U.S. Rep. Ken Buck, a Windsor Republican who has served in Congress for almost a decade, won’t search reelection in 2024, he introduced Wednesday.
The five-term congressman cited “self-serving lies” from inside his social gathering as a think about his determination to step down on the finish of his present time period. Buck, a former chairman of the Colorado Republican Occasion, has just lately fought with members of the state social gathering over claims in regards to the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.
“Too many Republican leaders are mendacity to America, claiming that the 2020 election was stolen, describing Jan. 6 as an unguided tour of the Capitol and asserting the following prosecutions had been the weaponization of our justice system,” Buck stated in a video statement launched late Wednesday morning. “These insidious narratives breed widespread cynicism and erode America’s confidence within the rule of regulation.”
(Watch video.)
Buck served as a key vote to oust former Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy early final month.
Buck just lately stated he’d acquired dying threats and an eviction discover for his Windsor workplace over his refusal to vote for Rep. Jim Jordan, a distinguished pusher of unfounded 2020 election claims, as a alternative for McCarthy. Final week, he joined Republicans in electing Rep. Mike Johnson as speaker. Johnson additionally performed a job in efforts to overturn the 2020 election, however Buck argued that Jordan was extra deeply concerned.
Buck, a staunch conservative, served for a couple of decade because the Weld County district legal professional. He ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 2010 in opposition to Sen. Michael Bennet. In 2014, he gained his first election to Congress to signify Colorado’s 4th Congressional District.
It is a growing story and will likely be up to date.
Keep up-to-date with Colorado Politics by signing up for our weekly publication, The Spot.
