Radio host shouldn’t get all giddy about an HD25 primary until Gerou decides whether to run

(Promoted by Colorado Pols)

Last Tuesday, KLZ radio host Ken Clark had a conversation with Jonathan Keyser, who's running for CO House District 25.

Clark acted as if Keyser will be challenging Rep. Cheri Gerou in a GOP primary, even though Gerou hasn't filed to defend her HD25 seat.

Clark described Gerou this way:

Clark: "And for those of you that don’t remember, Cheri Gerou is the gal that got into that – oh, I don’t know, she was the one that had some expletives to say at Joe Neville, who is a lobbyist for Rocky Mountain Gun Owners. Her Principles of Liberty scores are just slightly better than the Democrats… She was at the bottom of the barrel for Republicans. She scored less than five points higher than the best Democrat. Um, ya think that’s somebody screaming out to be primaried? Yeah, I do."

Later, Clark said of Gerou:

Clark: "She is the worst Democrat that has an ‘R’ next to her name, that we have in the state of Colorado."

Keyser tried to correct Clark about the Gerou race, saying, "Right now I’m not challenging Representative Gerou. She hasn’t filed. You know, and so I don’t know what her intentions are." 

But Keyser couldn't slow down the Grassroots Radio Colorado co-host:

Clark: "All right. Well, you’re running against Cheri 'Stump the Chump' Gerou, and those are her words, not mine. Those are her words. She called herself 'Stump the Chump' Gerou, so I can only go off of what she says."

One wonders if Clark had any inkling that Gerou might not face Keyser, whom Clark described as a fellow 2012 graduate of the conservative Leadership Program of the Rockies.

ColoradoPols speculated last week that Gerou might decide to "challenge former Sen. Tim Neville (father of RMGO's lobbyist Joe) in a GOP primary for the chance to run in Senate District 16 against Sen. Jeanne Nicholson." If so, Pols noted, the "clash between Gerou and Neville would be an acid test of the much-ballyhooed power of the RMGO in Republican primaries."

If this happens, you think Clark would side with Gerou or Neville?

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Cheri Gerou vs. Tim Neville: The “Go F— Yourself” GOP Primary?

Rep. Cheri Gerou.

Last February during the gun safety legislation debate, we took brief note of an altercation between the lobbyist for the Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, Joe Neville, and GOP Rep. Cheri Gerou of Evergreen. As we understand the story, Rep. Gerou became upset about undue pressure from RMGO about the gun safety bills (which Gerou was always opposed to), culminating in a heated exchange in which Gerou told Neville to "go fuck yourself." This incident has been cited as just one of many such incidents that have given RMGO and its director Dudley Brown a dubious reputation even among fellow pro-gun conservatives. The Colorado Statesman's Peter Marcus reported at the time:

Neville [was] accused of telling Gerou that she would be the target of political attack mailers after a conversation he had with her on Feb. 15 about gun control legislation. Gerou approached Neville after she received calls and e-mails from constituents who were concerned that she might support the gun control bills, despite her commitment to vote against the four measures. She believes Neville and Rocky Mountain Gun Owners were spreading “lies.”

Standing outside the House chamber, Gerou told Neville to stop disseminating the misinformation. The conversation turned into a heated exchange, in which Gerou allegedly began waving her finger at Neville, ultimately telling him to “fuck off.”

Neville allegedly replied, “You just earned yourself another round of mailers in your district.”

Former Sen. Tim Neville.

?Now it appears the Gerou-Neville family feud could be headed for a showdown. Last week, a young Hogan-Lovells attorney named Jonathan Keyser filed to run for Gerou's House District 25 seat. Gerou isn't yet termed out of that seat, but the speculation we're hearing is that Keyser will move into Gerou's seat, while Gerou moves on to challenge former Sen. Tim Neville (father of RMGO's lobbyist Joe) in a GOP primary for the chance to run in Senate District 16 against Sen. Jeanne Nicholson. Neville proudly bills himself as the "RMGO-endorsed candidate" in that race.

A clash between Gerou and Neville would be an acid test of the much-ballyhooed power of the RMGO in Republican primaries. It's not like Gerou is an especially moderate Republican, but her failure to "kiss the ring" this year as the RMGO threw their weight around at the Capitol is an affront that Dudley Brown can't just let slide.

Especially not if Gerou is now the one gunning for the RMGO.

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