Wellington Webb

August 27, 2008 - 9:48am

Former Denver mayor injects an issue into New Jersey Senate race

DENVER – As unlikely as it sounds, the former Mayor of Denver has raised a campaign issue in the New Jersey U.S. Senate race.

After praising Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s (D-Cliffside Park) help in securing funding to build the Denver International Airport in the 1990s in a speech to the New Jersey delegation yesterday morning, former Mayor Wellington Webb joked that a wing of the facility should be named after him.

That brought a harsh response yesterday from former U.S. Rep. Dick Zimmer, who called him “Colorado’s third Senator.” Zimmer has made his anti-pork credentials central to his Senate candidacy against Lautenberg.

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August 26, 2008 - 3:36pm

Denver International Airport's Lautenberg wing

Frank Lautenberg may have had to settle for having a train station named after him instead of Newark Airport, but former Denver Mayor Wellington Web joked today that he may yet get his name on part of an airport – just not one in New Jersey. 

Webb addressed the New Jersey delegation at their breakfast this morning. 

“We decided to build a new airport and didn’t have the money to do it.  We found a great advocate for us in Senator Frank Lautenberg,” said Webb, the first and only African-American Mayor of Denver.  “As a matter of fact, a wing of that airport should be named after Frank Lautenberg.”

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