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Mayor Mike Surrenders To Trump, Points Fingers Ahead of “Operation Aurora”

Over the summer as the issue of migrant gangs in the city of Aurora, Colorado became a national political flashpoint, co-opted by now President-elect Donald Trump as part of his election-year narrative of a city, state, and imminently nation on the brink of destruction, the Republican Mayor of Aurora former Rep. Mike Coffman has proven […]

“Operation Aurora Is Coming,” Says Thrilled Aurora City Councilor

As the Aurora Sentinel’s Cassandra Ballard reports, despite half-hearted attempts by Aurora’s Republican Mayor Mike Coffman to combat rampant misinformation about the city spread in large part by Donald Trump in stump speeches throughout the country including just inside the boundaries of Aurora itself, a member of the GOP-controlled Aurora City Council, Danielle Jurinsky, who […]

Get More Smarter on Tuesday (November 19)

There are 35 shopping days until Christmas, so get your butt moving. Let’s Get More Smarter! 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 an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find us […]

Mayor Mike’s Aurora Empire Crumbling From The Inside?

As the Aurora Sentinel’s Susan Greene reports, all is not well on the Republican-controlled Aurora City Council, crafted over the course of years by former GOP congressman Mike Coffman but now beset with infighting centering on one particularly vociferous council member whose recent fame has come at a terrible cost for the rest of the […]

New Aurora Police Chief Doing Himself No Favors After Trump Rally Recruitment Scandal

As Cassandra Ballard reports for the Aurora Sentinel, the fifth new chief of police in Aurora since 2022, Todd Chamberlain, held his first public availability since the controversy over the department recruiting new officers from the crowd who attended ex-President Donald Trump’s rally on the edge of town early this month–an event at which Trump […]

The Tragedy Of Mayor Mike’s Cowardly Refusal To Say Trump’s Name

Susan Greene reports for the Aurora Sentinel on Mayor Mike Coffman’s State of the City address delivered yesterday, the first report back to the citizens of Aurora after ex-President Donald Trump traveled to the edge of town earlier this month to expound on the fiction that the city has been “taken over” by migrant gangs, […]

Aurora Slumlord “Crisis Comms” Now Shilling For Trump Too?

As readers who have been following the summerlong controversy over wildly exaggerated election-year rumors that the city of Aurora has been “conquered” by migrant gangs are aware, much of the story concerns several apartment buildings operated by one property management company CBZ Management, a company that has been out of compliance with city code on […]

So Many Reasons Why Recruiting Aurora Cops At Trump’s Rally Was A Terrible Idea

As veteran reporter Susan Greene reports for the Aurora Sentinel, there’s fresh controversy brewing in the wake of last Friday’s visit by Donald Trump to the northernmost reaches of the city of Aurora to promulgate his fictional portrayal of the city and the whole state of Colorado as a war zone overrun by “army of […]

Down The Darkest Rabbit Hole To A Place Trump Calls Aurora

The dust has settled in the extreme northern smidge of the city of Aurora next to Denver International Airport where ex-President Donald Trump held a rally Friday to promote his fictional narrative of the “takeover” of this Republican-controlled city of 400,000 by migrant gangs, to be followed shortly by the overrunning of the entire state […]

Colorado GOP Peeing Its Collective Pants Over Trump Visit

Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump will visit Aurora (sort of) on Friday when his campaign holds a rally at the Gaylord Resort, which is near Denver International Airport and not anywhere close to the apartment complex that he and other right-wing screechers claim has been taken over by Venezuelan gangs. In order to celebrate Trump’s […]

Trump Calls His Own Bluff On Aurora

As the Aurora Sentinel reports, word broke late yesterday (H/T to the Colorado Times Recorder) that ex-President Donald Trump, having blown a self-imposed deadline to visit the city of Aurora, Colorado after adding the false tale of the city’s “takeover” by Venezuelan gang members to his stump speeches, will indeed make an appearance in Aurora […]

Get More Smarter on Friday (Oct. 4)

Mail ballots in Colorado start, um, mailing one week from today. Let’s Get More Smarter! 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 an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find us on Facebook […]

“Dr. Phil” Jumps On Board The Aurora Crazy Tren

As Westword’s Bennito Kelty reports, the substantial viewership of daytime talk show host Dr. Phil McGraw, trusted by millions for the advice he dispenses on air but also with a record of controversies and legal trouble of his own manufacture, was infotained on Monday with yet another wildly exaggerated portrayal of Aurora, Colorado, a city […]

Poll: Is Trump Coming To Aurora Or Not?

