Jared Polis for Congress

Jared Polis fired off an attack Wednesday on congressional opponent Joan Fitz-Gerald after digging up her 4-year-old state Senate votes in support of ousting Saddam Hussein and another backing President Bush.

Polis’ strike helped escalate the Iraq war to the top of the Democratic campaign agenda in the liberal 2nd Congressional District, which includes Boulder and other mountain towns.

Polis, a former state school board member, contends he was protesting the war in 2003 when Fitz-Gerald, now state Senate president, voted for a resolution that supported President Bush and his “unwavering determination to either disarm Saddam Hussein or remove him from power.”

“I was quite upset that one of our candidates for U.S. Congress supported George Bush’s war,” Polis said of his decision to challenge Fitz-Gerald on those votes.

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