A spokesman for the Colorado Democratic Party apologized Friday for launching a misleading attack against Sen. Don Coram, R-Montrose.

State party spokesman Eric Walker attacked Coram for a remark he made earlier in the week during a debate about a bill aimed at preventing youth suicide.

“I was just going to say I guess the positive side is, is uh, if we have enough suicides, we can save cost of education,” Coram said.

The context that’s missing is: Coram was the sponsor of the suicide prevention bill in question – and he made this quip as an insult to his colleagues who were about to vote to kill that bill.

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