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This story was produced as part of the Colorado Capitol News Alliance. It first appeared at\u00a0<\/em>cpr.org<\/em>.<\/em><\/p>\n

The first of the three believes the state Capitol is awash in pedophiles. The second says he helped kill a man when he was just 7 years old, though there is no evidence of the crime. The third has been a political insider for much of her adult life, but now says she can fix what is wrong with Colorado.<\/p>\n

One of them will be the Republican nominee for Colorado governor.<\/p>\n

A Republican hasn\u2019t won a statewide office in Colorado since 2014, as the state has trended toward Democrats over the last decade. And Bill Owens is the only Republican elected governor in the past half-century. So some political realists believe that whoever secures the nomination will have their greatest impact on competitive down-ballot races.<\/p>\n

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\u201cEven if the Republican nominee for governor is not winning, they have to be somebody who\u2019s not dragging down the rest of the ticket,\u201d said Dick Wadhams, the former chairman of the Republican Party in Colorado. \u201cAnd that matters a great deal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Scott Bottoms<\/strong><\/h2>\n

At the top of the Republican ballot is two-term State Rep. Scott Bottoms, a Colorado Springs pastor who claims, without presenting any evidence publicly, that Democrats are \u201cbuying children.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are still pursuing the pedophilia in this building,\u201d said Bottoms, in a recent interview at the Capitol. \u201cI have been saying that for three years.\u201d<\/p>\n

He would only provide evidence to the FBI because he doesn\u2019t trust state law enforcement. As governor, Bottoms said he would \u201cclean out the corruption in this state.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bottoms has been a pastor at Church at Briargate in Colorado Springs since 2012, and he holds advanced degrees from small Christian schools, including a doctorate in ministry.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I\u2019ve been is a pastor,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s been very boring for the last 35 years.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born in Colorado but raised in Texas, Bottoms said he joined the Navy when he was 17 years old and entered the ministry at 20 while still in the Navy. Out of the Navy, he said he worked in congregations in southern Colorado before leading Church at Briargate.<\/p>\n

Bottoms describes himself as having always been \u201cpolitically charged,\u201d but didn\u2019t seriously consider running for office until the House District 15 seat opened in 2022. Dave Williams, the former party chair, previously held the seat and was among those who encouraged Bottoms to run.<\/p>\n

A colleague in the House, Rep. Stephanie Luck, asked him to pray on it, and Bottoms and his wife visited the Capitol, prayed, and felt strongly that he should run. He easily won the heavily Republican district, which covers the suburbs east of Colorado Springs.<\/p>\n

Bottoms has little to show for his time in the legislature, if the measure is passing legislation.<\/p>\n

He ran bills like prohibiting gender-affirming care or regulating abortion clinics. In an interview, he initially said he hadn\u2019t passed a single bill since coming to the legislature, but he corrected himself: He\u2019s listed as a prime sponsor for the \u201cIn God We Trust\u201d license plate bill that was signed by Gov. Jared Polis. But he downplayed that accomplishment, saying it \u201cwas not my bill\u201d and that lawmakers had put his name on it as a kind of leverage over him.<\/p>\n

Bottoms did not back down from claims that Democrats are \u201cbuying children.\u201d Bottoms would not provide any names or evidence, but said that he had first forwarded the allegations to the FBI outside of Colorado, then, more recently, sent the information to the FBI in Colorado. A spokesperson for the FBI said the agency doesn\u2019t comment on contacts with individuals.<\/p>\n

He said he doesn\u2019t trust the Colorado State Patrol or the Colorado Bureau of Investigation to follow up on the allegations, citing what he described as connections to the governor\u2019s office. As governor, he said he would root out the corruption in the state, including in state law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Bottoms said as governor, he would also cut taxes, roll back regulations, and expand the oil and gas industry. He would get rid of all diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, programs, and would have freed former Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters on day one. She is currently serving a prison sentence for a security breach at her office, following the 2020 election, but Polis took the air out of that campaign pledge when he commuted her sentence last week. Bottoms said he would go a step further and pardon Peters, erasing her conviction.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re going to make sure that Tina Peters is free and that she\u2019s completely commuted, pardoned completely,\u201d said Bottoms.<\/p>\n

Victor Marx<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Next on the ballot is Victor Marx, a political newcomer, who claims he participated in a homicide when he was 7 years old. In an interview, he said his stepfather took him to a rural area of Mendenhall, Mississippi and ordered him to kill a man.<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, I was made to shoot a man who I watched get buried, and that affected me deeply most of my life,\u201d said Marx. \u201cWhich is why I went to 123 visits to a trauma specialist. And I\u2019ve been on Depakote, Depakine, Prozac, so I\u2019ve been on the medications. But I think I\u2019m living proof that you can rise above being a victim and be victorious.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marx runs a ministry nonprofit called\u00a0All Things Possible\u00a0for \u201chunting predators as well as rescuing, restoring and empowering women and children who have been held captive by traffickers and other abusers,\u201d according to its website.<\/p>\n

Marx has about three million followers across Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and X. He has posted viral videos where he\u00a0disarms people holding a dummy firearm to his head. He calls himself a \u201chigh-risk humanitarian,\u201d delivering dried milk and toys to war-torn, impoverished nations like Iraq and Haiti. He said he was given the moniker \u201cThe Milkman of Mosul.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yet he was unknown to many within the Colorado Republican Party when he announced that he would run for governor.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo it was really my bride that said, \u2018babe, either you have to get into some aspect of politics, run for a position to help change the state for better or leave,\u2019\u201d Marx said in an interview from his podcast studio on his property in Black Forest.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe love Colorado, we love the people, but the affordability became a real issue. And safety. Safety has affected us,\u201d Marx said. \u201cSomeone tried to, I know, tried to kill me right on our property.\u201d<\/p>\n

