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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State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
January 11, 2022 06:52 AM UTC
29 Comments
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Sound off, Dave. You OK?
Sleeping in, maybe.
He may have woke to discover that Sarah Palin and Eric Trump are trending and pulled the sheets back over his head.
Nebraska announces $500M plan to claim water from Colorado
I imagine this will be challenged by Colorado. Any predictions?
I imagine the lawyers are being lined up as we speak. This is a different compact than the one that governs the Republican River flows into Nebraska and Kansas in my neck of the woods.
Are there any lawyers who are representing the river itself?
The primacy of property rights, and first claim to water is well-established, but it has led to a tragedy of the commons given climate change, and population growth.
Some first principles should come ahead of property rights:
(0) Water quality, runoff, pollution, fertilizer & farm waste should be highly regulated
(1) At least a reasonable amount of water should reach the ocean.
(2) Water flow should be adequate for a high quality river ecosystem.
(3) Recreational rights and electricity production should have equal rights to irrigation.
(4) River Basins should be able to trade water in a drought. That is, Denver should not have a right to suck Western Slope water when the Colorado basin is in a severe shortage.
Where does that leave farmers vs suburbs vs golf courses?
Well first off, maybe we should cut water rights by 10%, 25% or more for everybody.
The novel “Ministry for the Future” explores a future of catastrophic climate change, and an organization that advocates for and represents future generations, and the living environment itself. It’s a compelling read.
Given that the author is Kim Stanley Robinson, I suspect “Ministry” is a good read. I’ll look for it next time I’m at “Barney & Noble.”
Putting the Science in Science Fiction.
Neal Stephenson is another fast-paced Sciencey Sci-fi author who is an amazingly creative writer. Seveneves was very interesting. He has a new, future-utopian climate disaster book out, “Termination Shock“.
I have "Fall, or Dodge in Hell" by Stephenson, but haven't read it yet. It appears to be about a scad-zillionaire who dies, but has his brain electrons transferred into some sort of avatar. Interesting concept, but David Weber did it with his now 10 volume Safehold series that began in 2007.
"Any predictions?" Will be a tough go. My read thus far is that NE has a good case. However, this is another of those river compacts; like the Colorado River Compact; that was done in a time of wet years. Who knows?
Nebraska is definitely in the better position legally
My understanding – and I am not a lawyer nor a CO/NE water expert – is that this particular agreement has never lost, but was challenged a bunch back when.
Maybe water rights negotiations could include provisos like:
”Stop harassing Coloradans and Nebraskans who buy legal cannabis in Colorado.”
”If Polis declares a no-meat day, put your big kid pants on and deal.”
And yes, in a world realistically dealing with climate change, the rules for river’s health that parkhill mentions should also be part of the negotiations.
Funny you mention no meat day – there are at least two downstream users who would love to see the packing plants pack it in and head downstream or just go away.
As mentioned yesterday … The Colorado Sun has an article
Brittany Pettersen is running for the Colorado congressional seat being vacated by Ed Perlmutter
mention at the bottom of the article about who else is in and considering a run.
Notes for anyone responding to GOP/George Brauchler mania re: the increase in crime in Colorado. It appears as though the increase in crime correlates to the increase in gun sales of this same period. I'm going to guess that Colorado's background checks per month is similar to the chart in this article (https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/01/gun-sales-murder-spike/621196/) showing FBI background checks per month nationally since 1999. I suspect if less guns were sold during this period, there would (shocking, I know), less violent crime over this same period.
Justice Sort-a-mayor spreading disinformation on COVID, can this be true?
Shouldn’t you be burrowing into this rabbit hole, pfruit?
Urine Denial.
Senator Jebediah Cornpone getting schooled by the next governor of Georgia…
Stacey Abrams is Wicked Smart!
And Senator John Neely Cornhole portrays a dimwitted moron to appeal to the Duck Dynasty crowd in Louisiana.
I believe he may be a descendant of the legend of stage and screen, Jubilation T. Cornpone, the founder of Dogpatch. A confederate general famous only for losing every battle he ever fought.
The song is hilarious and so representative of Senator John N. Cornpone and his VERY large family.
Not only can this guy not stay out of trouble, he wants to get a whole lot of other Republicans in hot water: https://coloradotimesrecorder.com/2022/01/gop-senate-hopeful-whos-an-election-conspiracist-says-hes-training-poll-watchers-to-be-bulldogs/42384/
Someone needs to tell him that's not what poll watchers do.
Secretary Griswold is on the case:
In 2010, I was a poll watcher watching Tancredo’s “Constitution Party” poll watchers; they wanted to harass every Latine voter who came in to vote.
It's good to see that she's paying attention to these numbskulls.