Republican Bob Beauprez implied that his Democratic gubernatorial opponent, Bill Ritter, is a city slicker while stumping Monday in Grand Junction.

Beauprez, 58, said that Ritter, 50, had spent "virtually his whole life in the city and county of Denver."

Beauprez's math is off by 28 years:

16 years Ritter spends his boyhood in Arapahoe County.

2 years Ritter goes to Texas to attend Catholic seminary.

7 years Ritter attends Colorado State University then the University of Colorado for his law degree.

6 years Ritter lives in Denver, working for the district attorney's office.

3 years Ritter lives in Zambia, Africa, as a lay missionary.

16 years Time Ritter has lived in Denver since returning from Africa

As for Beauprez,

53 years Beauprez grows up in Boulder County on the family farm in Lafayette, attends CU, returns to the farm.

5 years Beauprez splits time between Washington, D.C., and Jefferson County, where he moved so he could run for Congress.

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