Gardner will fight to stop the accounting tricks strangling state budgets and tax payers, said Bauer.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Former presidential candidate Gary L. Bauer this week endorsed Cory Gardner for Congress in Colorado's 4th District, calling him a "committed conservative who will unapologetically defend the commonsense values of the American people."

Bauer, a veteran of the Reagan White House, is chairman of the Campaign for Working Families, one of America's leading conservative political action committees. CWF recently announced a target list of more than two dozen races in which conservatives are poised to take leadership in key offices.

"America faces tremendous challenges in the years ahead," Bauer said. "We need bold, new ideas, and the Denver Post has recognized Gardner as 'the GOP Idea Man.' While this Congress is mired in partisan bickering, Cory Gardner will bring fresh, innovating thinking to Washington. As a fifth-generation Coloradan, Cory Gardner won't forget where he comes from. He will promote free enterprise policies that put Colorado taxpayers first, and he will fight to reduce the size and scope of the federal government, which is the source of so much uncertainty for small businesses today."

Bauer noted that Gardner's willingness to fight for smaller government and less obtrusive government is a vital qualification for office in this economy.

"While the socialist experiment in Big Government is collapsing in Europe right before our eyes, the Obama Administration is growing the government, expanding entitlements, producing record deficits and adding trillions of dollars to the national debt," Bauer said. "Nancy Pelosi and the liberal Democrats have controlled the House of Representatives for four years. In that time, government spending has skyrocketed, unemployment is up and the American people are losing hope. Rep. Betsy Markey has been a reliable vote for Pelosi's agenda of bigger government, more spending and higher taxes. It's time to bring real change to Washington, D.C. by electing Cory Gardner to Congress."

The Campaign for Working Families (CWF) exists for the express purpose of supporting candidates who will proudly promote conservative values, such as the defense of the traditional family, the sanctity of human life and the promotion of individual liberty and free enterprise.

SOURCE Campaign for Working Families