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
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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
60%↑
35%↓
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State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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"Mild by Comparison" – How two Michigan legislators tried to cover up their affair by spreading rumors that one of them was gay. On the taxpayer's dime, by the way.
You couldn't make this shit up.
I do wish this had come out before OutHouse – it could have made that scandal even more entertaining.
He should have played it safe and had an affair with a lawn mower. If he'd chosen a John Deere he could have upped his gay bona fides….
I missed the part in the decision he must be referring to but I'm sure the constituents who voted him in are nodding in agreement. And modster, of course.
A satire about a rightie so loony that this is something that would actually seem like a good idea to him would be deemed not close enough to reality to be good satire. Even the editor of the Onion would have rejected it.
King Coal, Long Besieged, Is Deposed by the Market
One word:
Solyndra(the not-so) "FutureGen"..and this: (someone's gotten Bushed! )
Natural gas also has played a major role in de-throning King Coal. Gas is cleaner and cheaper. The Rocky Mountain Institute predicts that the US will still be using some gas as of 2050 ( http://www.rmi.org ), but coal will be gone and replaced by renewables.
…if the industry can survive it's current version of 'Con Wall Street'. As with any fossil fuel source, their game plan goes up against technological advances that convert infinite, free energy into electrons. It's a game even natural gas can't win in the long run.
The environmental benefits of natural gas are are arguably suspect, given the current rate of leakage in the system. Technology exists that could resolve this problem, but the industry resists the dreaded 'mandate' while simultaneously doing nothing about the problem voluntarily. What they're doing to the atmosphere via the leaks is the equivalent to what happened to the water in the Animas River last week.
Colorado's own Bill Koch, almost as psychotic as his 2 brothers, saw this coming. Can't find the article, but quoted him saying coal was pretty much "done for".
Small worldisms: my brother actually worked at that mine here in CO. Backbreaking work, but paid well, and Unionized.
Here ya go….
yep
Message to Donald Trump:
Hey
assholeyour wonderfulness,How are your going to
put the final nail in the coffin of the Republican partysave this country if they don't let you play?http://www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2015/08/08/conservative-forum-rescinds-donald-trumps-invitation-over-remark-about-megyn-kelly/?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
Guess we all knew the fun couldn't last forever. I predict he won't run as third party either. Think of the pay cut he'd have to take as President with no time to be a reality TV celeb. Not to mention the danger he'd face of being found out to have nowhere near the worth he claims. Come to think of it, how is it that a many times multi-billionaire master of the Universe has the time or inclination to be a reality TV star in the first place? I believe the last thing the Donald wants is to actually be President instead of star of the Donald Trump Campaign reality TV show. Limited run.
I don't think Trump believes or wants to be President either. But he'll stay in the race as long as he feels it is to his image's and pocketbook's advantage (there's got to be a profitable endgame involved here). Up to and including a third party run if that's what it takes to satisfy his own sick ego's wish fulfillment.
Sure hope you're right. I just don't dare get my hopes up for a third party run!
Show up anyway, and give the speech. They can let it happen and he'll get attention, or they can try to shut it down and he'll get ten times more. It's a perfect play.
There seems to be a lot of e-mail mining going on these days, especially just using someone's address without consent. I just unsubscribed from Morgan Carroll's list. I've also found myself getting e-mails from Julie Williams and Ted Cruz; will unsubscribe from both next time I hear from them. C.H.B.
If your everyday e-mail gets on to anybody's list, it seems it opens the floodgates to all who are similarly aligned. A Dem list will get you more Dems and left-leaning groups. An R list will do the same on the other side. The unsubscribe function does heavy work at my house.
The toughest to get away from was OFA. It's relentless.
Yeah. Every Dem and Dem and/or progressive org sends me stuff. I don't opt out because a few items are interesting but I do a lot of deleting without opening. Every time I've gone to a GOP site to find out something, then I get on their lists. I do opt out of those. My faves are the notices I get that my R party membership is expiring.
If you join a Facebook group, they can and will email your Facebook address.
Thank God I never did that.
I'm on a ton of Dem lists (even people I've never heard of), but luckily for me, no Julie Williams or Ted Cruz. I would certainly make the effort to unsubscribe from them.
Oddly enough, I live in CD-6 and haven't heard a peep from Morgan Carroll.
I can help with that! You're welcome 🙂
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Really. Wish I could reroute half of mine to you.
I have and I'm in CD-1
NFL’s Second Female Coach:
Fake Black Lives Matter group is a Trotskyist front group
Many of us were and are disturbed and confused by the shutting down of Bernie Sanders' latest Seattle rally by two protesters who claimed to be from "Black Lives Matter". Their actual affiliation is "Outside Agitators 206". (OA206) From the Facebook page of OA206, the links and most of the content goes back to Glen Ford's Black Agenda Report.
The real Seattle BLM group did not know the two OA206 protesters, who started a facebook page only two days before the event. It seemed to me and many others that the mission of this group was primarily to destroy and undermine the Sanders candidacy, and to prevent that grassroots group from dealing with its internal conflicts on race, and from moving forward. As evidence, when the two women got the mic, which Sanders ceded to them, they didn't know what to do with it. They had no prepared statement. They asked for four minutes of silence for Michael Brown, and got it.
So, being me, I did some digging.
The fake BLM group is sponsored by Glen Ford's " Black Agenda Report". (BAR) BAR is a program on the Canadian "The Real News.Com", (TRRN), which is a leftist Canadian news program. Most of the Board of TRRN are white. Ford is a Canadian Trotskyite, a member of a group of leftists interested in promoting third party alternatives to the two party system. Ford himself spoke at a Socialist Action Canadian conference on “The Democratic Party, Death Trap for U.S. Blacks—Independent Labour/Black Political Action”
At the end of this talk, which claims that the Democratic party, and in particular, Sanders' candidacy, has nothing to offer African Americans, Ford extols the virtues of the Communist Party in the US.
Glen Ford is apparently a real journalist with an impressive resume. But he's also an avowed Trotskyist and Communist, whose agenda, like the Socialist Workers Party, like all those opportuistic groups, is to co-opt and undermine and destroy any other really powerful groups in the interest of building his own party. Just be aware – things are not always what they seem.
I've dealt with the Trotskyites in the past – they always destroy what they are trying to "help organize", because party building is their only real agenda.
Just be careful. Bernie Sanders needs to have real security onstage – he does not need to be vulnerable to any random audience member to rush him and grab the mike – and they need to structure in some real forums with the real Black Lives Matter group. The Trotskyites need to be exposed as people with no interest in seeing Bernie succeed. They should still have a voice, but not enough of one to shut down a fricking 15,000 person rally.
I'll probably write a diary on this on here and on kos, along with the 4 or 5 other diaries I'm in the middle of currently.