(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%
As the Denver Post reports: Seeking a way to lead the state out of its voting-machine morass, Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman said Wednesday that he favors using paper ballots at polling places for the 2008 elections. Coffman said he has more confidence in a traditional paper-ballot-and-polling-place system than relying only on electronic-voting kiosks. […]
Republican Secretary of State Mike Coffman has said that he will not resign his seat in order to run for congress in CD-6 – unless GOP leaders make him angry – but it’s starting to look as though he may not have a choice. From the major voting problems facing Colorado in 2008 to a […]
UPDATE: Liberal group Progress Now calls on Coffman to immediately resign, citing “latest in pattern” of conflicts of interest. Release after the jump. As the Rocky Mountain News reports: The political consulting company running Secretary of State Mike Coffman’s congressional campaign also was working for a voting machine manufacturer when Coffman gave that company’s devices […]
As the Denver Post reported yesterday: Secretary of State Mike Coffman said Wednesday that he won’t step down from his position to free up more time to campaign for Congress. “I will serve as the secretary of state all the way to January of 2009,” Coffman said. But if he loses his bid for the […]
All they have to say is that they believe life begins at conception but the initiative’s wording would turn women who used assisted fertilization technologies and their physicians into murderers and it must be defeated. Turning couples who are so determined to have kids that they spend 10s of thousands trying to get pregnant into […]
An internet search today failed to reveal any website for Mike Coffman’s campaign for the 6th Congressional District. Coffman merely has his current Secretary of State site at http://www.mikecoffm… He needs to get a move on. Already, Ted Harvey has a web presence for his Congressional aspirations, even if the site is rather silly in […]
Perhaps Colorado Secretary of State-cum CD-6 candidate Mike Coffman has something else on his mind, as the Grand Junction Sentinel reports: Mesa County Clerk and Recorder Janice Rich lashed out Thursday at Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman, saying he has failed to adequately communicate with her office ahead of the 2008 election. Rich told […]
Republican leaders have failed in their attempt to dissuade Secretary of State Mike Coffman from running for congress in CD-6, but Coffman apparently isn’t resting easy. We hear that Coffman has told GOP Chair Dick Wadhams (who led the efforts to talk him out of running) that he will immediately resign from his SOS post […]
Republican Secretary of State Mike Coffman made it official yesterday: He’s running for congress in CD-6. As the Rocky Mountain News reports: Secretary of State Mike Coffman on Tuesday formally filed to run for Congress, angering some Republicans who fear a Democrat will take over his state job but thrilling others who want an Iraq […]
As the Rocky Mountain News reports: Don’t do it, they begged. Don’t run for Congress and possibly give the secretary of state’s office to a Democrat. Two top Republicans met with Secretary of State Mike Coffman this week to ask him to reconsider his decision about a possible run in the 6th Congressional District next […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) UPDATE: The Denver Post confirms today what Colorado Pols first reported yesterday: Coffman is ready to run: Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman, a Republican, “has every intention to run,” spokesman Sean Tonner said. Tonner, of course, works for Phaseline Strategies. Republican Secretary of State Mike Coffman may not […]
From the Rocky Mountain News: The spokesman for Secretary of State Mike Coffman announced his resignation today. Jonathan Tee is going to work for the Alliance for Choice in Education, a group that provides financial assistance to low-income parents who want to send their child to a school of their choice… …Tee last year was […]
As the Rocky Mountain News reports: The Denver County District Attorney’s Office will wait for a state auditor’s report before deciding whether to investigate two complaints that allege an employee and political ally of Secretary of State Mike Coffman sold election data for personal gain… “It seemed like we might well be duplicating efforts if […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) A Press Release from CCEG – Is Coffman going down? DENVER – Colorado Citizens for Ethics in Government (CCEG) today called on Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey to initiate a criminal investigation of Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman and an employee in his office, Dan Kopelman. Through a […]
As you know, Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman responded yesterday to posts we made in the last week about his service in Iraq around the time of the Haditha massacre. The court martial for the commanding officer of the Marine battalion accused of killing 24 Iraqi civilians in November of 2005 in Haditha is […]
Republican Secretary of State Mike Coffman has responded to recent posts at Colorado Pols regarding his involvement in Haditha, Iraq. Click below for the complete statement received by email… In response to recent posts by ColoradoPols, I have drafted the following statement to set the record straight: My final assignment in Iraq was in the […]
Last week, we discussed the history of Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman’s statements to the press regarding the Haditha massacre, which he was involved with as a civil affairs officer during his recent tour of duty in Iraq. Specifically, Coffman is on the record stating that local Iraqi officials didn’t complain about the massacre […]
During the heat of the election season last year, questions about what Colorado Secretary of State Mike Coffman may or may not have known about the apparently illegal killings of Iraqi civilians in the city of Haditha–where Major Coffman was deployed during his recent tour in Iraq–surfaced briefly. Rocky Mountain News columnist Jason Salzman reported […]
Jonathan Tee, a spokesman for Secretary of State Mike Coffman (who, by the way, has still not spoken to the media himself about his current troubles), sent us an unsolicited e-mail response to a post yesterday where we wondered if Coffman’s new political prohibition rules were even legal. Here is the response in full: The […]
Republican Secretary of State Mike Coffman has been under increasing fire lately for his own mistakes, and as much as his office likes to pretend that he is a victim of unfair criticism, there’s no denying the fact that Coffman puts himself in these bad positions time and time again. Today Coffman spoke at a […]
Republican Secretary of State Mike Coffman just keeps digging his own grave. Apparently Coffman’s new motto is “Do As I Say, Not As I Do. Or, Really, Not as I Say.” According to Colorado Confidential: Just one day after issuing a stringent set of rules restricting political activities by employees of his office, Republican Secretary […]
Republican Secretary of State Mike Coffman is still on the ropes over the actions of political appointee and longtime confidant Dan Kopelman, and he’s taking more punches every day. As the Rocky Mountain News reports: …The new policy comes a week after Coffman demoted an elections worker and longtime political ally who operated a side […]
You can file this under “too little, too late.” Republican Secretary of State Mike Coffman, who has been under fire after it was revealed that political appointee Dan Kopelman was running a business selling voter lists, today announced new internal policies. According to a press release: Secretary of State Mike Coffman today announced a new […]
The more Secretary of State Mike Coffman tries to distance himself from this scandal, the worse it gets. The state auditor has launched an investigation into the side work of Coffman’s political appointee, Dan Kopelman. As the Rocky Mountain News reports: The state auditor has broadened an investigation of the Colorado secretary of state’s office […]
( – promoted by Colorado Pols) The IT manager to Secretary of State Mike Coffman has been caught red-handed selling “targeted voter data” to other Republicans through the right-wing website PoliticalLiveWires.com, ePluribus Media reports. According to his online resume, Dan Kopelman is currently “Elections Technology Manager” with “oversight and guidance of the State Wide Voter […]
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