46 Facts About Bob Schaffer

Robert Warren Schaffer was born on July 24,1962 and is a Republican former member of the United States House of Representatives from the State of Colorado in the 105th Congress and the two succeeding Congresses.

Bob Schaffer was co-chairman of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus, and an outspoken leader in promoting American interests and human rights in Eastern Europe.

Bob Schaffer is currently Headmaster of Liberty Common High School in Fort Collins, Colorado.

In 2004, Bob Schaffer lost in the primary election to be the Republican nominee for a US Senate seat.

Bob Schaffer was the Republican nominee for Colorado's other Senate seat in the 2008 election, which he lost to Democratic nominee Mark Udall.

The son of public-school teachers, Bob Schaffer worked his way through college as a farm hand.

Bob Schaffer was later awarded an honorary doctorate in Management from Colorado Technical University.

Bob Schaffer served for nine years as a Colorado State Senator in the Colorado General Assembly.

Bob Schaffer was only 25 years old in 1987 when he was appointed to finish Colorado State Senator Jim Beatty's term, making Bob Schaffer the youngest to serve in Colorado's Senate.

Bob Schaffer was awarded the "National Republican Legislator of the Year for 1995" by the National Republican Legislators Association.

Bob Schaffer was first elected to the US Congress in November 1996 representing Colorado's 4th congressional district, succeeding Wayne Allard and Hank Brown.

Bob Schaffer served three terms in Congress, fulfilling the three-term pledge he made during his first Congressional campaign.

Bob Schaffer led no fewer than four congressional delegations to Ukraine, and offered an ultimately unsuccessful balanced budget resolution and amendment.

Bob Schaffer was described as fiscally and socially conservative and to the right of the center of the party.

Bob Schaffer was succeeded by Marilyn Musgrave in January 2003.

Bob Schaffer is of Ukrainian heritage, the son of a Ukrainian immigrant to the United States.

Bob Schaffer was co-founder and co-chair of the Congressional Ukrainian Caucus.

Bob Schaffer served as an election observer in Ukraine during parliamentary election 2002 and presidential election 2004.

In 2010, Bob Schaffer was appointed principal of Liberty Common High School, a college-preparatory charter school in the Poudre School District in Fort Collins, Colorado.

In 2017, Bob Schaffer was appointed headmaster of both Liberty Common High School and Liberty Common School, its elementary counterpart.

Bob Schaffer was vice-president for business development at Aspect Energy, LLC.

Bob Schaffer was a board member on the National Alternative Fuels Foundation, but environmental groups released attack ads during the 2008 US Senate race highlighting Shcaffer's congressional vote which gave $2.5 billion to alternative energy research and a much larger amount to traditional energy research and tax credits.

Bob Schaffer served as president of the Parental Alliance for Choice in Education, a non-profit corporation promoting school choice reform in Colorado's public education system, and is active in the state's transformation to a market-driven education system.

Bob Schaffer has been chairman of the Leadership Program of the Rockies, a nonprofit corporation that provides economic education and civic-leadership training in Colorado.

Bob Schaffer is a regular columnist for the Fort Collins Coloradoan daily newspaper.

Bob Schaffer was an opinion columnist for the now-defunct Northern Colorado Courier.

Since 2003, Bob Schaffer has been chairman of Leadership Program of the Rockies, a nonprofit organization providing economic education and civic-leadership training in Colorado.

In March 2005, Bob Schaffer was elected Republican National Committeeman for Colorado.

Bob Schaffer was appointed to fill a vacancy on the Colorado State Board of Education by a party vacancy committee, representing a district that is coterminous with the state's Fourth Congressional District.

Bob Schaffer successfully ran for the seat in 2006, against Democrat Tom Griggs.

In January, 2009, Bob Schaffer was made chairman of the Colorado State Board of Education with a unanimous decision of the four Republican and three Democratic board members.

Fellow board members elected Bob Schaffer to continue his chairmanship in 2011.

Bob Schaffer maintained the position throughout the debating of the measure that parents are in the best position to make decisions about their children's safety.

In early 2011, Bob Schaffer took heat from Democratic State Board of Education member Mary Johnson.

Bob Schaffer is the Colorado Chairman of the Judicial Confirmation Network.

In 2006, Bob Schaffer founded Dreamsoft Colorado, LLC, a firm that creates high-end interactive websites for business and political clients.

Bob Schaffer is the President of AMDG LLC As a member of the Fort Collins, Colorado community, he owned a small business.

In 2004, Bob Schaffer contended for the Republican nomination to the US Senate after incumbent Republican Ben Nighthorse Campbell chose not to run for re-election.

Coors entered the bitter primary battle after Bob Schaffer faced down potential contenders such as David Liniger, founder of ReMax.

Bob Schaffer was the Republican nominee for the open seat of retiring Senator Wayne Allard.

On May 9,2007, Bob Schaffer filed his official statement of candidacy with the Federal Elections Commission.

On September 28,2008, Udall and Bob Schaffer appeared on Meet the Press's Senate Debate series, discussing the proposed bailout of the US financial system.

In 2001, then-congressman Bob Schaffer voted for President Bush's energy plan that Democrats argued was a $33 billion gift to the oil corporations.

Bob Schaffer was allegedly linked to the Mariana Islands worker abuse scandal by his association with the Traditional Values Coalition.

Bob Schaffer criticized the Denver Post's reporting, asserting that he had no contact with the individuals in the report, including Jack Abramoff.

Bob Schaffer claimed that he spoke with local clergy who denied there was a problem of forced abortions in the Northern Marianas, the only area of the United States where abortion is banned by their local constitution.