…Well, perhaps, in Greeley. As the Greeley Tribune reports, the five-term Colorado congressman and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful from Boulder has chipped in $1,500 to the campaigns of three Greeley City Council candidates, at $500 each:

Polis’ donations went to at-large candidate Stacy Suniga, Ward 3 candidate William Vetesy and Ward 2 candidate Lavonna Longwell.

Municipal races in Greeley are nonpartisan as elsewhere in the state, but it’s a safe bet Polis, a fabulously successful internet entrepreneur, put his money on candidates compatible with his own left-leaning profile. Indeed, other Democrats like Rep. Dave Young, D-Greeley, Weld County’s Democratic Party and county party Chair Jerad Sutton also gave to the three, the Tribune reports after perusing the latest campaign-finance disclosures by candidates.

And the GOP has jumped into the nominally nonpartisan ring, too, with Greeley’s Republican Mayor Tom Norton (a former state senator) donating $500 to Ward 2 Candidate Brett Payton.

Does it suggest a showdown – or maybe just politics as usual – in the college-and-feedlot town that brings together conservative cowboys and liberal academics, in relentlessly red-meat-eating Republican Weld County?