CO-04 (Special Election)
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(R) Greg Lopez
(R) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Joe Biden*
(R) Donald Trump
80%
20%↓
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%
30%
20%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(R) Deborah Flora
(R) J. Sonnenberg
30%↑
15%↑
10%↓
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Dave Williams
(R) Jeff Crank
50%↓
50%↑
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%↓
30%↑
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
January 05, 2010 07:41 PM UTC
36 Comments
ColoradoPols and CoPols.com
I understand that he is far removed from the metro spotlight, but to say that somehow he ranks below both McInnis and Penry is absurd. He sits on Approps, has a direct line to DOI and has the ability to run statewide if he ever should choose.
I also so no one on the State Leg JBC on that list, which is puzzling.
whose been mentioned in the media in the list. They pick who gets talked about most, then make a list of who gets talked about most.
Although she’s pretty over, so 2008.
She did a great commercial.
This is a ranking of Denver “movers and shakers” not Colorado personalities.
including Mark Udall and Ken Salazar.
I think 5280’s self description of their list is a bit off unless Udall and Salazar and DeGette and Perlmutter are now all running Denver in their spare time.
I was just trying to clarify where some of the discrepancy between what Pols thought it should be, and what 5280 actually chose, may have come from.
We’re just kidding, outlanders.
But MotR is right that many of their ranked persons aren’t Denver residents.
Who says you’ve got to get your mail in Denver to influence what goes on in Denver? I agree some of the rankings seem arbitrary, but the thrust of the list is coherent.
I’d hate to be Romanoff–he’s listed on the “Plummeting Stock” page with none other than James Dobson. God. Double ouch.
but I still winced when I saw him on the same list with Dobson. Man, that’s a list I never want to be on and company I never want to be associated with.
Why couldn’t Andrew have taken one of the plums he was offered and bided his time?
the Most Influential Movers and Shakers in Belize list, no problem!
Are you fucking serious?
He’s not even the most important restaurateur (bar owner where I come from). Aside from my personal distaste for the man and my experience with his business ethics does anyone actually care what he thinks?
Probably because the only place I go out to eat any more is Chick Fila.
Limited to the City and county of Denver only. Never mind that the suburbs outnumber The City and County of Denver in population 3 to 1, they don’t matter. Where do 5280’s readers come from? I guess they don’t care enough to think past the big City to the burbs where most of the money for their pet projects (Coors Fiels, Invesco, Museum of Natural History, Zoo, Art Museum etc etc etc) come from, the suburbs don’t count. This shows a complete lack of research and understanding of the metro area and an arrogance about the City and County of Denver. Remember, the burbs put you in a bottle with the Poundstone Amendment. You ready for another can of whoop ass??? Sounds like you need it.
That one cent we pay for every dollar that goes to the SCFD is really breaking the bank.
It’s a penny on $10.00.
1/10th of one percent, so 1/10th of a cent on a dollar.
brings in more money from outside the 7 county Denver area than it costs. Not to mention the respect, culture and intellectual enlightenment it brings to Colorado.
Unless it has changed since I wrote grant proposals and went before those counties’ SCFD funding panels, it is those “burbs” who control the purse strings to much of that money.
is that anyone believes they matter.
😉
Was 5280 juxtaposing a cover headline about Colorado’s “most influential” with the cover photo of Dana Perino, who the article interestingly portrays as a pretty vapid personality who may be attractive to Fox and right-wing audiences but appears to possess virtually no influence about anything. Oh, and equally funny that they featured a photo of a former Coloradan on the cover of their influential Coloradans issue.
…is that smug white men when asked to compile a list of powerful people will usually come up with a list of predominantly smug white men. My list looks exactly the same. Except I wouldn’t have bothered to add the few token women and brown folk — but obviously the 5280 editors need to reassure themselves that they’re hip and progressive.
Paul Sandoval? Really? Gets credit for putting his wife in a city council seat…except that she’s not in a city council seat. WTF?
Roxanne White? Really? After all those kids died during her watch at Human Services. She’s a rockstar?
On my list, if forced to include women and people of color, I would have named the two most powerful people in city government: Michael Hancock and Kim Day. Duh.
…it doesn’t say Paula S. is already on the council; it says she is “set to” take Garcia’s seat.
Except that Rick Garcia has yet to get the HUD job and vacate his council seat, and Paula Sandoval has yet to declare her candidacy, run a campaign and win an election. Other than that, she’s all set!
I didn’t say she was all set; the article did. Which is different from your flawed interpretation of it. Lord help me.
And the brilliant progressives at 5280 not only claim that Paula is “set to” take the seat, they attribute her “setness” to her husband’s machinations. Cuz, you know, the little ladies (especially state senators like Paula) need their men to “set” their political careers for them.
5280 is the official local lifestyle magazine of racist patriarchy. Enjoy!