss

Caycee Hess of the Advance Titan:

After losing by a margin of less than 7 percent to Republican Rep. Gregg Underheim, Democratic candidate Gordon Hintz can only look at what could have been. Unlike many congressional races, with the election based on the top two candidates, the third and fourth place candidates had large influences in the outcome of the 54th State Assembly position. Combining 13 percent of the vote, Palmeri and Carpenter both managed to gain enough of the popular vote to take some of the election out of the hands of the leading candidates. In doing so, Palmeri not only took away support from Hintz but also gave support to many issues he is against, said 3rd Congressional candidate Jef Hall. “Tony Palmeri is taking medicine away from the elderly, passing TABOR and is reducing shared revenue,” he said. “Everything he said he is against, he just passed.” Hall believes that despite Palmeri’s conflicting viewpoints with Underheim, he only helped the incumbents cause by aiding in Hintz’s loss.

Hintz said he believes Palmeri ran for office for the wrong reasons entirely, not purely for the people.“Palmeri is just a white guy with tenure,” he said. “I think that he’ll do fine under Republican rule."

From the Advance Titan www.advancetitan.com 11/3/04