Authorities believe that it was a family dispute.<\/p>\n

In 2023, Marx went to check on his brother-in-law, Kenneth Breining, who was living in a trailer on the property. According to an arrest affidavit, Breining shot at Marx from inside the trailer. Marx was not hit. Breining also shot two more rounds while an El Paso County deputy was on scene, before he was taken into custody, according to court records. Breining bonded out and was later implicated in a woman\u2019s murder in Nevada County, California, where he remains in jail.<\/p>\n

Breining\u2019s attempted murder case is still open in Colorado.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s just one of the extraordinary, cinematic stories that weave through Marx\u2019s life. Born in Louisiana, Marx said he was tortured by his stepfather. That same stepfather was the one who compelled Marx, at just 7 years old, by his telling, to kill a man in a rural area of Mendenhall, Mississippi.<\/p>\n

Sheriff and police authorities in that part of Mississippi told CPR News they had no information on any unsolved homicides from that time. Many years later, Marx said a friend at the FBI told him there was little he could do decades later, especially since Marx had no more details. Still, Marx called the sheriff, he said, and told them what he could. There are no available reports of that contact.<\/p>\n

Marx said he joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1983 after the Beirut bombing attack that killed 241 U.S. personnel. After spending three years in the military, he worked in ministry in Southern California, ran a martial arts gym in Hawaii, and was an assistant for three years for Dr. James Dobson at Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family. Marx now runs his ministry nonprofit with his family, which says it helps women and children escape dangerous situations, among other things.<\/p>\n

Marx said as governor, he would focus on affordability and public safety. He\u2019d cut regulations to expand housing and childcare. He would work to increase energy production to lower utility costs. He would cooperate with federal immigration authorities (though he has not offered details on how he would square that with Colorado laws prohibiting such cooperation), and he promises to launch a task force on fentanyl and trafficking networks.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s going to have to be a little bit of house cleaning. There\u2019s going to have to be hard decisions made if we want to make our state affordable and safe again,\u201d said Marx.<\/p>\n

Marx may be little known within the party establishment, but he dominates campaign contributions in the Republican primary. His fundraising total of more than $2.5 million is more than Kirkmeyer ($549,498) and Bottoms ($223,092) combined.<\/p>\n

Barbara Kirkmeyer<\/strong><\/h2>\n

The last name on the GOP ballot is State Sen. Barb Kirkmeyer, who has spent most of her working life in government, five terms as a Weld County commissioner, an administrator for former Republican Gov. Bill Owens, and six years as a state senator, where she\u2019s been a respected voice on budget issues as a member of the Joint Budget Committee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think people want a common sense conservative who can go in there and whip that budget into shape and start figuring out how we can lower taxes, lower the fees, and roll back the regulations that are making our lives so much unaffordable,\u201d said Kirkmeyer in an interview.<\/p>\n

Kirkmeyer was confident that her fundraising would be enough, and now that the legislature has wrapped up, she will have more time to devote to the campaign. She is a leading conservative voice in the General Assembly, routinely jabbing Democrats for what she says is making a mess of the budget.<\/p>\n

As a member of the Joint Budget Committee, which does a lot of the heavy lifting on preparing a balanced budget every year, her days have been full through the session. Partly because she\u2019s on the JBC, which writes the budget and sponsors budget-related bills, her legislative record is extensive.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not that I\u2019m just a fighter or budget hawk. I\u2019ve actually accomplished things in this state that delivered for the state of Colorado,\u201d said Kirkmeyer, who has passed legislation, working with Democrats at times to secure funding for law enforcement, expand the rape shield law, and ban state nondisclosure agreements.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I do work across the aisle, and it\u2019s for what I believe the betterment for opportunities for children and the betterment of the people of the state of Colorado.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kirkmeyer grew up on a dairy farm in Jefferson County, went to CU Boulder, and came to work in agriculture in Weld County. She was inspired to run for office after her Weld County commissioner was dismissive of concerns from her rural area. As a five-term commissioner, across two different stints with the county, she was a passionate advocate for oil and gas and agriculture.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not just about the jobs, though. It\u2019s also just about how it strengthens our communities and strengthens our economy,\u201d said Kirkmeyer.<\/p>\n

She has many of the establishment endorsements, from former Attorney General John Suthers to former Gov. Bill Owens. But Kirkmeyer resisted the \u201cestablishment\u201d label, instead saying those endorsements were because they know her and know she can \u201cget things accomplished\u201d as governor.<\/p>\n

Kirkmeyer said she\u2019s uniquely qualified to cut waste and fees and rein in spending at state agencies. She would freeze non-essential hiring as governor and get rid of burdensome regulations affecting housing, energy and grocery costs.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust let me be governor,\u201d Kirkmeyer said. \u201cI\u2019ll get our budget in shape within six months.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Wadhams, the race comes down to whether Bottoms and Marx split the vote among the hardest of hard-core conservative Trump voters, while Kirkmeyer is propelled to a win by moderates and crossover unaffiliated voters. Bottoms joined a lawsuit to prevent unaffiliated voters from participating in the June 30 Republican primary, but\u00a0it was rejected\u00a0by a judge.<\/p>\n

\u201cI see Bottoms and Marx are both competing for, in some ways, the same part of the Republican Party,\u201d Wadhams said, adding that could benefit Kirkmeyer because she \u201cis the only candidate that does not come from that MAGA wing of the party.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ballots will go in the mail starting June 8.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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