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80%
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Governor
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(D) Michael Bennet
(D) Phil Weiser
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Att. General
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(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Jena Griswold
60%↑
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(D) A. Gonzalez
(D) J. Danielson
(R) Sheri Davis
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State Treasurer
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(D) Brianna Titone
(D) Jeff Bridges
(R) Kevin Grantham
40%
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CO-01 (Denver)
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(D) Diana DeGette*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
CO-02 (Boulder-ish)
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(D) Joe Neguse*
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90%
2%
CO-03 (West & Southern CO)
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(R) Jeff Hurd*
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80%
40%
CO-04 (Northeast-ish Colorado)
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(R) Lauren Boebert*
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90%
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CO-05 (Colorado Springs)
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(R) Jeff Crank*
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80%
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CO-06 (Aurora)
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(D) Jason Crow*
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90%
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CO-07 (Jefferson County)
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(D) B. Pettersen*
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90%
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CO-08 (Northern Colo.)
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(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Manny Rutinel
(D) Yadira Caraveo
45%↓
40%↑
30%
State Senate Majority
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DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
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REPUBLICANS
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June 16, 2017 07:48 AM UTC
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Between this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/us/politics/trump-investigation-comey-russia.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0
And this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/us/politics/pence-hires-criminal-defense-lawyer.html?ribbon-ad-idx=1&rref=homepage&module=Ribbon&version=origin®ion=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Home%20Page&pgtype=article
I'm guessing that Paul Ryan is starting to work on his inaugural address.
Trumps tweet shows that even Rosenstein should recuse himself from any involvement in the investigation (jesus, is there even anyone left at the DOJ who can manage this?), and Pence getting outside counsel isn't surprising nor unusual. Even if you did nothing wrong, you don't walk into a legal proceeding without a lawyer.
Good thing Pence's com director wasn't under oath. Sounds like something Gerbils would say in a feeble attempt to deflect from the harsh reality they face. A swift conclusion is definitely not in the offing (unless Trump decides to pick up his marbles and go home)
It's being reported that Trump's personal lawyer has hired a lawyer. Is this some kind of multi-level marketing scheme?
The only thing saving Trump (and possibly Pence) at this point is party loyalty. If there was a Democratic House (or with a Democratic president and the Republican House), impeachment hearings would have already started. At what point do the Republicans do the math and decide that their party is better off (in 2018 or 2020) with President Pence or President Ryan?
Perhaps if things do not work out their way in Georgia next week.
"I'm gonna win my bet", I sing-song like a taunting child. Hearings by the mid-terms.
Some encouraging news from Prowers County. A region drowning in natural resources (land, water, wind, and sunshine) should be amongst the most affluent in our state, not host to the poorest city. Kudos to local leaders who are willing to wade into the unchartered waters of public opinion regarding cannabis cultivation on the eastern plains.
Does the county have any wind farms?
They had the first commercial-scale wind farm, Colorado Green. I wrote about the region in this diary three years ago this week.
Thanks for update. Too many e-mails floating on my system; and too many posts here; to keep track of everything.
LOL. I didn't mean that I'm a way that I had expected you to remember that diary! It just happened that earlier this morning someone from Lamar had reached out to me for permission to share the diary so it was fresh on my mind. The Chinese proverb applies here: "when the wind blows, some build walls, others build windmills"
Josh Marshall's WOTD:
Not Even A Competent Villain
News from Washington is now so grim that the daily Trumpstink report is being temporarily suspended. As vital as it is, quantifying Trumpstink requires a light heart and a fey spirit and crazed gunmen do not contribute to that atmosphere.
Stay upwind my friends. Trump too shall pass.
In be piece of good DC news, V, I was in town Wednesday night at the DNC Club and Joe Barton made an appearance just after I left. I was back again last night to watch the Congressional Baseball Game and afterwards several Republicans came by and had hot dogs with the Dems. (Don't tell Moddy, he'll spin it as a sign of 'weakness').
Given that as an old farm boy, I know exactly what goes into hot dogs, I'm not sure that feeding them to Republicans is a sign of friendship
LOL!
Somehow Bullshit's logo of Rick Perry deep throating that corn dog comes to my mind.
Because, why the hell not?
Trump appoints long-time family loyalist and event planner to oversee billions in New York Housing programs.
It's his wedding planner. Doesn't he need the wedding planner to be on stand-by in case Melania is shown the door? Especially after her "Don't-Touch-Me" photo op while they were in Israel.
The Grenfell fire in London killed at least 58 people, although many bodies may never be identified. The "vertical slum" may have had 600 people in its 120 flats at the time of the fire. It had recently been renovated by adding a more attractive (and more flammable) "cladding" to the exterior, to make the building less of an eyesore in the neighborhood.
However, the renovation did not include sprinkler systems. Residents were told to shelter in place, on the assumption that the fire would not spread as quickly as it did.
Teresa May's government and the neighborhood councils are being blamed for allowing the vertical slum to exist. Some say that the tragic inferno killed so many people "because they were poor". Public outcry and protests have been continuous since the June 14 blaze.
What will Britain learn from the tragedy? Not to make firetrap buildings? Not to segregate all poor people into a vertical slum? Perhaps Britain will take a lesson from the GOP representatives in the US Congress, who advocate the killing of poor people gradually, slowly, by lack of access to health care over time, not all at once in a big, dramatic inferno which creates terrible publicity.
I heard a report on the radio yesterday that it has been discovered that the cladding that was used was chosen because it was $2 per sq. metre cheaper than the fire retardant kind.
Profit before people…every time. Just the kind of politics praised by our Trumpians…which, to me, is becoming the nastiest, most insulting pejorative I know.