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(D) Kamala Harris
(R) Donald Trump
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) V. Archuleta
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CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Marshall Dawson
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CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(D) Adam Frisch
(R) Jeff Hurd
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(R) Lauren Boebert
(D) Trisha Calvarese
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(R) Jeff Crank
(D) River Gassen
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
(R) John Fabbricatore
90%
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CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen
(R) Sergei Matveyuk
90%
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CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(D) Yadira Caraveo
(R) Gabe Evans
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Attending fundraising luncheon at the Palm yesterday, hosted by power lobbyist, Maria Garcia Berry, for city council canididate Chris Nevitt, was none other than city council member, Charlie Brown.
Charlie is hardly a friend of labor and his attendance (along with a number of developers) at this luncheon speaks volumes about this race.
Oh, yes, we did have fun with Political Chess! Those pieces you see in the picture were made in rubber molds in my basement, or the basement of one or two friends. We sold them as a fundraiser and for awhile they were on sale at the old Neustetter’s Department Store on 16th Street. The rules of the game were intended to show the interaction of ordinary people and corporate interests in the struggle for control of the public utilities commission, a fight in which the Colorado Project Common Cause had been engaged for several years. We were trying to illustrate that the lawyers and accountants had most of the power and that outsiders had to create alliances of many citizens to be able to overcome those odds.
I believe that I and my grandson may have the last two remaining full sets, unless the one sold at auction also included the whole thing with rules and cards for special court orders, etc. These are prizes!
Craig Barnes
Founder, Colorado Project Common Cause, 1972
…but I did see some cards in the cardboard roll case. The playing mat and instructions were there too. Some of the plaster players have dings and chips, but could be this is a complete set!
Thanks for the info! Good to see you are still around and involved!
Picked up a funny old item at an auction over the weekend. It’s a game called Political Chess, and it’s credited to Colorado Project/Common Cause, circa 1972. Googling was non-productive, so I decided to see if it sparks a memory from anyone here.
This is what the pieces look like. It came in a cardboard tube with an instruction sheet and a canvas playing board.
It did strike me that for a game coming from what I VAGUELY remember as a sort of liberal group, there’s not much diversity in the game pieces….
NeonNurse, it appears a response to your question was posted as a reply to the previous comment.
out of 400 cities in the US as the best place to live. (Gazette 5/08/2007)
Stuff that in your ear liberal loving Boulder/Denver. Where do you rank?
398 & 399?
Ft. Collins was ranked # 1 in the “Best places to live” survey by Money Magazine in 2006, Louisville was ranked # 5 in 2005 by Fortune Magazines Best places to live, and Boulder was ranked # 1 in the survey “America’s Smartest Cities” by Forbes in 2006. Most all major publications do these studies, apparently the Gazette too, so somebody has to come out on top each year, so please temper your excitement.
o these studies really mean anything ? No. But thank you for your recently discovered factoid. Now, having said that, put away that Gazette article you are mouth-frothing about and go back under the rock you came out from, you complete fucktard.
Does your moma know you use such potty mouth words?
is just another symptom of mass liberalism and overpermissiveness that is spreading like a cancer all over this country. You should do everything in your power to avoid contracting this type of sickness if you can; in some cases it can even develop into full blown socialism. At all costs stay away from this blog, any library or institution of higher learning, and report immediately to your nearest FOF substation for further instruction.
Wouldn’t think I’d find myself saying this, but I miss Gecko!
I hope that advertisement last week didn’t send him off the deep end!
FDN, the award wasn’t awarded by the Gazette, the Gazette simply reported the story. This award came from some book. You would have known that had you read the article before flying off the handle. Having said that, it is nice that such cities get these awards, whether they’re “best places to live” or smartest city. I think it’s great when any colorado city comes out from these things.
and yes, I am sure the Gazette was just reporting the story.
Fair enough. We all got to get our kicks and giggles somehow.
“Best of” anything is highly subjective. CO Springs is a lousy place if sailing is your passion…..or a diverse political landscape.
You couldn’t get me to live there, but you know what? That’s just MY opinion, and it only matters to me. And why should what the Gazette say matter to me? It doesn’t.
You are one real weird puppy.
What do your sail? I grew up racing C-scows in Northern Illinois. Need a crew?
I sailed with the UW-Maidson club and would LOVE to get invloved here. COUNT ME IN! I promise to be apolitical while on crew:-)
That’s UW-Madison.
