Colorado Regent Cites Ward Churchill in Campaign for Congress

Ward Churchill is entering a race for Congress. No, the former ethnic-studies professor fired in 2007 from the University of Colorado at Boulder is not running for office. Rather, Mr. Churchill’s ouster is being brandished in a campaign commercial by Tom Lucero, who is seeking the Republican nomination to take on the Democratic incumbent in the Fourth Congressional District. Mr. Lucero was one of the Colorado regents who voted to dismiss Mr. Churchill, and to the Republican’s constituents in the four-way primary race, that’s a winning issue. “Took care of that mess in Colorado,” Mr. Lucero says in the commercial, according to the Colorado Daily. “Now I want to lead the fight to clean up Washington, D.C.”