DWAF reacts to Musgrave's 'name calling'

The long back and forth between U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave (R-Fort Morgan) and the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund gained yet another entry on Saturday, as David Kirk, the group's communications coordinator sent an e-mail to PolitickerCO.com, to rebut Musgrave's recent characterization of the group as "radical" and its ads as "reprehensible". These comments were made in an open letter criticizing her challenger Betsy Markey (D-Fort Collins) for having not finalized their debating schedule.

Terming Musgrave's comments "name calling and pouting," Kirk wrote that he believed Musgrave's accusation of the group being "radical" was unfounded.

"If she thinks it is a 'radical' proposition to increase automobile fuel efficiency standards so that we can pay less at the pump and to think that Big Oil companies making record billions of dollars in profit do not need billions of dollars in tax breaks that she voted for, then I think we can safely say that she really must be out-of-touch with her constituents," Kirk wrote in the e-mail.