They must be pretty far along in the process if they are taking their masks off.
That mistake centers around one prospective delegate, Larry Singer, who filed paperwork to run as a delegate in Colorado’s 3rd congressional district. But when the election was held on Friday, Singer’s name did not appear on the ballot. Somewhere along the way, someone had lost his paperwork.
House tried to remedy the problem, placing Singer on the ballot to run for one of 13 at-large delegate slots up for grabs at Saturday’s statewide assembly. As one of more than 600 delegates for those slots, Singer, not surprisingly, came up short.
In that sense, he is not unlike almost every other person who filed papers to be a delegate. He is, however, unlike all the other delegate candidates in one way: he is the brother of Paul Singer, the New York City hedge fund magnate and one of the conservative movement’s most coveted donors, often a 7-figure contributor and one of the funders of the conservative infrastructure that’s been built in Colorado and across the country.
And here comes the punch (in the gut) line.
“This is the one guy who wants to get on who the party should recognize we need to get on because he basically pays for all this,” said one local GOP operative.