Kenneth Robert Buck (born February 16, 1959) is an American politician who is the US Representative for the 4th congressional district in Colorado. A Republican, he previously served as District Attorney for Weld County, Colorado. Buck is also a Republican challenger who failed to Michael Bennet in the 2010 Senate race in Colorado.
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Early life and education
Buck was born in Ossining, New York in 1959. He and his two brothers were encouraged by their parents, both New York lawyers, to attend the Ivy League college, and Buck earned a bachelor's degree from Princeton University in 1981. Buck then said that the Princeton Title "is more important to [my father] than I am". Buck played four years of football at Princeton, a year as a defender/defender and three years as a spectator, earning the All-Ivy League award as his senior year player.
After college, Buck moved west and worked in Wyoming in the state legislative service office and received a law degree from the Law Faculty of the University of Wyoming in 1985. He is also an instructor at the University of Denver Law School and the National Institute for Advocacy Courts in Colorado.
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Careers
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In 1986, he was hired by Congressman Dick Cheney to work on the Iran-Contra investigation. After the assignment, he worked as a prosecutor at the US Department of Justice in Washington D.C.
In 1990, Buck joined the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Colorado where he became Head of the Criminal Division. Buck was formally reprimanded and asked to take an ethics class in 2001 for a meeting he had with a defense attorney on a crime case he thought was unnecessary to pursue. Only one of three people initially indicted on criminal charges was convicted, for minor offenses. Buck said he was "not proud" over the incident that effectively ended his career with the Justice Department, but said he felt "unethical" to prosecute such "weak" cases against the three men. One of three men donated $ 700 for the 2010 Senate Buck campaign.
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Buck was elected District Attorney for Weld County, Colorado in 2004. When he suspected that Social Security numbers were stolen by illegal immigrants, he stormed a tax service in Greeley, Colorado and confiscated over 5,000 tax files. The American Civil Liberties Union sued Buck's office for violating the privacy of a service client and after appealing to the Supreme Court of Colorado, at a cost of about $ 150,000, the attack was considered unconstitutional. Buck said that the time to enforce the law for the Justice Department and Weld District sparked his desire to become a member of parliament himself.
Controversy of rape case
During the 2010 Senate race, The Colorado Independent published an article entitled "Suspect in 2005, Buck's rape case said he knew it was rape,". The article, on Buck's case refusing to prosecute in 2006, included a complete transcript of records between victims and their attackers, including the following dialogue:
Victim: "You realize that... it's a rape."
Suspect: "Yes, I do."
Victim: "As in a number of different ways, because I do not want to do it and because I am drunk and because I am scared."
Suspect: "Yes, I know, I know."
The tape, which the Greeley police had a record of victims during their investigation, was available before Buck made the decision not to prosecute the woman-admitted rapist. According to the following article in Independent , "Buck's refusal to prosecute the 2005 rape case echoed in the US Senate race," the reporter gave another transcript of a conversation between the woman and Buck, where "Buck looks annoyed but blames him for rape and told him that his case would never fly with Weld County jurors. "
"The jury could have concluded that this is a buyer's regret case," he told Greeley Tribune in 2006.
"The comment made me feel terrible," the victim told the Colorado Independent in 2010. "The perpetrator admitted he did it, but Ken Buck said I was to blame him whether he (Buck) did not attack me" has let it go. But he blamed me, and I was very angry. I am still angry, "he said.According to Independent ," A man entered the apartment that allegedly casualties and had sex with him while he was drunk, he said. As she passes through and out of consciousness, she says she tells him "no" and tries to push it. If he's a stranger, his case may be different, but he's an ex-lover, and he invites him. "
In the meeting he recorded, Buck said, "It seems to me... that you invited him to have sex with him," and that he thought he might want to file a rape claim to take revenge against him for some bad things. feelings left over from when they had become lovers more than a year before. According to Independent , "Buck also appears in this recording as being at least as concerned about women's sexual history and alcohol consumption as is the case with other facts."
