House Repub (CO) won't run for reelection

Article Launched: 02/16/2006 1:00 AM MST

Hefley won't run for reelection

By Mike Soraghan
Denver Post Staff Writer

Washington - Joel Hefley was once judged one of the most obscure members of Congress. What fame he won in recent years outside his district came from the job he hated most: policing the behavior of his fellow lawmakers.

But all of that took a back seat to his main mission in his 10 terms in Congress: saving Fort Carson.

"The preservation of Fort Carson is certainly the center of his congressional legacy," said Sarah Shelden, his longtime press secretary, now a public affairs executive in California. "Even going back to his time in the state legislature, Carson has been at the center."

Colorado Springs got a scare a decade ago when Fort Carson - the sprawling Army post south of the city and the state's second-largest employer - was threatened in the first round of military base closures, and Hefley set out to make sure that wouldn't happen again.

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