Scott Tipton
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Scott Tipton is the owner of a Pottery Company and a Republican Party activist from Cortez, Colorado. He is the Republican Party Chairman (since 1997) and was the Republican candidate for Colorado's third U.S. House district for the 2006 elections.
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[edit] Life and career
Born in Espanola, New Mexico in 1956, and raised in Cortez, Tipton earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Ft. Lewis College. In 1979, he founded the Mesa Verde Indian Pottery Company, a company he still owns and runs today. In addition to his pottery company, he also owns and manages Tipton Properties, a local real estate business.
Tipton and his wife, Jean, have been married for more than twenty-three years. They have two children, Liesl and Elizabeth. Liesl is a student at the University of Denver, and Elizabeth is a junior at Montezuma-Cortez High School.
[edit] Political Life
A lifelong Republican, Tipton became involved in the Ronald Reagan for President Campaign in 1976 and was a delegate to the Republican Covention that year. He also assisted and run local campaigns for Reagan in 1980 and 1984 across his home Montezuma County, Colorado and the 3rd Congressional District. He later served as the County Party Chairman of Montezuma County, and currently is the Party Chairman of the 3rd Congressional District.
[edit] 2006 Election
In 2006, Tipton challenged the then Freshman Democrat Congressman John Salazar. Tipton lost the election, 129,833 to 78,318
