Bucher Chalks Up Loss to Money

Paul Bucher complained that "elections can be bought" and his loss to J.B. Van Hollen -- who put $700,000 of his own money into the GOP AG primary -- "tells me elections are for sale."

"How can you compete with that? It's pretty clear he was down in the polls and decided to put in the money. ... I'm not going to mortgage my life for this job," Bucher said, taking a swipe at Van Hollen, who got half of the money from a second mortgage on his home.

Bucher said that he felt he was right on the issues and was confident his name recognition would have been enough.

"Apparently not," he said. "And so we move on to the next step. I'm proud of what we have done. I have no regrets."

Listen to an interview with Bucher after his concession speech:
http://www.wispolitics.com/1006/Bucher__Post_Primary.wav

-- David Wise