Mark Udall: Colorado US Senate Hopeful

Sometimes we forget that art is a spiritual path and that spiritual journeys are characterized by time in the desert. -Julia Cameron

Tall and senatorial looking, Mark Udall, D – Colo.) Seemed relaxed and at home Saturday afternoon at Bent’s Fort Inn.

A small group had been gathered together by Bent County Democratic Chairman Alex Netherton when Las Animas was added at the last minute to a brief weekend swing through southeastern Colorado.

Netherton apologized for the small turnout, saying he’d only had time to send information to television and radio about the Las Animas stop.

Udall at first joked with his visitors, alluding to the current “family motto: Vote for the Udall nearest you.” That was in reference to his cousin Tom Udall, (D – N. M.) also a five-term Congressman who is running for the U. S. Senate in New Mexico.

At least one attendee was silently thinking about the carpetbagger issue. That question was answered. Mark Udall migrated into Colorado to run successfully for Congress in 1998, but he told the gathering his mother was a Colorado native and that he had returned to her roots.

He said his cousin Tom similarly had returned to his mother’s roots in New Mexico. Mark Udall’s campaign site reveals his father also had brief ties to Colorado. Mark’s father is Morris (Mo) Udall, who played for the Denver Nuggets before serving 30 years as a Congressional representative from Arizona.

His uncle Stewart, Tom’s father, was also a Congressman and was Secretary of the Interior under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B.