Ken Buck is ramping up his fall campaign effort with the addition of John Swartout as campaign manager:

GOP Senate candidate Ken Buck is bringing on John Swartout, an old political heavyweight with a heart in land conservation, to run his campaign.
Swartout’s enigmatic career has blended ranch and open space preservation with Republican politics.
He is now the executive director of the Colorado Coalition of Land Trusts, where he has been since March 2009.
“This is probably the most important election in my lifetime and I really think people in Colorado know what’s at stake,” Swartout said. “Will the next generation have the same opportunity this generation has? I think the sense of that is slipping away. There is enormous debt and an extraordinary amount of spending that we don’t have money for.” […]
Swartout said he believes in Buck because he’s “authentic.”
“If he makes a mistake, he says he made a mistake,” he said. “He’s an authentic person, which is why I think he’s attracting support.”

Swartout has deep political roots in Colorado, and helped Sen. Wayne Allard’s reelection efforts in 2002, among other prominent political campaigns.

According to Buck’s Facebook page, former campaign manager Kay Rendleman will stay on as a consultant.

Last week, Buck announced the addition of powerhouse GOP fundraiser Janel Domenico to his team.