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
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20%
State House Majority
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REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
November 17, 2021 06:42 AM UTC
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I wonder if Tina enjoyed her breakfast yesterday morning? 😆
In addition … https://www.denverpost.com/2021/11/16/tina-peters-mesa-county-elections-ethics-complaint/ Denver Post: “Ethics commission deems complaint against Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Tina Peters “non-frivolous” ”
Sounds like Tina Peters has a bit of homework to do in the next 30 days. Going to be interesting to hear the rationale for accepting goods and services already referred to on friends’ social media accounts.
PillowBoy has already said straight up the he put her up for a while and provided security. Peters' respone at this point has to be something like blah, blah, blah left-wing Communist conspiracy.
November 17, 1858 – The city of 1858 – The city of Denver, Colorado is founded.
Cool, Dave, I never knew the actual date.
Manchin may need to find a new talking point?
Rating agencies say Biden's spending plans will not add to inflationary pressure
I hope Manchins' behavior and phony righteousness comes back to bite him in the ass.
Manchin might want to chew on this one:
The middle 60% now own less wealth than the top 1%.
Low bar maybe, but looks like Colorado's Independent Redistricting Commission might have done better than the Washington (state) bipartisan commission, which failed to produce maps by deadline and had to punt to the state's Supreme Court. Can't imagine the fun involved in running a R vs. D bipartisan commission in this era!
The "Shaman" is heading from moms basement to the pokey. On ice for 41 months. Plenty of time to reflect about how much of a loser you have been.
He only got six months for invading the capitol. The extra 37 months was for felony lack of fashion sense.
The " rugged individualist " look is hard to pull off when you're not really, well, a rugged individualist. He's Braveheart, but on a strict organic diet.
I was just going to ask about his future dietary regiment. Gawdess, the incarcerated rich eat better than children of the poor.
He can eat shit. That's organic.
I think it depends a lot on how much the crew in the prison kitchen take a liking to him…
Judges orders only go so far.
Exactly.
I'll regret asking, but what religion anywhere says anything about organic food, and I'd prefer citations of actual religious text to back that up?
If Buffalo Man could transform himself into a woman and join the Dominican Sisters of Peace he might have a shot through the eco-spirituality portion of their mission. I ran across this order at St Catharanes College in Kentucky a few years back. Great old nuns – they had an organic farm on the campus (which has now been shuttered) for their food supply and Wendell Berry (at the time) ran his operations from St. Catharanes.
I think possibly The First SCOTUS Church of Home Depot? . . .
. . . anyone (corporations are people, too) can have SCOTUS upheld individual religious beliefs these days, as long as those beliefs are not totally wacky (you know, like Islam), or held by folks with pigmentation . . .
. . . either that, or maybe, a talking amphibian sent from above whispered into his buffalo horns?
Remember, it can’t be a real religion without a bunch of crazy shit.
The plight of small Colorado farms makes news in the latest edition of National Geographic
Small farms battle speculators over centuries-old water rights in drought-stricken Colorado
Hickenlooper was just asked during his virtual town hall meeting what he would do to pass the John Lewis voting rights bills. He said he was trying to get 60 votes. OMG. This contradicts what he said in an earlier town hall meeting where he committed to carving out the filibuster rules to vote for this legislation. What a slime ball.
BTW – When is he going to hold a real town hall meeting where people can respond to bullshit answers like he just gave.
Giddy up!
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This is what I reported he said at his 8/30/21 town hall meeting:
After a whole bunch of "bipartisan" blah, blah, the money quote is that if they can't get 60 votes, then he'll support changing the filibuster rules in a carve out fashion.
To get to that conclusion, he cites:
–"Troubling" transparent attempt by GOP state legislatures to disenfranchise Democratic voters.
–Never before seen in his lifetime the scale of this attempt to alter the fundamental bedrock of our democracy.
–We have to listen to GOP position because the CO voter laws, which are a model for the nation, were passed with bipartisan support so it should be possible for Congress. {He said: Why not have mail-in ballots across the country with the government paying for the postage?}
–But, if they can't get 60 votes for reasonable legislation, then "we should probably do it" (i.e., change the filibuster rules). And, this will be front and center when they return to Congress.
So, as Michael Bennet told me a couple of weeks ago, Hick is cagey but will eventually support a carve out of the filibuster rules to pass voting rights legislation.
Phew!
Tonight, he said none of that. Instead, he just said he was "working hard" to get 60 votes. Period. And, of course, there was no way for anyone to ask a follow-up. And, also of course, there is no way there will be 10 GOP votes for the legislation.
Let's be clear about what's at stake. Even more than the voter suppression measures being passed in GOP states, the more insidious laws allow GOP state legislatures to nullify the vote totals for federal elections and decide for themselves who won the election. Those are the same GOP legislatures that still believe Trump won the election. Hick will be a permanent minority Senator in a country that makes the House and the Senate moot; i.e., the end of American democracy. What a f*ing moron.
That's Hick, doing the "Try to please all, but please none" shuffle. And then there's "Float the hypothetical as the unattainable ideal to show that your heart's in the right place." Also, "Say many words that mean very little".
But frankly, he's still not in his predecessor Cory Gardner's league on that one.
Of course he is not like Cory Gardner. But, and this is huge, on the existential topic of voting rights, he is apparently no different if he allows the GOP to filibuster this legislation. In France, they would label him a collaborator.
Be careful what you wish for. What’s really at stake, if the filibuster goes away, is the ability to stop all sorts of Trump-inspired legislation if the Republicans take back the Senate next year.
What goes on in states like Georgia, Texas, and others, with their ugly voter suppression efforts, have to be decided by people in those states.
Many Republican legislators likely have potential scandalous behavior that is hidden. Some really good investigative reporting could bring those out. Remember Roy Moore in the Alabama senatorial election?