Ken Buck’s empty seat leaves Colorado’s Eastern Plains with no voice in Congress. Will it matter?

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Ken Buck’s empty seat leaves Colorado’s Eastern Plains with no voice in Congress. Will it matter?

For the first time in more than 40 years, a congressional district in Colorado is without a voice in the U.S. House of Representatives. In 1983, a seat sat vacant because Jack Swigert, a former astronaut on the Apollo 13 who was elected the previous November, died of cancer one week before taking office. This time around, it’s because Republican Ken Buck stepped down from Congress late last month — more than nine months before the end of his fif…