CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
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President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
90%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
90%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
(R) Ron Hanks
40%
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CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
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CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
90%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) Brittany Pettersen
85%↑
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
(R) Janak Joshi
60%↑
35%↓
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State Senate Majority
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November 11, 2008 07:08 PM UTC
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Or else this might be what happens to the Republican Party:
If we had a stronger Food & Drug Administration, tragedies like that wouldn’t happen.
I was just about to find that…good stuff.
“He chose..poorly”
The party in Larimer County was taken over long ago. That’s why Democrats have been winning for many years up there. The only District Lundberg can win in a general is the one he represents. But the party aparatus is so right wing that he will be appointed to the State Senate anyway. I could be proved wrong, but I don’t think so.
The Larimer County Republican Party is controlled by the social/religious conservatives. This just means another Republican senator chasing paranoid visions of “socialists” running our national and state governments. As the Economist said in the latest edition:
“But, as a Democracy Corps poll revealed last month, today’s Republican activists live in a different mental world from the rest of the electorate: a world in which Ms. Palin was a good choice, in which their candidate has been too mealy-mouthed in making his case, and in which the Repbulican Party needs to move to the right to win elections.” The Economist, Nov. 8th-14th, 2008 at p. 50.
The Larimer County Republican activists fit this definition and Mr. Lundberg will fulfill their wildest fantasies about where the Party should be in the future.
since he’s my current Rep and would end up being my State Senator.
But, I have to admit to you Craig, I think you’re dead on, although let’s remember that the Larimer County GOP did pick businessman Marostica over the hand picked right wing fundie successor in 2006, after that crazy guy who loved to forward racist emails got kicked out and tried to hand pick his Lundberg like successor.
Who still shows up at the state capitol from time to time like he’s still in the legislature…go figure.
Does he really still show up there? Eeeww. Creepy.
Jim Roberts, the guy who claimed that there black helicopters monitoring our whereabouts
Has anyone heard from him since he divulged the flightplans of the black helicopters? No? Let that be a lesson to paranoid nutcases everywhere.
After leaving office, didn’t he offer to negotiate between the F.B.I. and a militia group in Montana?
They don’t make them like Charlie Duke!
What IS Lundberg’s proposal for revitalizing the Republican party in Colorado?
What have they been missing that he can so ably provide?
Though he wins in his district, he underperforms. Much as Musgrave underperformed in elections a generic republican, Lundberg is too far right for his district. While folks in Larimer might be conservative, most of them believe in science–Lundberg is a flat earther.
Lundberg was on my list of gettable seats in the house because he was so out of step with his district.
he wins the Senate appointment. I can’t really think of a Republican in our House District for the position. At least, no names are leaping to my mind.
Guess What? It’ll be another Lundberg clone. That’s all they know. They don’t care if they lose the general election. They’d rather lose the general than let another “RINO” through to legislature. Those people are worse than Democrats (snark).
But again, and I’ve now asked several posters in this thread and have yet to receive an answer–who? Specifically, who? Name one person. I’ll be honest. I can’t think of anyone on the Republican horizon that has been expressing interest in Lundberg’s seat. I can think of one person locally that might fit the bill but I hesitate to put his name in writing.
Any ideas?
Isn’t he a centrist GOPer?
I hadn’t thought of him. I wonder if the local GOP likes him enough to consider him, since he’s fairly moderate.
Good thinking, Libertad.
McCluskey just lost a rubber match race to Kefalas, wouldn’t be eliible to replace Lundberg.
Marostica? Or, what about Tom Lucero, the Amendment 54 front-man, doesn’t he live up there?
who would replace Lundberg in his house seat, it obviously wouldn’t be marostica, just re-elected to his own House seat. Marostica is now on the JBC a very big job.
you responded to was speculating about who would replace lundberg in his House seat not about other possible replacements for Johnson, which is why Marostica wouldn’t fit that role. With that clarified, would you mind doing me a favor and typing in what a union-hating piece of #@$%#! you are. I know a exchange of billingsgate is required in our cross postings, but I just don’t feel up to it today.:-)
I was responding to the Johnson fill. Lundberg should stay in his own seat and let term limits take their natural course.
