(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%
Republican Congressman Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina is not very good at not talking when he shouldn’t be talking. It is a trait he shares with many of his fellow Qaucus members in the House of Representatives, including Colorado’s own Rep. Lauren “Q*Bert” Boebert (R-ifle). Last week Cawthorn got blasted on social media for taking […]
Last week, as most area news outlets reported, Gov. Jared Polis and a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers unveiled legislation meant to crack down on the distribution of the deadly synthetic opioid drug fentanyl, which in recent years has been mass-produced and in some cases substituted to users without their knowledge for other drugs with lethal […]
March isn’t really going out like a lamb or a lion. 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 […]
Politico reporting today on a bombshell federal court decision against former University of Colorado Visiting Scholar in Conservative Thought and Policy John Eastman, who was seeking to keep concealed over 100 emails sought by the Select Committee investigating the events leading up to the violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021: A […]
This week in episode 102 of the Get More Smarter Podcast, hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii examine the results of a very strange weekend for Colorado Republicans at their county assemblies. Later, we talk with Congressman Joe Neguse (D-Boulderish) about campaigning in a newly-redrawn congressional district; chairing the U.S. House Subcommittee on National Parks, […]
Because ready or not: One week from tomorrow the loudest election conspiracy theorist in America “MyPillow Guy” Mike Lindell will be in Colorado to headline a rally for his dear friend and recipient of much Big Pillow largesse, indicted but still-in-it-to-win-it Secretary of State candidate Tina Peters. Also headlining is the Colorado GOP U.S. Senate […]
SATURDAY UPDATE: The Durango Herald’s Skye Witley: A newsletter distributed by U.S. Rep. Lauren Boebert’s office this week touts “nine Boebert wins for Colorado,” but all nine items were included in a bill that the representative voted against earlier this month. Boebert celebrated investments worth about $2.3 billion and measures such as preventing the use […]
Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was released from a hospital today after spending the last week being treated for what a spokesperson has called an “infection.” As CNN reports, official sources have been oddly evasive about Thomas’s condition: Thomas, 73, entered Sibley Memorial Hospital last Friday after experiencing flu-like symptoms. The court’s public information officer […]
The Aurora Sentinel’s Max Levy reports on the latest controversy to emerge from Aurora’s newly-installed Republican majority City Council, which in just a few months has mired itself in a string of embarrassing miscues and silly political grandstands that have distracted from their agenda even with the strength to push it though on party-line votes. […]
(The privileges of public service — Promoted by Colorado Pols) POLS UPDATE: The Colorado Democratic Party tags in: “It’s clear that as an elected official Gino believed he was above the law. Even more troubling, he showed a disturbing lack of respect for Colorado police and he may have encouraged underage drinking at his home. […]
After three days of contentious hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee, the overall consensus appears to be that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Joe Biden’s eminently qualified nominee to succeed retiring Justice Stephen Breyer on the U.S. Supreme Court, acquitted herself brilliantly against a wave of Republican attacks whose familiar vitriol seemed to wear especially […]
We’ve discussed gasoline prices quite a bit this month, either through our own fact checking or by speaking directly with actual experts. The short version of why gasoline is so expensive is this: Because oil and gas companies are making so much money already — and committed to stock buybacks and dividends for shareholders — […]
AP reports sad news that Madeleine Albright, the first woman U.S. Secretary of State with many friends in Colorado, has passed away: Albright spent her teen years in Denver and went on to work at The Denver Post. She was inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame in 2010. Her father, Joseph Korbel, was […]
Happy Day of the Sea. 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 Twitter. […]
9NEWS reports on the latest developments from the Douglas County Board of Education, whose new conservative majority plunged into controversy a few weeks ago by violating open meetings laws in their plot to fire the district’s popular former superintendent Corey Wise. Last night, the board had a choice to advance as “sole finalist” between a […]
Your NCAA Tournament bracket is probably already worthless, but that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy a different sort of bracket. This week on The Get More Smarter Podcast, hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii were “inspired” by the godawful gubernatorial campaign of Republican Hiedi Heidi Ganahl to consider where she might land on a list […]
We reported yesterday on the nearly clean sweep of Republicans from state legislative districts in arch-conservative El Paso County, a turnover driven by a number of factors including the infiltration of the county party apparatus by the far-right organizing group FEC United. In the case of first-term incumbent GOP Rep. Mary Bradfield representing southeastern Colorado […]
As the Colorado Sun’s political team reports in today’s Unaffiliated newsletter, indicted Mesa County Clerk and Republican Secretary of State candidate Tina Peters was everywhere over the weekend for Republican Party county assemblies across the state, receiving standing ovations that had to make Peters feel at least a little better about the crappy jail chow […]
We’ve written at length in this space about Republican U.S. Senate candidate Ron Hanks — specifically that he is the “center of gravity” in the large GOP field vying for the opportunity to challenge incumbent Sen. Michael Bennet in November. It seems that Colorado Republicans are finally coming around to the fact that Hanks is […]
Earlier today in the Colorado Senate, Senate Bill 22-139 passed by a nearly-unanimous 32-1 vote. This bill establishes the 19th of June as Colorado eleventh holiday, Juneteenth, commemorating the belated notification of slaves in Texas by occupying Union troops that they had been set free by the Emancipation Proclamation two years before. The bill to […]
El Paso County is home to Colorado Springs, the Air Force Academy, and the Fort Carson Army base, all of which contribute to the county’s large contingent of State Representatives. Because El Paso has long been reliably right-wing in its politics, the county can usually count on all six of its State Representatives representing the […]
Working through the results from last weekend’s county assemblies, the number one takeaway for us so far is a pummeling for the current Republican leader of the Colorado House Minority as well as the expected succeeding GOP Senate Minority Leader, each of whom lost to upstart challengers Saturday. In Northern Colorado’s House District 51, a […]
This week in episode 101 of the Get More Smarter Podcast, hosts Jason Bane and Ian Silverii discuss the worst statewide campaigns in Colorado over the last 20 years. Could any of the 2022 campaigns join this list? We ask that same question of three-time returning guest Charles Ashby of The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, […]
A breaking story on the AP newswire this afternoon from reporter Nicholas Riccardi is shaking up the Colorado GOP U.S. Senate primary just as party county assemblies prepare to meet tomorrow. Gino Campana, the ultra-wealthy real estate developer and former Fort Collins city councilor competing in the assembly process to reach the June 28th primary […]
FRIDAY UPDATE #2: The Colorado Sun’s “Unaffiliated” newsletter apparently agrees with us on the timeline of events: State Rep. Shane Sandridge, R-Colorado Springs, suspended his reelection campaign Thursday after Republican Rose Pugliese, a former Mesa County Commissioner who now lives in Colorado Springs, announced a bid for his seat. —– FRIDAY UPDATE: Keep an eye on […]
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