Not News: Mark Udall Heckled
News: By His Own Millionaire Donor
Dramatic News: In the Middle of a Speech

One major-dollar donor is pissed off at Senator Uterus.

Colorado's senior Democratic senator was reaching the climax of his stump speech when one of his party's millionaire donors started to heckle him.

Mark Udall had been looking confident, just moments earlier, when he climbed down the steps of his campaign bus and began addressing what should have been an audience of the party faithful.

These were people who had given up their Sunday afternoon to knock on doors in Centennial, in the southern suburbs of Denver, in search of votes for Udall.

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The crowd cheered and autumn leaves fluttered about the senator like confetti.

Then, finally, came the only reference to policy in Udall's speech. "And by the way, I'm proud to stand with Colorado's women," he said, almost as an aside. "I'm proud to stand for reproductive freedom."

An angry voice from the crowd jeered: "That's not the only thing you stand for! Jesus Christ!"

Udall turned to a short, dark man on his left. The senator look genuinely stunned. "I'm sorry?"

"That's not the only thing you stand for!" The heckler was Leo Beserra, a 73-year-old who made millions on Wall Street and, since the early 1990s, has shared a generous slice of that wealth with Colorado Democrats.

Beserra then vented to the Guardian that Uterus was being openly mocked on Sunday talkshows for his single-minded focus on ladyparts.

We'll see if this strategy works. We don't think it will -- but Senator Uterus seems convinced that the data is telling him that if he can just inflame single women to go out to the polls, he'll win the election, despite having only attracted a minority of the adult population to support him.

posted by Ace at 01:20 PM

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