Hey Ewegen, who is your team going to get in 2 years to run in CD4?
p.s. I want Union Bosses held accountable to their members, yes that means RTW. Unlike you who supports paycheck protection and offshoring US jobs I support US job growth.
What a piece of crap you are … the world has changed Bob … your model is broken
is the one who stops the name calling first.
How’d that union-busting thing work out for you?
RTW failed in 2008, but the Posts editorial stated they didn’t support it this year. That leaves many possibilities for the future.
RTW doesn’t bust unions. Remember, government employees (civil servants) with unions have the Right-to-Work. I doubt you can cast a fact that government unions have been busted with the freedom to choose.
As to the Posts union busting, I admit they don’t bust unions, they just promote and encourage the offshoring of US jobs.
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David, Some weeks ago I offered to Ewegen, Bob, etc.. to refer to him as Mr. Ewegen if would use my handle and not attempt to belittle me with name calling. The offer still stands Mr. Ewegen.
He lives in a different Senate district specifically in Ft Collins. Senator Bacon represents that area
Stan Matsunaka was a great Senator and a great Senate leader. Stan along with Ed Perlmutter and Mike Feeley were the masterminds of the Democratic Senate takeover in 2000. Stan can win that seat and would be a great addition to the Senate.
Run Stan Run.
In fact I think even Bob Ewegen would agree.
And Stan was gone by then.
Democrats won control of the Senate by a one vote margin in 2000. They lost the majority in 2002 and regained it in 2004.
Stan Matsunaka should run. Stan is well liked and a great campaigner. In my view he is the best State Senator Colorado has seen in a long time.
He can’t run – he ran out his term limits.
If it’s been >4 years since he left the Senate, Stan can ride again:
Section 3. Terms of senators and representatives.
(1) Senators shall be elected for the term of four years and representatives for the term of two years.
(2) In order to broaden the opportunities for public service and to assure that the general assembly is representative of Colorado citizens, no senator shall serve more than two consecutive terms in the senate, and no representative shall serve more than four consecutive terms in the house of representatives. This limitation on the number of terms shall apply to terms of office beginning on or after January 1, 1991. Any person appointed or elected to fill a vacancy in the general assembly and who serves at least one-half of a term of office shall be considered to have served a term in that office for purposes of this subsection (2). Terms are considered consecutive unless they are at least four years apart.
But I think he’s retired from political life. I seem to remember him saying so in an article a couple of years ago.
Peter Groff should have called Stan Matsunaka the second Steve Johnson was confirmed as the winner in the Commissioner’s race. Lundberg will be appointed and Stan can beat Lundberg.
I wonder if Steve Johnson will now run for Congress?
and the County Commissioner seat would certainly make a good stepping stone towards that goal.
That’s the truly interesting question–who’s going to fill out his two year term in the House?
The seat won’t be on the ballot again until 2010, there’s no special election. Johnson would have been term-limited that year anyway. So if Stan wants his old seat back, he always knew he’d have this shot coming.
STill you’re right that Lundberg would be a weak canddidate outside of his house district.
I remember him doing a state tour years ago. I went just to hear him. He is a great leader.
And what happened to Mike Feeley? What’s he doing now? and why can’t we get him as state chair – or even DNC chair?
He represented the Hospital Association fighting Morgan Carroll’s bill that protected whistle blowing employees from being fired.
Politics, indeed, makes strange bedfellows.
the campaign for Monisha Merchant for CU Regent – she defeated incumbent Pat Hayes for CD 7.
Ellen Roberts tried for a leadership position in the House Republican caucus and was defeated. That was not just a slap to Republicans who want to accomplish something but both parties are doing very little to recognize the Western Slope. Rather feels like a race to the bottom from out here….
the concerns of Western Slopers. Forgetting what happens doesn’t make it so.
Senate minority leader. That’s a significant nod to West Slope. I was more irritated at the Ds for downgrading Isgar.
Unfortunately, Ellen Roberts has now personally learned a hard lesson about the
Republican Party. There is no place of pro-choice Republicans in this party any more. The nut-jobs have been punishing moderates like this for years. It’s why there aren’t many moderate Republicans left and it’s at the heart of why there aren’t many Republicans in office nationwide. Ellen, get out while you can. Please don’t turn into one of those sad moderate ex-Republican officeholders who still thinks there’s a chance for them in the Republican Party. Join us who have left the party and are going to crush the party into oblivion so that our children can start a new party.
