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Did you think he was just going to sit on that $2.1 million? In some ways, noting this is a little redundant: you can’t turn on a TV in the Denver/Boulder market without seeing CD-2 candidate Jared Polis’ new ads. We’ve heard the media buy for Polis is enormous; hundreds of thousands of dollars per […]

Continuing what the Jared Polis campaign sees as a theme worth pressing home (if you filled up your tank recently, it’ll be tough to disagree), he announced a detailed energy plan today. In addition to staking out a growing pocketbook issue, it’s meant to draw a hard distinction between himself and (putatively) “energy industry friendly” […]

POLS UPDATE: Do any of you out there in blog land know how this affects the Millionaire’s Amendment for Fitz-Gerald and Shafroth? We don’t know the answer off-hand. If I was in the Fitz-Gerald or Shafroth campaign I’d be freaking out about now. My guess is that Jared assumes this will be his final self-donation […]

The biggest primary fight in Colorado saw movement today, with the assembly in CD-2 ending up with a result both predictable and unpredictable. The predictable part? Front-runner Joan Fitz-Gerald received 60% of the vote. That is, a solid majority, which is of course all that will matter on August 12th. But we would be lying […]

CD-2 candidate Jared Polis announced today that he has hired a new campaign manager and online director, completing a shake-up that began with the departure of former manager Wanda James last month. Release follows: decent resumes, will this be the fresh perspective that Polis so desperately needs? The buzz on new manager Robert Becker is […]

Just like in real life, losers follow the winners. Today, click below to read our WINNERS from Tuesday’s Primary. Doug Lamborn Lamborn is a big winner not just because he won a three-way primary on Tuesday, but because he probably ended any future challenges by doing so. He has absolutely no chance of rising any […]

UPDATE: Polis keeps the pressure on with a blast mail to his substantial email constituent list (follows). As we noted a couple of days ago, and the Denver Post’s Jessica Fender writes for Politics West: The recent flap over Joan Fitz-Gerald’s 2004 advocacy for using cyanide to mine gold – a process environmentalists object to […]

UPDATE: In a totally unexpected development (cough), opponent Jared Polis calls for a ban on cyanide mining. Release follows. UPDATE: by popular demand, here’s the letter Fitz-Gerald sent to Summit County in 2004 opposing the ban on cyanide mining. As the Rocky Mountain News reports: Second Congressional District candidate Joan Fitz-Gerald is drawing fire from […]

( – promoted by Colorado Pols) The RMN headline says it all: “Democratic rivals deny they’ve gone negative.”  The ads referred to in the story have been the subject of multiple posts and hundreds of comments here, so no need to rehash them, but if they aren’t negative then McCain isn’t old, Barack isn’t inexperienced […]