What did you do in madison? That was a good party town. I spent a bit of time there (not much). If you were there, I am guessing that you made it down the devil’s lake or even lake Geneva (the later being a good hangout for me when I was a youthful partier 🙂 ).
I am guessing that you were sailing lasers, or a M-16. If you were there fairly recently, then it would be a hoby-cat.
First of all, I was a student….no, a lover…no, a student!!! Well. I’m still confused:-))
Madison will always hold a fond spot in my heart. I’ve been on almost every lake in WI (and there are a lot of them!), including spearing Sturgeon on Lake Winnebago. I still pronounce it like a proud Wisconsonite…lol.
I worked my way up to the Hoby’s and still thrill at “hiking out” on Lake Mendota. It was a great place to meet girls:-)
My wife and I kayak now in a sea going tandem boat; and just today a was in a store in downtown Denver looking at solo kayaks to get back into more challenging water.
was the name of our boat. She was a fine boat.
One of the guys that we raced against was Buddy Melges. Look up Melges boatworks (and look at his gold
s and IIRC a silver).
If every lake, then you hit lake Geneva. Go due south and the lake just a couple of miles over the Illinois border was wonder lake. And yes. Wisc was a very fun state. Had that been a republican state, then they would have had 20% of the high school girls with kids.
“Had that been a republican state, then they would have had 20% of the high school girls with kids.” Are you taking credit for that claim? You did say it was a fun state and all, but that is a lot for one man….
I wished. I was goody 2 shoes until about age 18 (and I was in living in CO by 19). Wi and Mn are (or were) well known for its wild side in winter. Due to the cold AND humidity, a lot of ppl would stay inside. Combine with the cultural history ( a lot of nordic ), pre-martial sex was not as frowned upon. Of course, the advent of the pill really helped that.
Sailing is a great political metaphor:-)
…and on salt water.
My first sailboat was a Penguin while the family’s was a 23′ Penant on Long Island Sound. Once in Florida, Sailfish and Sunfish (my father was a dealer) and we had a series of boats as my father wheeled and dealed. The “Fearless” was a low freeboard centerboard yawl of maybe 30′. Anytime the engine was started, all the bayou crud would fall out of the seems and it would start leaking. Once at the dock the bilge pump worked often, and then after a few days, not at all!
In 1973 my dad brokered a sale for a 40′ trawler style motor sailer to a Texan who promptly found himself in a hurricane and got the lines wrapped around the prop shaft up in the Big Bend of Florida. He had bought it for $20K and sold it to my dad for $10K. Dad figured he could fix it and sell it for a tidy profit.
We kept it for 34 years. You can see it here when we put it up for sale last summer: http://www.pbase.com…
I also miss Yevrahnevets.
I have not seen him in a while.
Pittsburgh was ranked No. 1 in some poll a few years back.
PITTSBURGH!
Next it’ll be Camden, New Jersey. These polls are just a hype for developers and real estate agents.
I thought you guys didn’t believe in polls, anyway…
told me the sky was blue, I would go get a second opinion.
Percentage Wise?
http://www.msnbc.msn…
White House struggles to fill key posts. “The Bush administration is facing growing difficulties in filling a rising number of high-level vacancies following a recent spate of senior departures. In the last 10 days alone Mr Bush has lost four senior officials and more resignations are expected to follow. `I wouldn’t describe this as disintegration,’ said one senior official. `But there are worrying large gaps opening up and it is very hard to recruit high-quality people from outside.’
h/t ThinkProgress
Sounds like something Joseph Goebbels would have said, circa April 1945.
Condi says we’re staying, well….forever!
“Even though the Iraqis want us to leave, even though al-Maliki says they want to take over by the end of 2007, and even though experts say that we need to assure the Iraqis that we have no permanent claim to bases and their oil, the Bush Administration thinks it will help to calm things down by doing what Al Qaeda wants us to do: stay forever, or at least until January 2009.
If you wanted proof that we have made Iraq a colony and are dictating their future, this is it. If the al-Maliki government asked us to leave tomorrow or even by the end of 2007, Bush would not heed that request. And that is all the proof you need that we are engaged in an occupation against the wishes of the occupied, which I believe is against the UN resolution.
I hope the GOP likes their offices while they have them, because many of them will be out on their asses after November 2008.”
Hear that Dobby and the rest of you war mongering Republicans? The rest of you Republicans can make your voices heard, I’m sure.
h/t Steve Soto
Of course, the MSM won’t report it that way. Should I list the other terrorism incidents now or later?
