Senate Conservatives Fund

Colorado U.S. Senate candidate Bob Schaffer is emerging as a likely beneficiary of the Senate Conservatives Fund, a political action committee founded by U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) that launched this week.

DeMint, who said this week that the fund was designed to benefit Republican candidates who adhered to a down-the-line conservative philosophy, was friends with Schaffer when the two occupied seats in the U.S. House, Schaffer campaign manager Dick Wadhams noted.

Wesley Denton, a spokesman for the Senate Conservatives Fund, tells PolitickerCO.com that in the next several weeks, the organization would be making decisions about which candidates it would be supporting. But he acknowledged that Schaffer was a contender. “I certainly think he’s under consideration,” Denton said.