Colorado Rep. Mark Udall, locked in a tough battle for a Senate seat, nabbed a spot under the national spotlight tonight at the Democratic National Convention.
“It’s fitting to have the eyes of the nation on Colorado,” said the Eldorado Springs Democrat, who was wearing a bolo tie. “It’s fitting that the change we need in Washington starts here in the Rocky Mountain West. We look to our mountains and prairies, our wide-open skies and we see the limitless possibility that is America.”
Udall said Obama has spent his whole life “standing up for working men and women” and that vice presidential hopeful Joe Biden has “never forgotten where he comes from.”
“Here at the foot of the great Rocky Mountains, our greatest mountains, we need leaders to match these mountains,” he said.
Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine, leading a traditionally Republican state that will be critical this election, said faith in the American dream pushes Obama and Biden to “strive for better schools, economic justice and smarter foreign policies.”
“Aren’t we all tired of a Washington that doesn’t have any faith in us?” he asked the crowd. “We need to put our faith into action, to elect a president who will put middle-class Americans first again.”
