Bob Rankin, who lives in Aspen and Carbondale, and Wayne Wolf of Delta are vying for the chance to pick off Gail Schwartz’s Senate District 5 seat for Republicans, who are hungry to reclaim power after four years of Democratic Party domination at the Capitol in Denver, the Aspen Daily News reports.
Ranking is a retired aerospace and computer industry executive who lived in Colorado Springs and Washington, D.C. before moving to the Roaring Fork Valley 15 years ago. The 2010 Senate District 5 race is his first political campaign.
Wolf, 58, is a former Delta County commissioner who ran unsuccessfully against Rep. John Salazar in the 2008 race for the 3rd Congressional District seat representing the Western Slope.