Drawing on an abortion attitude of Buck, which Independent also points out that "The suspect in this case has claimed that the victim had been at a point a year or more before the event became pregnant with his child and had an abortion." He denies, saying he miscarriage. The suspect's claims, though, in police reports, and Buck call this the reason he might be motivated to file charges in which he thinks nothing is guaranteed. "
United States 2010 Senate campaign
Prime Republican
Angered by what came to be called "the difficulty to the left of the country, Buck announced his plan to run for US senatorship on April 28, 2009. In his first run for the state office, Buck often referred to national issues in defining his goals as US Senator, on Patient Protection and the Affordable Care Act, the Asset Assistance Program (a federal economic stimulus program initiated under President George W. Bush and settled under President Barack Obama) and the role of federal policy czars. "Buck also emphasized the increasing debt of the government, the problem which he often returns across major campaigns. Buck, who contrasts himself with what he has said as a top down style from early favorite Lieutenant Governor Jane Norton, also promised a "bottom-up" campaign that will include visits to each of the 64 counties in Colorado.
Norton initially appears to have an almost insurmountable advantage over "a group of uninformed people" that includes Buck, who at the beginning of the primary season is called "a US senator who died in the water" with a ridiculous amount of fundraising and little support for GOP. " Norton's staff at the start of the campaign were twice the size of Buck, trying to make the virtue of his small war chest by positioning "himself as a small money underdog" in an election cycle that sees "populist impulses for outside candidates to disrupt Washington's stance".
After receiving nearly $ 600,000 in television advertising support from Americans for Work Guarantees and a victory in March in the state party caucus, Buck began receiving support and notices. In late spring of 2010, Colorado has a very competitive Republican and Democratic backers.
Although Buck positioned himself as a candidate for the Tea Party movement during the Republican primary, he caused controversy on time with critical comments against the former Rep. Tom Tancredo, a favorite Tea Party, and a statement "Are you going to tell stupid people in Tea Party to stop asking about birth certificates when I'm on camera?" - a reference to those suspicious of President Barack Obama's birthplace. Buck blamed comments on his exhaustion and frustration after months of campaigning, and in despair that it was difficult to maintain a campaign debate focused on the issue of increasing government debt. Tea Party leader Lu Busse criticized Buck's "choice of words" and the tendency to treat all Tea Party followers as a uniform group.
Buck re-stirs up controversy by suggesting voters should cast their vote to him over Norton because, unlike his rival, "I do not wear high heels." Buck later stated that he was responding to a Norton television advertisement that claimed he was not "enough human" to attack himself. (According to the bulk email, sent on behalf of Senator Jim DeMint, it was a paraphrase that joked from his opponent's suggestion of choosing him, "because I wear high heels").
Making a reference to Buck's mandatory ethical class, Norton argues that he "does not need an ethics class to know what's right.... Ken broke the rules, and the facts speak for themselves." After former Buck supervisor, then-US. Attorney John Suthers, supporting Norton, Colorado Democratic Party chief called for Buck's resignation from his Weld County post for "his career passes justice and ethics to reward political allies and campaign contributors".
On August 10, Buck defeated Norton in Republican primary elections with a 52% to 48% margin, the end of "a fiercely contested primer that took him away from an obscure underdog and cash shortage to a malignant mascot for anti- build conservative [in Colorado] and nationally. "
Senate election
In the November election, Buck was defeated by Senator Michael Bennet, 48.1% to 46.4%.
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2014 elections
On August 19, 2013, Buck emailed his supporters and announced that the lymphoma was diagnosed with remission after treatment and he would fight Senator Mark Udall in 2014. He has filed for run on August 7, 2013, before he sends out an email. In March 2014, Buck retired from the race following the entrance of Rep. Cory Gardner, and decided to nominate House Gardner's seat instead.
