Profile of the cousins Udall

Mark is the Congressman from Colorado's 2nd District and is running for a U.S. Senate here. His cousin Tom is the Congressman from New Mexico's 2nd Districts and is running for a U.S. Senate seat there. They come from a family with a long and storied history in Western U.S. politics.

In These Times has a nice profile on the two cousins and the family they come from,

It’s a common joke out in the Mountain states: the Udalls are “the Kennedys of the West.” Terry Bracy, chairman of the Morris K. Udall Foundation and a longtime family friend, thinks the comparison is misguided. “They never acquired any wealth and never sought any wealth,” he says. “They were interested in the essentials of life. Maybe it came from their heritage.”