President (To Win Colorado)
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(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
80%↑
20%
CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
98%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
95%
5%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd
(D) Adam Frisch
52%↑
48%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
10%
CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
80%
20%
CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
10%
CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
10%
CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
60%
40%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
State House Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
May 07, 2007 06:59 PM UTC
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The man’s got a perfect streak going!
If the GOP can’t capitalize on this fiasco, it’s in bigger trouble than I thought.
I would have to guess Ritter. The house and senate have spent FAR too much time trying to kill off 41. For a number of them, it will come back to haunt them. I just wish that we could find out the politicians ( I have my suspicions, but it would be a pure SWAG) behind the groups that are trying to truly kill 41 (and not just amend it to make it work better).
Did a great job keeping the “honeymoon” with the leg. going strong and appearing as a moderate. This was a great session for him.
Unfortunately, my side has been on defense for most of the time, and need to get their act together…
The GOP has been EXCELLENT thus far. You can’t help but notice the renewed vigor that has enthused the party after Dick Wadhams’ installation at party chair. The union fillibuster started it and it’s been very good since then.
I am, in the words of CS Lewis, “surprised by joy.” After all, the Kool-Aid sippers in Washington are prematurely coronating the GOP–I should be turning to drink, or doomsdayism, or Texas. But I’m buoyed. The GOP has had a noticeable edge on PR so far. Wadhams talks, the media listens, the Democrats reiterate their same, goofy ideas. Ritter is barely able to hang onto the DNC–let alone keep his party in check.
The Democrats have provided–gratis!–a giant portfolio of campaign ad material. When they promised centrism, they gave us leftism. When they promised to leave alone the so-called ‘guns, God, and gays’ agenda, they made that the centerpiece of their session. They spent months regulating business, bolstering the Nanny State, and hacking away at the Owens-era education reforms. The ’08 campaign will verily be a buffet of left-wing loonyism from the Dems–in Colorado of all places!
I can’t guarantee that we will take back the legislature before 2010. But with the DNC coming to town, with the Democrats’ record, and with a reinvigorated conservatives grassroots, Haners, 2008 will be a VERY good year in Colorado. Have your red paint handy, I think the state needs a bit of a touch-up. 🙂
I love being corrected.
My opinion is based on the view that, other than getting that crappy labor bill off the table for now, what else have republicans done?
It’s great that Wadhams is the chair, and I think that it will help, but I can’t think of a whole lot that’s gone the Republican’s way. Lambert filed the ethics complaint that went no where. There didn’t seem to be a plan b on that one (whereas Dems kept filing such complaints against Gingrich until something stuck).
Like I said, let me know if I’m missing something. But nothing really noteworthy is coming to mind.
I’m out for the night, have a good one all!
…there is no other explanation for his optimism in the face of defeat. He reminds of that old poster of an eagle about to swoop up a mouse and the mouse if flipping off the eagle.
That the R’s, after a crushing defeat in November, regrouped and put the kabash on the union bill, I can’t see much for R’s to celebrate. I say that with my non-partisan hat on, not with any polemics.
You are right, Haners.
The only thing that’s going to be troublesome for him about this session is the mill-levy freeze, which Republicans are predictably calling a tax hike. Aside from that, he came out of this session smelling rosy and looking as green as could be with all the renewable energy measures he could possibly want.
I wonder what we’ll see next session…
What happened to the Net Meetering bill? Why was it not pushed through?
The House concurred with the Senate amendments. It looks like it did go through.
The legislature and the governor finally got on the same page and took some positive and progressive actions to address problems in multiple areas where the previous Repub legislature and governor had failed to get off the dime.
One party rule on a sustained basis promotes corruption and extreme partisanship, but in this case it is a good change to begin cleaning up the mess of the last 6 years. The pendulum will swing back in time, but this was a refreshing change.
I haven’t reviewed the energy legislation in detail, but from a quick glance, it looks like we did good things in that area.
I look at the federal gov having been 6 years controlled by republicans. It lead to massive deficits, attacks on our soil, invasions and occupation of none related countries, mass corruption of the gov probably not seen on this scale for mutliple decades (if not a century), treason, lies, etc. Now the dems control our state and control congress. Most likely they will take control of the feds at the next election. I only hope that they have humility and intelligence to do the right thing rather than simply be the opposite of the republicans.
As it is, I do not like how they are playing with NASA. I am hopeful that it will not matter as I believe that spacex, scalaed composites, armadillo, t/space, blue sky and bigelow are going to get us to the moon before 2015. But I watch the dems jockeying for more money into their pet projects (not quite highways to nowhere, but same concepts). It is very bothersome.
…like we took away their concealed weapons or something. Read the Sunday Post story about the session. I was genuinely interested in what the R’s had to say and all I “heard between the lines” was boo-hoo and exaggerations. All whining how the Dems raised taxes and driver’s license fees (that’s a tax? I thought that God Ronnie was a big proponent of “user fees.”) We still have some of the lowest tax rates in the country but now Colorado is suddenly anti-business.
You know, if they would stop crying and realize that most folks care about education, energy, health care, etc., they might find some voting for them outside of EPC.
Read the article if you haven’t.
Thank you Jesus. So, now the question is, how much does Bob Schaffer win by?
Trial Lawyers?
Who lost?
All of us because of the money diverted from transportation to other projects. If D had passed we’d at least be getting the roads improved.
Overall Grade: C-
We would simply be borrowing money from the future. NO THANX. If you want to be pissed at somebody, then be pissed at Owens. We had the money to build T-Rex, to which he and his neo-con type pushed to have the money given back. Then when he found out that the gov was already pretty lean, he borrowed from the future to build it. That was a HUGE mistake. We should have held Owens feet to their fire for the incompetence that he and fellow neo-cons display over and over. I am tired of the monster deficits that we run esp at the federal level. Here’s to hope that we will pass a federal balanced budget amendment like what the state has.
The fact that I blast the Rs and the dems in the same post and you suggest I am BNC? Ouch.
The funny thing, is that even after he became a R, I did not mind him. Just as I did not agree with all his votes as a dems, I felt that he was similar in nature with the Rs (like Salazar). What bothers me, is that it appears more and more that he was corrupt. I would like to think that it occurred AFTER he became a R, but somehow I doubt it. But who knows, perhaps he was not corrupt.
The Dems’ refusal to back it was what supposedly pushed Campbell over the edge to the side of the Repubs.
Of course, the funny thing, is that when the republicans got full control, they fought against that and anti-corruption bills.
America’s infrastructure was built with bonds, almost immediately after the revolution. Using bonds means that we get to use a road now instead of in 25 years.
Heck, they’ll own Cherry Hills Village.