(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(D) Julie Gonzales
(R) Janak Joshi
80%
40%
20%
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Hetal Doshi
50%
40%↓
30%
(D) Jeff Bridges
(D) Brianna Titone
(R) Kevin Grantham
50%↑
40%↓
30%
(D) Diana DeGette*
(D) Wanda James
(D) Milat Kiros
80%
20%
10%↓
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Alex Kelloff
(R) H. Scheppelman
60%↓
40%↓
30%↑
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) E. Laubacher
(D) Trisha Calvarese
90%
30%↑
20%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
55%↓
45%↑
(D) Jason Crow*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(D) B. Pettersen*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Gabe Evans*
(D) Shannon Bird
(D) Manny Rutinel
45%↓
30%
30%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
80%
20%
DEMOCRATS
REPUBLICANS
95%
5%
Today is Gun Violence Prevention Day. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols! If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). If you are more of a visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show. TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► President Obama was in Colorado […]
Welcome to the last day of May. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols! If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► Just how rich is Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump? As Politico found out, the answer depends on the skill level of […]
(Stay classy – Promoted by Colorado Pols) Delta County Republican Chair Linda Sorenson shared an image on her Facebook page last week depicting Ronald Reagan nursing a chimpanzee. The photo is sandwiched by the phrase, “I’ll be damned… Reagan used to babysit Obama.” Sorenson told me in a very brief phone interview today that it […]
After a wild week in local news, the rapidly escalating scandal over allegedly forged petitions that helped Republican U.S. Senate candidate Jon Keyser qualify for the 2016 primary ballot made its way to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow last night. There’s really nothing quite like an in-depth Rachel Maddow takedown: Maddow replays lots of details from Denver7 reporter […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Its not news that Colorado’s economic recovery has been uneven. As the Front Range booms much of the Western Slope has been left behind. Consider this article from the Daily Sentinel, today: Colorado’s population rate ranked as the nation’s second-fastest in growth in 2014 and 2015, with most of the increases […]
Stock up now, Coloradans; we could get “up to” 35 feet of snow this weekend. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols! If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► Supporters of Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump are pretty angry about what […]
While the Colorado political world digests the entry today of perennial loser Ryan Frazier into the Republican primary for the 2016 U.S. Senate race, we’ve received word of yet another ambitious small-timer who may throw his hat into the ring. Rep. Jon Keyser of Morrison is reportedly making the rounds with Republican high-rollers in an effort to convince […]
The Colorado Secretary of State has released early (and unofficial) voter turnout numbers; enjoy the spreadsheet. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► Governor John Hickenlooper has asked the Colorado Supreme Court to […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado Results Counter Claims of Republican “Coast to Coast” Victories as 2016 Omen of Success This blog will be a bit of a contrarian view regarding the 2015 elections. Much of the media is reporting the national results as a rebuke to Democrats and President Obama. Of course, there are no national results […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Methane is a greenhouse gas some 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. It is a pollutant when released into the atmosphere, often a precursor to ozone, and is itself a volatile compound that may signal a threat of area toxicity depending what other compounds are present in the gas. It […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Forget about buying New Belgium Craft Beer in Craig, Colorado. Most of the liquor stores, and some of the bars, just aren’t selling it anymore. The boycott is a reaction to New Belgium’s support of the work of the Wild Earth Guardians (WEG). WEG has successfully promoted an environmental lawsuit halting expansion of the ColoWyo […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Western Colorado Climate Challenge & Solar Fair May 1-3 Paonia, CO The Western Slope is rolling up its sleeves and making a difference for Colorado’s climate. In terms of tangible progress across the region developing alternative and innovative energy solutions. And the first weekend of May in Paonia. That Western Colorado is […]
Here’s a sentence nobody ever wants to have said about them: It’s not technically treason. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner talked to the Denver […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) By @ColoFarmFood, crossposted at ColoradoFarmFood.org Attention has been focused on Denver, as Governor Hickenlooper’s Oil and Gas Task Force finishes its work, mostly avoiding the contentious issues that surround the industrial realities of oil and gas—noise, pollution, traffic, and impacts to land and existing uses—which led to its formation 18 months […]
As the Aspen Times' Scott Condon reports, newly elected Sen. Kerry Donovan of Vail is taking heat from her Democratic constituents–otherwise known as her base–over her co-sponsorship of the GOP's bill to repeal the 15-round gun magazine limit passed in 2013: Donovan, a Vail Democrat, came under fire at a town hall meeting at the Aspen […]
After yesterday's story by the Grand Junction Sentinel's Charles Ashby about the death in a GOP-controlled Senate committee of a bill to provide relief to rural communities impacted by layoffs, that paper's editorial board weighed in this morning with a blistering editorial against the chair of the committee responsible: Republican Sen. Ray Scott of Grand […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Yesterday alleged "rural champions" Senators Scott and Sonnenberg conspired to kill a bill carefully tailored to benefit rural Colorado. Charles Ashby is reporting in the Daily Sentinel: DENVER — For all their recent protestations about Democrats allegedly waging a war on rural Colorado, Senate Republicans shot down a bill Tuesday aimed squarely at […]
Two donors, oil and gas investor Mitchell Solich and mozzarella billionaire James Leprino, dropped a total of $40,000 in late September into the Jefferson County Commissioner race supporting Commissioner Don Rosier over US Marine Lt. Colonel and Delta pilot John Flerlage. Solich's money is on top of $11,000 he pitched in earlier and $1000 from […]
Earlier this week, we took note of the fact that Republican SD-5 candidate Don Suppes has suspended both of his Twitter accounts following disclosure of a Tweet from last May linking to a white supremacist website as an "interesting read." Suppes, who bills himself as the "most conservative mayor in Colorado," is already in hot […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Senator Gail Schwartz, who has rather tirelessly worked on behalf of Senate District 5 is term-limited, and the battle to replace her is considered one of the top races this cycle for control of the Colorado Senate. The contest is between Kerry Donavan, town councilor for Vail, and member of a […]
Webster defines keystone as "the central principle or part of a policy, system, etc., on which all else depends". Yesterday's announcement by our President set the stage for our nation to begin the process of addressing our carbon pollution, as ordered by the Supreme Court in 2007 – and now regulated by the EPA under […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Eight years ago I gave the commencement address for the Colorado State University – College of Agriculture Sciences graduates. Colorado citizens had just voted to establish the first citizens-initiated portfolio standard in America, Amendment 37. The initiative, an epic 'David v. Goliath' story that only came about after three failed attempts […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Dear Chairman Call, I'm not your typical terrorist: a fifth-generation Coloradan, a Yuma County native and graduate of a small rural K-12 school, Idalia High School. Upon return from college I settled in Wray where I raised my three children. I was active in local activities – a founding member of […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) There is a coming war on the western economy. Not the fake war promoted by our federally-subsidized rural electric system but a real one, waged by a formidable opponent: Mother Nature. If there was ever an argument for a transition to a 21st-century energy infrastructure, look no further than our current […]
(Quite a smackdown of the Denver Post – promoted by Colorado Pols) On Thursday, the Denver Post editorial board published a brief but disingenuous editorial that can only fairly be described as a declaration of war against Colorado’s middle class vis-à-vis Colorado’s state employees. At issue, ostensibly, is the 3% pay raise that state employees […]
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