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She now is an adjective? Frightening.
Does that mean one that is shockingly ignorant of facts, history and science?
All they want is their pretty boys who will do what they are told. People with a brain need not apply.
Have you seen Lundberg? He’s kind of Lee Harvey Oswaldish, not a “pretty boy”. Come to think of it, I don’t think that any of the house or senate GOP are “pretty”..oh, wait, maybe Mike May, he’s my favorite.
between a Palin Conservative and an Andrews Conservative?
a Palin Conservative and an Andrews Conservative.
On three, everybody:
one,
two
LIPSTICK!!!!!!!!!!!
doesn’t stash his wardrobe in the belly of the plane, either. And his stylist is considerably less pricey than hers.
…god love him
At this point, Palin should franchise her name and image and charge royalties. Does Andrews know she is a woman? Don’t remember his leadership era being very supportive of Republican women.
I also don’t see Lundberg “standing tall” in any context – unless he is standing on his megaphone.
Isn’t it time for the Post to retire Andrews as a columnist? He cannot speak for a significant number of Republicans, just his rapidly dwindling echo chamber.
They want the battered GOP to get beat up even more? Add John Andrews to the Wadhams/Schaffer/Musgrave list of people we Dems will need to hold up as the leaders in making this a one-party state – for us Dems.
They guy who denies global warming, denies a woman’s right to choose, denies the separation of church and state, and is an immigration zealot only comparable to Michael Savage.
Andrews hit the nail on the head for once since that is “Palin conservative” or all around lunacy. Please appoint and run more Lundberg’s for the good of the Democratic Party.
This just in from Speaker Carroll”
Rep. Kathleen Curry of Gunnison Named
Speaker Pro Tempore
First Session of the 67th General Assembly Begins Jan. 7, 2009
(DENVER) State Representative Terrance Carroll, Speaker-elect of the Colorado House of Representatives, announced today that he has made a Western Slope addition to the Colorado House Majority leadership team.
The new Speaker pro tem is State Representative Kathleen Curry. Rep. Curry, a Gunnison Democrat, is a small-business owner, a part-time professor at Western State College, a scientist, and a mother of two sons. With her family, Rep. Curry runs a ranch and a small natural beef distribution business.
By way of introduction, Speaker-elect Carroll said, “My goal as Speaker of the House is to tap into the talents and diversity of all 38 members of our caucus. Today, I am proud to announce that I am appointing as our new Speaker pro tempore a smart colleague who is a rancher, scientist, and mother. Rep. Kathleen Curry has a deep and broad understanding of agriculture, property rights, ranching, oil and gas, water rights, and most importantly, economic development issues. Rep. Curry will help lead our caucus as we fight for the middle-class, for job creation, and for economic stability in Colorado. I am thrilled that she has joined our leadership team.”
“I’m happy to accept the role of Speaker Pro Tem and to work side by side with you to improve the lives of everyone in the state,” said Rep. Curry. “Democrats continue to respect rural Coloradans and to hear their voices. Rural voters may be far away from the power-base, but they are powerful. I’m proud to sit at the Democratic leadership table, representing western Colorado and all Coloradans.”
Rep. Curry continued, “One thing should be clear: when this leadership team of men and women, Front Range and West Slope, lawyers and ranchers, comes together in January, we are going to spend every day working to create jobs, jobs and more jobs. As different as we are, that’s our common goal: to strengthen this economy and get Coloradans working, creating more stability for the next generation.”
Rep. Curry is intimately familiar with natural resources issues and policies. She served as manager of the Upper Gunnison River Water Conservancy District in Gunnison (1998-2004), as a Water Rights Specialist for Wright Water Engineers (1996-1998), and as a Physical Scientist for the State of Colorado Water Conservation Board (1994-1996). Rep. Curry received a Master’s Degree in Water Resources Planning and Management from Colorado State University, and a BA in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts.
See http://www.ColoradoHouse.org for bio and photo
We need somebody from the Western Slope in a power position, I think.