“Well, after weeks of trying to pin every car-backfire, school massacre, and kid with a cherry bomb on phony cabals of Muslim Fanatic Terrorists, Righty Blogistan and the Em Ess Em have finally got themselves a group of real live jihadi. In Jersey. (Where else, really?)
WASHINGTON (CNN) – The federal government charged five alleged Islamic radicals with plotting to kill U.S. soldiers at Fort Dix in New Jersey.
A sixth was charged with aiding and abetting the illegal possession of firearms by three of the others.
“The philosophy that supports and encourages jihad around the world against Americans came to live here in New Jersey and threaten the lives of our citizens through these defendants,” New Jersey U.S. Attorney Christopher J. Christie said at a news conference Tuesday.
The men were arrested Monday night and heard the charges against them Tuesday in federal court. They will be held without bond pending a hearing Friday, according to Michael Drewniak, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey.
Well, so much for fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here.”
h/t firedoglake
This meme of “fighting them over there so we don’t have to fight them over here” has long been an irritant to my intelligence.
Five and a half years ago, Thomas Wales was murdered in Seattle. He was shot, through the window of his home, as he sat working at his computer late at night.
The killing took place on October 11, 2001. If the ruins of the World Trade Center had not still been smoking at the time, and if the nation’s attention had not been completely (and naturally) riveted by that event, Tom Wales’s death would likely have become major national news. He was 49 years old, and he had spent the previous 18 years as a federal prosecutor in Seattle, mainly working on white-collar crime cases. He was gregarious, modest, humorous, charming, vigorous, very active in community efforts, widely liked and admired. A significant detail is that one of the civic causes for which Tom Wales worked was gun safety and at the time of his death was head of Washington Cease-Fire.
No one has been charged or arrested in his killing. But among the strange aspects of the case is that law enforcement officials fairly quickly began acting as if they knew exactly who they were looking for. For instance, a story last year in the Seattle Times said this about the case:
Agents have focused on a Bellevue airline pilot as their prime suspect. The pilot had been targeted by Wales in a fraud case that concluded in 2001.
Other reports over the years have emphasized that this same “prime suspect” was a gun enthusiast and zealous opponent of anyone he considered anti-gun. If – as is generally assumed – Wales was murdered for reasons related to his gun safety efforts and his past prosecutions, he would be the first federal prosecutor killed in the line of duty.
As best I have been able to tell from a distance, through the years law-enforcement and political officials from Seattle and Washington state have frequently complained that federal officials in Washington DC were not putting enough resources or effort into the case. The same Seattle Times story mentioned above goes into one of the disagreements. Everyone on the Seattle side of the story remembers that the Department of Justice in Washington DC sent no official representative to his funeral.
Until now, the heartbreak of the Tom Wales case, and the Washington-vs-Washington disagreement over how intensively the search for his killer was being pursued, had seemed entirely separate from Seattle’s involvement in the eight-fired-attorneys matter. John McKay, the U.S. attorney in Seattle who was among the eight dismissed, appeared to have earned the Bush Administration’s hostility in the old-fashioned way: by not filing charges of voter fraud after an extremely close election that went the Democrats’ way. But this weekend’s story in the Washington Post, based on testimony by Alberto Gonzales’s former deputy Kyle Sampson, suggests that McKay’s problems may have begun with his determination to keep on pushing to find Tom Wales’s killer.
In my earlier post on this rather snarkily referred to that notorious quote by Wayne Lapierre that the NRA would be working out of the white house if Bush were elected. But there is another clue from that period that lends credence to the suspicions that the Bush Justice Department would refuse to put resources toward finding his killer because of Wales’ position on guns.
December 6, 2001
The Justice Department has refused to let the F.B.I. check its records to determine whether any of the 1,200 people detained after the Sept. 11 attacks had bought guns, F.B.I. and Justice Department officials say.
The department made the decision in October after the F.B.I. asked to examine the records it maintains on background checks to see if any detainees had purchased guns in the United States.
Mindy Tucker, a spokeswoman for the Justice Department, said the request was rejected after several senior officials decided that the law creating the background check system did not permit the use of the records to investigate individuals.
We don’t know who the senior officials were, but they weren’t members of Ashcroft’s legal staff.
July 24, 2002
Congressional testimony by Attorney General John Ashcroft last December that the F.B.I. could not legally use records of gun background checks to investigate terrorism suspects conflicted with a formal opinion by his own legal staff, a report issued yesterday by the General Accounting Office shows.
In testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Dec. 6, Mr. Ashcroft defended his policy of refusing to allow the Federal Bureau of Investigation to check its records to determine whether any of the 1,200 people detained after Sept. 11 had bought guns. Mr. Ashcroft asserted that the law which created the National Instant Check System for gun purchases ”outlaws and bans” use in criminal investigations.
Mr. Ashcroft said the law ”indicates that the only permissible use for the National Instant Check System is to audit the maintenance of that system.”
But the General Accounting Office report contains an opinion by the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, dated Oct. 1, which seems to allow the checks under some conditions. ”We see nothing in the NICS regulations that prohibits the F.B.I. from deriving additional benefits from checking audit log records as long as one of the genuine purposes” is auditing the use of the system, the report says.
Moreover, the Office of Legal Counsel added, it was further convinced such checks were legal because the bureau of investigation had been ”using this method” all along.
The opinion was written after the bureau asked the Justice Department for permission to examine the records on background checks to see if any detainees had purchased guns.
It is unclear who in the Justice Department read the opinion. But sometime in October, the department rejected the F.B.I.’s request.
We all know that they pretty much shredded every other amendment in the Bill Of Rights during that period, but even as Manhattan was still smoldering, they refused to buck the NRA and give the FBI permission to look over the firearm records. That is some powerful mojo. The NRA wouldn’t give an inch even to find terrorists in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Why would anyone think they’d be reluctant to put the screws to McKay in Washington because he kept trying to find the killer of a prosecutor who was a gun control advocate?
Of course they would. The NRA is the most powerful special interest in America and nobody is allowed to mess with their agenda. Nobody.
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Sorry for the length CoPols, but I believe this will turn out to be an important story. What do you think Demogirl?
h/t Digby
as it had little to do with Colorado politics, but since you mentioned it…
There’s more if you click on the hyperlink.
I’m sincerely interested in getting all of you savvy politcos commenting on this:
NPR had a story this morning that was very instructive about how law don’t get made, and how Senate votes sometimes work. And sadly, the story isn’t favorable to Democrats.
The essence of it is that an amendment sponsored by Byron Dorgan would have allowed importation of prescription drugs. Then Thad Cochran offered another amendment which would require the Sec. of HHS to certify that imprortation was legal. That’s effectively killing the Dorgan amendment, because the HHS secretary doesn’t believe in drug importation. So then the Cochran amendment was approved, essentially gutting the Dorgan amendment which had just passed. According to NPR, industry experts said senators proved their loyalty to business by voting for import language last week and then gutting it Monday night.
“The pharmaceutical industry is a major contributor in Congress and has been for a long period of time,” said Gerard Anderson, a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
The Dorgan amendment passed cloture 63-28, and then passed in a voice vote–cowards wouldn’t go on record. Then some of the Senators who had voted for cloture (the only place they went on record) then turned around and voted to gut the amendment.
I went through the votes, and the following Senators voted for cloture, showing support for the Dorgan amendment, then turned around and voted for the Cochran amendment, nullifying their previous vote. We don’t know how they voted in the voice vote, of course–that would be really damning–but we know from the votes that some voted for cloture, then voted for Cochran amendment. Here they are as I compiled them from Senate.gov:
Baucus-Mt (D)
Bayh-In (D)
Cantwell-Wa (D)
Carper-Md (D)
Coburn-Ok (R)
Coleman-Mn (R)
Corker-Tn (R)
Kennedy-Ma (D)
Kerry-Ma (D)
Landriau-LA (D)
Lautenberg-NJ (D)
Lieberman-Ct (I)
Lincoln-Ar (D)
Martinez-Fl (R)
Menendez-NJ (D)
Mikulski-Md (D)
Murray-Wa (D)
Nelson-Ne (D)
Rockefeller-WV (D)
Salazar-Co (D)
Why are so many Democrats voting against importation of prescriptions? Really frustrating.
For the record, Ohio’s Senators voted as you would expect. Brown voted against the Cochran Amendment and Voinovich voting for it. Kentucky’s Senators voted for the Cochran Amendment as well. Thank them next time you pay $50 for a prescription.
Can someone explain? I’m frankly confused!!
Could it be the money$
There are two very interesting web sites that track who gives to whom:
Open Secrets — tracks contributions in federal races
http://www.opensecrets.org
Follow the Money — tracks contributions in state races
http://www.followthemoney.org