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
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
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35%↓
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State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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August 19, 2011 10:16 PM UTC
21 Comments
Suthers looks like a statesman; Polis looks like a tourist.
Is that five-o-clock shadow? It amazes me what passes for good grooming these days.
in the memo section of your checks, or do they just write “social media consulting”?
I don’t get paid to write anything here. Why are my opinions suspect more than anyone else’s?
If you want your opinions to be accepted as independent, try making them independent.
You could say the same for half the commenters on here. Do they want their opinions to be “accepted as independent” too? Do the Pols Police snap to attention every time someone posts predictably?
Yup, Suthers sure does look stiff.
I’d say Suthers looks like a lawyer and Polis looks like an entrepreneur. Which they are. It’s interesting to see the contrast.
Nice, subtle slam with the “looks like a tourist.” Except that most people I know that live and work here in Colorado look like Polis, not Suthers. And I think Suthers looks quite nice. Just don’t see the reason for you going for such a cosmetic and vapid criticism.
Polis should have been dressed in a tie dye Grateful Dead T-shirt, love beads, and a head band.
But seriously, I actually agree with Suthers that the medical marijuana business in CO is a joke. Just look at the ads in Westword. Legalization for recreational use is preferable.
That reminds me, I have to renew my prescription. I’m getting a hangnail on my middle finger.
I mean, I don’t know about you, but I prefer a system in which we don’t ruin the lives of nonviolent Americans because they decided to consume a plant that’s safer than alcohol and less addictive than soda pop, to any system in which for any reason we DO ruin the lives of nonviolent Americans who consume said plant. Not to mention the whole empowering drug cartels and black market thing.
However, a functioning MMJ system IS possible. Colorado lost the chance to regulate it in a way that would bring mom and pop entrepreneurs who care about patients into the industry with enough power to make MMJ work. Instead, the legislature and municipalities chose to regulate in a way that only advantages the largest, wealthiest MMJ businesses, who have a much greater incentive to operate only as ethically as they must to avoid raids.
Government has no authority to prohibit Gods plant.
Suthers is fighting his own God.
Cannabis, what better way for the poor and oppressed to secure affordable, simple and basically self-determined comfort and relief?
Does Suthers want the ones Jesus worries about the most, to needlessly suffer?
you figured out what the “G” was for
It takes political courage to even put the issue on the table.
The “War on Drugs” has been an expensive failure, with the result that more poor people and minorities have been profiled and now have criminal records, impacting employment and voting rights — and addiction levels are the same or worse. Prohibition has rarely been effective social policy.
A rational exploration of what is or is not working is long overdue.
“de-criminalization” has been omitted from the discussion.
Would it be OK if Cannabis had the same status as …say…tomatoes?
is that the DEA/criminal/legal systems with the penal industry have so much to loose, and they are a powerful and long deeply entrenched lobby
I work in the industry and I can tell you with 100% certainty that there are absolutely no safeguards on what pesticides are used in production of this “medicine”. All that is there are overly burdensome regulations to ensure where the products and revenue go after production and what equipment is used to produce it, which just protects landlords from potential fire dangers and keeps the $ flowing to the state and out of the black-market.
The whole program is just a scam to make sure the state and the property owners get their $ and that their investments are safe. Public safety is not the issue. If they gave a damn about the public they would have a contaminant testing program in place.
No one is watching what gets sprayed on the plants or what they are fed. There is no testing for chemical or biological contaminants.
I think it needs to be regulated like alcohol and it needs to be tested like a food product.