In Colorado, McCain Hauled out of Deep by Romney. Posted by Matt, ThinkProgress, August 20, 2008. "Last week, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) walked into a bipartisan wave of condemnation in Colorado when he told the Pueblo Chieftain that the 1922 Colorado River Compact, which governs the allocation of the river's water among seven states, 'needs to be renegotiated over time'… Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO)… [said] that opening [the Compact] up 'would only happen over my dead body'… [and] Senate candidate… Rep. Bob Schaffer (R-CO) agreed, telling the Grand Junction Sentinel, 'Over my cold, dead political carcass.' The Denver Post editorialized that McCain 'displayed a disturbing ignorance of the realities of the West's scarce water resources.' Now… Mitt Romney is claiming that McCain didn't mean what he said, [saying to 9News,] 'Senator McCain has no interest in reopening the compact… [He] believes as I do that a compact that's been worked out between the governors and between the states is the right way to go'… Salazar's Press Secretary Matt Lee-Ashley responded… [saying,] 'Either Senator McCain is so out of touch with Western water issues that he needs the former Massachusetts governor to defend him, or he really has some interest in overhauling the law of the river that has been in place since 1922. Both scenarios are troubling.'"
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