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"Big picture, it's unknown what the impact of this canceled voter list is."
Bob Beauprez Reflects On Election, Investigation
(CBS4) DENVER The Colorado Bureau of Investigation said it's completed their investigation into the leak of restricted crime database information to the Bob Beauprez gubernatorial campaign.
Meanwhile, Beauprez said he doesn't expect he nor anyone else from his campaign will be punished.
"At least as far as I know, and what they're implicating to me, there's no reason to suspicion that myself, John Marshall nor my campaign has done anything wrong," Beauprez said.
He remains fiercely loyal to those who ran his campaign and their strategies that were constantly second-guessed.
"I guess when you come in second you could always say it was someone else's fault," Beauprez said.
Since the election, Beauprez has seen research that shows the unaffiliated voters in the state, which are 1/3 of all the voters, went at least 7 to 1 for the Democrats. It was about 9 to 1 for unaffiliated women voters.
"It just never seemed like we could get on offense," Beauprez said. "It was just perpetually, kind of reacting to things, and some things out of your control.
Beauprez said he was hurt by voter dissatisfaction with Republicans in general and the war in particular.
"My consultants told me not since Watergate had they seen the electorate, especially unaffiliated voters, so polarized and as a candidate, you always think 'well, I can overcome that,'" Beauprez said.
He also made no apology to those who wanted him to distance himself from the president.
"To distance myself from the president in my party that helped me get where I got, that would be less than genuine," Beauprez said.
The 58-year-old said he'll miss his job in Congress and might run for office again but maybe for the U.S. Senate.
"We'd take a serious look at almost any opportunity including that one, I suppose," Beauprez said.
One of the first things he'll do with his wife Claudia is move from his present home in Arvada back to Lafayette, to the homestead that was his father's farm.
They also have four grandchildren and a fifth one on the way to keep them busy.
The CBI said it won't release their results until the FBI finishes its own separate investigation.
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