Colorado Politics

‘Drain the Swamp’ — tonight — with Colorado Congressman Ken Buck at CCU

We’ve noted here before that a lot of politicians may say they want to drain the swamp in our nation’s capital, but even our swamp-draining 45th president can’t exactly say he wrote the book on the subject.

Ken Buck did. Literally.

Buck is of course the Republican member of Congress representing Colorado’s 4th Congressional District, and his, “Drain the Swamp: How Washington Corruption Is Worse Than You Think,” comes out in bookstores Tuesday. Tonight, the congressman will be on hand at Colorado Christian University’s conservative Centennial Institute in Lakewood to kick off his book’s official launch.

It promises to be one heckuva tell-all, says an e-missive the Institute blasted out this afternoon reminding us of tonight’s Buck appearance:

Lavish parties. Committee chairmanships for sale. Pay-to-play corruption. Backroom arm-twisting. Votes on major legislation going to the highest bidder. Welcome to Washington, D.C., the swamp that President Donald Trump was elected to drain.

Congressman Ken Buck is blowing the whistle on the real-life House of Cards in our nation’s capital. Elected in 2014 as president of one of the largest Republican freshman classes ever to enter Congress, Buck immediately realized why nothing gets done in Congress, and it isn’t because of political gridlock-in fact, Republicans and Democrats work together all too well to fleece taxpayers and plunge America deeper into debt.

…In Drain the Swamp, Buck names names and tells incredible true stories about what really happened behind closed doors in Congress during legislative battles that have ensued over the last two years including budget, continuing resolutions, omnibus, trade promotion authority, Iran, and more.

Want to hear more about the book – maybe even pick up a copy- from the author himself? Here are details of his appearance; there’s still time to RSVP:

Monday, April 107 p.m.-8:30 p.m.Colorado Christian University180 S. Garrison St Lakewood, CO 80226Click here to RSVP

 

 

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