A Colorado newspaper publisher 'got obliterated' on Election Night

Smashed. Hammered. Completely wrecked.

That was the state in which a small rural newspaper publisher found himself by 11 p.m. on Election Night — in full view of thousands of people.

But, no, it wasn’t the effects of boozy beverages for Jordan Hedberg, 37, who owns and runs the weekly Wet Mountain Tribune in the small southern Colorado town of Westcliffe.

“I did not just lose this election,” he said on social media shortly before midnight on Tuesday. “I got obliterated against a candidate who ran no campaign other than being GOP.”

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