Buck won the Republican party, defeating three other candidates, with 44% of the vote and starting winning the election, beating Democratic candidate Vic Meyers with 65% of the vote.
He is a member of the Freedom Caucus.
Committees assignment
- The Committee on Justice
- Subcommittee on Immigration and Border Security
- Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, Homeland Security, and Investigation
- Government Monitoring and Update Committee
- Subcommittee on Government Operations
- Subcommittee on the Interior
- Republic Research Committee
Tenure
Buck voted in favor of the Tax Cut and Jobs Act of 2017. Buck believed the bill was "fairer for American families" and that it would "save more jobs in America." He also said that it will only be the tax code, when the process has been recognized no more simple than the current tax filing process.
Political position
Education
Buck supported the change of the Ministry of Education and questioned the constitutionality of the department. Buck supports the right gun and is supported by the Gun Owners of America. He stated that he would "defy federal law to compile a database of gun owners or to further impede American freedom under the Second Amendment". He also stated that if elected to the Senate he would never raise taxes.
Environment
In an October 2010 meeting with supporters at Fort Collins, Colorado, Buck supported Senator James Inhofe's view, saying "Senator Inhofe is the first person to stand and says global warming is the biggest deception that has been done. people's views, about what happened. "According to a Buck's spokesperson," Ken believes there is global warming but thinks evidence suggests that it is natural rather than man-made. "
Health Care
He opposed the health care reform legislation enacted in 2010. He prefers free market-based reforms. His campaign website states, "We must let the market work, get people accountable for their own insurance, and return American freedom to decide for themselves whether and how much insurance to buy." He supported a state constitutional amendment that would grant the right to an unborn fetus, but later withdrew his support was reported after he discovered that the act would limit certain fertility and contraceptive procedures.
Veterans health
Buck proposes the privatization of Veterans Administration hospitals so they can "run better". Three months later, Buck changed his position and his campaign said, "... while Buck does believe that private sector providers might do a better job than VA in providing health care to veterans, he does not fully support health care privatization for veterans."
Human rights
LGBT Rights
Buck supports the US military's "Do not ask, do not tell" policy. He said, "I do not support repeal do not ask do not say I think it's a very sensible policy." Buck believes that being gay is an option. He said, "I think birth has an influence over it, like alcoholism... but I think you basically have a choice." The Log Cabin Republicans has reprimanded him for this comment.
Neutrality neutral
Buck signed his support for Ajit Pai's movement to remove Net-Neutrality, along with 106 other Republican representatives. When asked about Pai's job to reveal the rules of net neutrality, Buck said: "I support Chairman Pai's effort to free internet providers from incriminating regulations that hamper innovation and increase fees for Coloradans."
Social issues
Abortion
Buck opposes abortion, including in cases of rape and incest, but makes an exception if the mother's life is in danger.
Personal life
Buck married his girlfriend Princeton in 1984, and they divorced in 1994. His mother introduced him to his current wife, Perry Lynn Buck, after meeting him at a gathering for an antique collector; they married in 1996. Previously a successful banker and entrepreneur, Perry Buck had "left most of his professional life" to support her husband in the Senate campaign. She has two children from her first marriage. Son Cody (born 1988) is a graduate of the 2011 US Military Academy in West Point, New York. Princess Kaitlin (born 1991) received college credit for her work on her father's 2010 Senate campaign.
References
External links
- Ken Buck's official kenman web site
- Ken Buck for the official campaign website of Congress
- Ken Buck in Curlie (based on DMOZ)
- Biography at the Directory of Congressional Biographies of the United States
- Profile in Vote Smart
- Financial information (federal office) at the Federal Electoral Commission
- Rules are sponsored in the Library of Congress
- Appearance in C-SPAN
- Campaign contributions at OpenSecrets.org
- News and comments collected at The Washington Times
- Political Polygraph: Examination of facts Ken Buck, Elizabeth Miller, The Denver Post , August 14, 2010
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