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*
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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
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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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DEMOCRATS
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October 19, 2017 06:15 AM UTC
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Ruh-roh. The crazy train’s coming off the tracks.
A Cub Scout questioned a Colorado state senator at a meeting. Now he’s been kicked out of his den.
Look, if he wanted to carry a semi-automatic long gun with a bump stock and large capacity mag then that would have been 100% his God-given Inalienish RIGHT to stop any tyranny that might erupt at said meeting, or on the way there or back, or while in his "castle" (really some pillows from the couch and a blanket…)
But asking an articulate question of an elected leader and being engaged at a young age in civics with a curious mind – embracing a right to expression and using critical thinking? OUTRAGEOUS PROG-LIB CONSPIRACY to make that crazy woman talking about rape to Cub Scouts look bad!
another rat is jumping off the sinking ship…..
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/18/us/politics/tiberi-republican-resign-ohio.html?action=click&contentCollection=Asia%20Pacific&module=Trending&version=Full®ion=Marginalia&pgtype=article
Cory Gardner has new, inconvenient, time(s) to tell him how you feel about Trump's "tax reform" giveaway to the top 1% and Trump's slashing Obamacare CSRs, raising CO insurance rates by 34%.
You can call in to Gardner's telephone town hall this morning at 9:15 am or 10 am – his website has posted both times, but his twitter and instagram accounts both now say 10 am . Text SENGARDNER to 828282 to sign up.
I swear the website said 9:15 am last night when I signed up. I'd sign on at 9:15 and see what happens. This is either deliberate miscommunication or a screwup.
Gardner also has a fancy new website with a web form to fill out to tell him how you feel about "fixing our tax code and growing wages". This was featured on Fox yesterday.
Here’s a link to the screenshot of the 9:15, which one sees if one clicks the sign-up link on the twitter page:
https://s1.postimg.org/81do9aub6n/cg915_screenshot.png
His public appearances are like a shell game…..
I love how he said the other day that the farmers on the Eastern Plains are all gung-ho over the repeal of the estate tax.
I didn't realize they were all multimillionaires with assets worth more than $5 million apiece. Guess there's a lot of hidden wealth out there and they don't need the farm subsidies then.
Most also don’t realize the elimination also comes with a hidden surprise: stepped-up basis will no longer be allowed. Thanks to the marriage of government investments in infrastructure, decades of lavish subsidies, natural gas extraction and hard work there are a lot of millionaires in rural Colorado . A very small percentage of the total would pay a death tax under the current framework.
No, the death tax isn’t killing family farms
If Amazon picks Denver for HQ2, it will turn Colorado blue. What's funny about this is the majority of the business people working to get them here are almost certainly Republicans.
PS – I hope they locate at the old Storage Tech location in Superior. Between Google's new facility, Oracle's giant facility just down the road, and then Amazon, we would have an incredible critical mass of high tech in the Boulder area.
It's like that English saying goes, "The turkeys are voting for Christmas"
Nah, I think the location is supposed to be Aurora somewhere.
They offered 8 locations, probably Lone Tree, Westminster, 38th and Blake, Pepsi Center/Elitch Gardens parking, N. Stapleton, Pena Station (probably the Aurora one you're thinking of), Upper Fox, and Broadway Station.
What happens when house prices in Boulder reach critical mass?
That happened a long time ago.
There's a decent amount of land around the StorageTech site that is available for high density development. There are already a couple of apartment/condo complexes that have sprung up in the area. No need to bother Boulder… (Whether or not the water supply is available is another question entirely.)
While the former StorageTek site is a strong candidate, I'd think the vast lands south of DIA with its rapidly growing housing, hotels, businesses (including one of Amazon's other two facilities), and of course the Panasonic Smart City project right along the RTD A-Line at Pena Station would have great appeal to Amazon (if they chose our incentive-lite proposal).
Too suburban. I would bet on RINO or the Elitch/Pepsi Center area.
The old StorageTech site is ideal in size and current non-utilization, but it lacks one of the key ingredients Amazon wanted: convenient mass transit. OTOH, it could be the final goad (and incentive) needed to develop the North rail line.
well, it is directly served by the bus rapid transit system on I-76, whichhasitsown guideway.
WOTD from Maha Blog "Democratic Party expands Super delegates by adding lobbyists"
I thought this was a joke.
There are, apparently, all kinds of rumors wandering around about the at-large delegate selection process.
Chris Reeves over at DailyKos is a DNC member, and wrote today about another article at BuzzFeed mischaracterizing discussions surrounding at-large delegates.
I'd hold fire and perhaps reach out to one or more of your DNC delegates to find out what might really be going on and express your desires in an intelligent and reasoned manner.
No joke, Frankly. But nothing new either. Lobbyists have been superdelegates since Debbie Wasserman Schultz got her claws into DNC leadership; she quietly repealed Obama-era rules prohibiting dark money donations at the same time.
Quite a few of HRC's superdelegates were, in fact, lobbyists, as the Intercept reported in 2016.
Christine Pelosi, quoted in the Bloomberg piece, is correct – all delegates should be elected and accountable to state voters:
So I'm not going to "hold my fire", Phoenix – I'll just continue my slow burn at the corporate-friendly, anti-democratic policies of the Democratic National Committee.
Shhhh! Keep this under your hat: Guns kill people!
Maddow connects the dots in Niger.
Dot #1 Chad has been protecting American interests by fighting Boko Haram insurgents in neighboring Niger, and along the border.
Dot #2 Donald Trump inexplicably imposed a travel ban on immigrants from Chad. The State Department, gutted under Tillerson's leadership, did not oppose this move.
Dot #3 The leadership of Chad took offense. They removed all of their fighters from Niger, and from engaging Boko Haram terrorists.
Dot #4 Almost immediately, four American Green Beret soldiers were attacked by ISIS / AQIM affiliated fighters. . Outnumbered, on a routine mission, the American soldiers died on October 4. McCain and the Pentagon are investigating.
Dot #5 Donald Trump stayed silent on the deaths of the 4 Americans for almost 2 weeks, as he was silent and not reaching out to families of other war dead. When he did call the families of the dead soldiers, he was crass and callous. Far from consoling their loss, the President's call deepened their pain.
So a stupid knee-jerk racist travel ban against citizens of an allied country results in four American dead, and our national embarrassment of a President lying about it.
Benghazi, anyone?