{"id":2450720,"date":"2019-11-04T15:02:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T22:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=315506"},"modified":"2019-11-04T15:02:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T22:02:17","slug":"democrat-donald-valdez-drops-congressional-bid-attempt-to-unseat-tipton-in-3rd-u-s-house-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/democrat-donald-valdez-drops-congressional-bid-attempt-to-unseat-tipton-in-3rd-u-s-house-district\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Donald Valdez drops congressional bid, attempt to unseat Tipton in 3rd U.S. House district"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"795\" height=\"530\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/lebsock_6419x.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/lebsock_6419x.jpg 795w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/lebsock_6419x-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2019\/11\/lebsock_6419x-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 795px) 100vw, 795px\"><figcaption><strong>Colorado Rep. Donald Valdez, shown at the Capitol in March 2018, has decided not to run for Congress.<\/strong><br \/><em>AAron Ontiveroz\/The Denver Post<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Democrat Donald Valdez has ended his bid to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton in Colorado\u2019s 3rd Congressional District, opting instead to seek a third term in the state legislature.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Valdez, of La Jara,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2019\/06\/27\/donald-valdez-scott-tipton-congress-colorado-race\/\">announced his congressional campaign over the summer<\/a>&nbsp;and was only able to raise about $25,000. He faced three others in the Democratic primary to face Tipton in 2020.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Valdez said he was leaving the race because of threats to the aquifer in the San Luis Valley, a broad swath of which he represents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sean Tonner, deputy chief of staff to former Colorado Gov. Bill Owens, wants to drill a series of wells on his recently acquired Rancho Rosado and pipe 22,000 acre-feet of water a year around the Sangre de Cristos to the Front Range. (Owens is a principal at Tonner\u2019s company, Renewable Water Resources.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coloradosun.com\/2019\/11\/04\/donald-valdez-ends-congressional-bid-cd3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Click here (opens in a new tab)\">Click here<\/a> to read the full story from The Colorado Sun.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Colorado Sun is a reader-supported news organization dedicated to covering the people, places and policies that matter in Colorado. Read more, sign up for free newsletters and subscribe at&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.coloradosun.com\/\"><em>coloradosun.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/democrat-donald-valdez-drops-congressional-bid-attempt-to-unseat-tipton-in-3rd-u-s-house-district\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Colorado Rep. Donald Valdez, shown at the Capitol in March 2018, has decided not to run for Congress.AAron Ontiveroz\/The Denver Post Democrat Donald Valdez has ended his bid to unseat Republican U.S. Rep. Scott Tipton in Colorado\u2019s 3rd Congressional District, opting instead to seek a third term in the state legislature.&nbsp; Valdez, of La Jara,&nbsp;announced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2450720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-19 09:21:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2450720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2450720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2450720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2450720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2450720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}