Buck Won’t run for Senate in 2022
U.S. Rep. Ken Buck said on Twitter on Thursday that he would not run for the U.S. Senate in 2022. Buck represents Colorado’s 4th Congressional District.
The Republican from Windsor said he was “humbled by the interest and support.”
Buck ran for Senate in 2010, losing to Democrat Michael Bennet.
Buck recently won an election for his fourth term in the House after beating Democrat Ike McCorkle in the 2020 election.
Buck is the current chairman of Colorado’s Republican Party.
This week, he joined other lawmakers to reintroduce legislation to increase penalties for those involved with rioting. The bill is also known as the Blocking Rioters and Insurrectionists from our Cities to Keep us Safe, or BRICKS Act.
“The law is on the books now,” Buck told the Greeley Tribune. “All this does is increase the penalty. It doesn’t change the nature of the law. We’ve had this law for decades. It hasn’t been used in the past by federal authorities to target peaceful protests, and it won’t be used in the future. If it was, it would be thrown out of court. It will be used to stop the destruction of property and harming individuals.”
Police shoot suspect in leg.
PUEBLO» Police officers exchanged gunshots with a suspect Friday afternoon throughout the Pueblo Grande mobile home park, eventually shooting the suspect in the leg, according to a news release from the police.
The suspect, James Justice, was taken to a hospital with wounds that were not life-threatening, the news release said. At the time of the shooting, Justice was on bail for charges of assaulting a peace officer, police said.
Police were responding to a report that a man had threatened two people with a handgun, the news release said.
Three police officers have been placed on administrative leave, per standard protocol.
One suspect arrested in Dollar General shooting that wounded two.
ARVADA» Police have arrested 48year-old Johnny McCaslin as a suspect in a shooting at a Dollar General store. The incident happened on Sheridan Boulevard before 9:30 a.m Tuesday.
Two people were shot while leaving; neither’s condition is known.
Right before 9 p.m. Thursday, McCaslin and a woman were brought into custody after police attempted to serve an arrest warrant for several hours. The arrest occurred as residents nearby were cleared from the area.