As the Denver Post’s Seth Klamann reports, we’re coming up on two weeks since ex-President Donald Trump promised to visit what he describes as the war-torn streets of Aurora, Colorado, where roving Venezuelan “supergangs” are eating the dogs and cats… Sorry, we got the details mixed up. It’s Haitians eating the pets in Springfield, Ohio, […]

Trump Grows Aurora “Takeover” Fiction To Cover All Of Colorado

UPDATE: Gov. Jared Polis issued this statement welcoming Donald Trump to Colorado if he chooses to visit, but reminding Trump as a “convicted felon” to leave the “criminal elements that he brings with him” back in Washington: “Aurora is our third biggest city, over 400,000 people, it’s a terrific city, I was there last week. […]

Venezuelan Gangs Have Not (Yet) Taken Over This Podcast

This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast…the federal government is running out of time (again) to pass a continuing resolution (again) to fund the government for another few months (again), and our 8th favorite member of Congress is pretty responsible for it (again!) Then, the Colorado legislature cut about a billion dollars in taxes […]

Colorado Week in Review for September 22, 2024

awesome + uniting Colorado voter registrations surge after presidential debate, Taylor Swift endorsement Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott funds 7 grants for Colorado infants, toddlers with $2.5M gift New litters of elusive, highly endangered black-footed ferrets produced in southeastern Colorado awesome + controversy Colorado religious leaders support Amendment J on same-sex marriage Colorado’s next TABOR refund […]

Denver Gazette Running Ads With Falsehoods About Gangs Seizing an ‘Aurora Apartment Complex’

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Originally published at the Colorado Times Recorder It’s now well established that Venezuelan gangs did not take over apartment complexes in Aurora, but the Denver Gazette, a conservative online newspaper owned by GOP billionaire Phil Anschutz, is still running Facebook advertisements falsely claiming that a “Venezuelan gang used violence to seize […]

Delusional Mayor Mike Says He Can Change Trump’s Mind About Aurora

As we await the details of ex-President Donald Trump’s promised campaign visit to Aurora, Colorado, motivated by discredited “crisis comms” PR on behalf of an out-of-state slumlord has “fallen” to Venezuelan gang members, the city’s Republican Mayor Mike Coffman has a serious problem. After initially helping spread the false story that apartment buildings in the […]

Trump To Bring Hateful Debunked Double-Down To Aurora

That’s the news dominating local political news headlines this morning–after weeks of escalating misinformation, allegations laden with ulterior motives, and pleas by local residents to blame the real bad actors who are not repeat not a cartel of Venezuelan gang members in control of the 400,000 souls inhabiting the city of Aurora, Colorado, former President […]

Get More Smarter on Wednesday (Sept. 18)

Today is “World Water Monitoring Day,” which has since been renamed “World Water Monitoring Challenge” but should not be confused with “World Water Day.” Got it? Let’s Get More Smarter! 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 an […]

Get More Smarter on Tuesday (Sept. 17)

Happy Marathwada Liberation Day. Please celebrate responsibly. Let’s Get More Smarter! 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 an audio learner, check out The Get More Smarter Podcast. And don’t forget to find us on Facebook and the website formerly […]

How Mayor Mike And A Slumlord Invented The “Takeover” Of Aurora

The New York Times’ Jonathan Wiseman reported this weekend in depth on the controversy over the fictional “takeover” of the city of Aurora, Colorado by migrant gangs, which despite being debunked at every step in the false story’s spread peaked last week with former President Donald Trump promising that the “largest deportation in the history […]

Colorado Week in Review for September 15, 2024

awesome + uniting Denver ranked as the hottest labor market in the US Michelle Obama makes surprise visit to Denver bookstore Adams 14 to add more than a dozen new electric school buses to its fleet awesome + controversy Direct File, a free tax filing option, is available in Colorado starting with tax year 2025 […]

Trump: The Mass Deportations Will Begin In Aurora

As ABC News reports, once ex-President Donald Trump picked up the wildly exaggerated tales of Venezuelan gangs “taking over” the city of Aurora, Colorado in his stump speeches and this week’s punishing debate loss to Vice President Kamala Harris, it’s become an integral component of his message despite increasingly urgent attempts by local Republican elected […]

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