ICYMI: Where’s Heidi? Gubernatorial Candidate Heidi Ganahl Gets Called out for Hiding from Colorado Voters
Denver, CO – Hiding Heidi is failing to rid herself of her nickname as she continues to refuse to talk to voters or her top of the ticket opponent Greg Lopez.
Colorado conservatives are blasting Ganahl for refusing to attend or canceling events last minute. Ganahl told a grassroots Republican group that she is “not going to do any more debates or forums” with other candidates for governor. To make matters worse, Ganahl’s campaign also turned down multiple televised nonpartisan debates.
Last month, Colorado Democrats launched hidingheidi.co to let Coloradans know what Heidi is hiding.
“Heidi Ganahl is taking the primary for granted and thinks she can avoid accountability for her far-right views by just not showing up. If she thinks her absence will make the hearts of Colorado voters fonder, she’s dead wrong. Even Colorado conservatives are speaking up and asking ‘Where’s Heidi?’” - Colorado Democratic Party spokesperson Kailee Stiles
Some grassroots conservatives say Heidi Ganahl, a Republican candidate for governor, is avoiding events where she would have to share a stage with other candidates — a claim Ganahl’s campaign disputes.
In addition to her primary opponent Greg Lopez claiming Ganahl won’t do any televised debates, Mickie Nuffer, a Loveland grandmother who founded Northern Colorado Ladies for Liberty, says Ganahl backed out of a May 5 event upon learning Lopez would be there.
Nuffer, who founded the NOCO Ladies for Liberty in February of this year, says she was inspired to hold the gubernatorial event after hearing then-Republican candidate Danielle Neuschwanger speak in Fort Collins that same month Nuffer launched her group. Initially, Nuffer said, she planned to invite just Neuschwanger and Ganahl and have the event focus solely on women candidates, but that by the end of February her group decided a forum with the other main candidate Lopez made the most sense. When Neuschwanger failed to make the ballot via assembly, that left Ganahl and Lopez for the event.
Greg Lopez is telling a similar story at recent campaign events. At the opening last month of his campaign headquarters in Parker, Lopez said that 9News and CBS Channel 4 each proposed televised debates to both campaigns, but that the Ganahl campaign refused them all.
Later in that same speech, he added that Spanish-language news station Univision also wanted to broadcast a GOP primary debate but told him Ganahl declined.
Lopez expanded upon his claims in a campaign event in Silverton last weekend, where he recounted his conversation with Ganahl from the previous night.
9News’ Clark has noted on air that the Ganahl campaign has so far declined the station’s invitation for a one-on-one interview.
Read more in the Colorado Times Recorder.
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