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ck t trtait caai cti r | Pa 11 9 ti r i r rt a t i i iiti r ith the sustainability report card Men’s basketball starts with released, Rams walk away with a B an 88-48 win at Moby THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN Fort Collins, Colorado Volume 119 | No. 60 Wednesday, November 3, 2010 COLLEGIAN www.collegian.com THE STUDENT VOICE OF COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY SINCE 1891 BRINGIN’ DOWN THE HOUSE Gardner defeats Markey for seat By KIRSTEN SILVEIRA The Rocky Mountain Collegian State Rep. Corey Gardner, R-Yuma, reclaimed the U.S. House of Representatives seat for Republicans, knocking Democratic incumbent Betsy Markey from her 2-year reign of Colorado’s 4th Congressional District. Gardner’s decisive win falls in line with the national trend of Republicans taking control the U.S. House from Democrat- ic hands. Nationally, Democrats lost 58 House seats –– leaving the breakdown with Republi- cans controlling 234 of the 435 seats with 21 undecided at the time of print. Gardner, who had 53.5 per- cent of the district votes with 86 percent reported at the time of print, told the Collegian “we’ve got a lot of work to do,” and he intends to establish a sound- board of students to “fi nd out what we can do for them while they’re in college.” CHASE BAKER | COLLEGIAN Gardner, who graduated from CSU in 1997, grew up in Cory Gardner talks with reporters Tuesday night after being elected to the U .S. House of Representatives. Gardner edged out Democrat rural Yuma and was elected to incumbent Betsy Markey, who held the seat in 4 th Congressional District for two years, for the position.
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