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Ken Buck is the candidate backed by the Tea Party Movement for the Republican nomination for Senate in Colorado in 2012. he is currently the Weld County District Attorney. He earned his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1981 and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Wyoming School of Law in 1985.
In 1986, he was hired by then Congressman Dick Cheney to work on the Iran-Contra Investigation. After that he worked as a prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington D.C. In 1990, Buck joined the Colorado U.S. Attorney’s Office where he became the Chief of the Criminal Division. Throughout his years in Colorado, he has served as an instructor at the University of Denver Law School and for the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.
Gaffes
In July, Buck was caught on video using foul language to deny he wore "high heels". A week later, he was again recorded using foul language, including taking the Lord's name in vain, to refer to Tea Party adherents.[1]
According to his primary opponent Jane Norton, Buck is "two steps short of a fraud" and "a self-proclaimed Tea Partier who trashes tea partiers when he thinks no one is looking."
Endorsements