(D) J. Hickenlooper*
(D) Julie Gonzales
(R) Janak Joshi
80%
20%
10%
(D) Jena Griswold
(D) M. Dougherty
(D) Hetal Doshi
40%↓
30%
30%
(D) Jeff Bridges
(R) Kevin Grantham
80%↑
20%↓
(D) Diana DeGette*
(D) Milat Kiros
(D) Wanda James
70%↓
20%↑
10%↓
(D) Joe Neguse*
(R) Somebody
90%
2%
(R) Jeff Hurd*
(D) Alex Kelloff
(R) H. Scheppelman
60%↓
30%↓
20%↑
(R) Lauren Boebert*
(D) E. Laubacher
80%
20%
(R) Jeff Crank*
(D) Jessica Killin
53%↓
48%↑
(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%
Lawmakers will reconvene next Thursday for a special legislative session in order to figure out how to make another $800 million dollars in cuts to the state budget necessitated by President Trump’s “big beautiful bullshit bill” enacted by Congress in early July. In the meantime, Colorado Republicans have been trying very hard to put their […]
As the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Julia Terruso reports, a Beltway-based conservative “dark money” group calling itself the Center for Individual Freedom spent several thousand dollars of their unaccountable cash running ads in Colorado thanking someone by the name of “Rep. Evans” for his vote in favor of the “We’re All Going To Die Act” Republican budget […]
It’s history that Colorado Republicans don’t like to get into these days, but those of us with intact long-term memories can recall a time when Donald Trump had not yet supplanted values to become the Colorado GOP’s personal object of veneration, and even resisted Trump’s hostile takeover of the Republican Party. Even before Donald Trump […]
Freshman Rep. Jeff “Bread Sandwich” Hurd (R-Grand Junction) is desperate to convince constituents, journalists — and perhaps, himself — that his two votes in favor of President Trump’s “big beautiful bullshit budget bill” won’t end up destroying rural hospitals in the third congressional district. As Marianne Goodland of the publication formerly known as the Colorado […]
As Michael Karlik reports for the Colorado Springs Gazette’s political blog, a lawsuit seeking to halt a consumer product safety law passed this year by state lawmakers failed in federal court this week: In June, Gov. Jared Polis signed House Bill 1161 into law, which requires retailers of gas stoves to affix a “yellow adhesive […]
UPDATE: Here’s the latest example of the “post truth” bubble Republicans are living in today: This simply isn’t true, folks. It has never been true, and in all probability never will be. But Republicans say catch them if you can. —– One of the more pernicious effects of the rise of Donald Trump and the […]
This week on the Get More Smarter Podcast, it’s a Special Session Special Episode Special! Again! And this time it’s not even our fault! As the effects of the Big Bullshit Bill come into focus, Colorado has to cut ANOTHER billion dollars from the state budget on top of the billion dollars TABOR forced us to […]
If Congress were like a poker game, freshman Rep. Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Lupton) would be in big trouble. That’s because Evans has an unshakable “tell” that gives him away every time. It’s quite simple: If Gabe Evans is talking, then he’s lying. Much like former Republican Sen. Cory Gardner — the last Republican to win […]
As ABC News reported yesterday, another U.S. Supreme Court precedent that millions of Americans have considered to be settled law for over a decade could once again be upended, as the court considers whether to consider a challenge to the 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges decision making marriage equality for same-sex couples the law of the […]
As the Colorado Springs Gazette’s Marianne Goodland reports, the ongoing internal conflict within the morally headless Colorado House GOP minority caucus escalated again yesterday with the filing of a campaign finance complaint against Rep. Ron Weinberg of Loveland, who is already beset by allegations of serial sexual harassment that scuttled his short-lived bid to serve […]
As state lawmakers prepare to reconvene for a special session later this month to address the budget shortfall created by the federal reconciliation budget bill that every Republican member of Congress from Colorado voted for and President Donald Trump signed into law, Colorado Republicans are fighting an uphill battle to shift the blame for the […]
Republicans such as Congressman Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Lupton) — who loves to remind anyone who will listen that he was once a police officer on the hardscrabble streets of Arvada — often go out of their way to scare constituents about the dangers of living in Colorado as a way to promote a shaky narrative […]
UPDATE: Rep. Jason Crow posts this update from outside the Aurora ICE detention center, where he and colleagues were apparently allowed in unlike previous visits: Today, I led a Congressional oversight visit to Aurora’s ICE facility. We will not be deterred from doing our jobs, and that’s exactly why we made this visit today. Ensuring […]
The creators of South Park (and owners of the famous Casa Bonita restaurant in Lakewood) returned this week with their second episode of the season, which continued skewering the Trump administration. The latest episode included an ICE raid at a “Dora the Explorer” concert at Ball Arena in Denver. The storyline centers largely on Homeland […]
Rolling Stone reports today on a new resolution introduced in the U.S. House by a trio of vulnerable Republicans including America’s Most Vulnerable Incumbent™ Rep. Gabe Evans that takes the denial and doublespeak following the passage of the historically unpopular “We’re All Going To Die Act” Republican budget bill to a credulity breaking point: Last […]
With Congress adjourned for the August recess, vulnerable Republicans like Colorado’s Rep. Gabe Evans are holding impromptu photo-ops with various institutions and stakeholders in their districts–since publicly announcing these events in advance would lead to protests–and in Evans’ case, trying to force a script on locals to avoid the hard questions about the policies of […]
Congressman Gabe Evans (R-Ft. Lupton) continues to claim — despite ludicrous amounts of evidence to the contrary — that 100% of immigrant detentions and deportations conducted by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) are justified because of the risks to public safety. Evans keeps going back to the same talking point: That the goal of new […]
UPDATE: 9NEWS’ Kyle Clark sums up the common problem with X and the Colorado House GOP: —– Longtime state house reporter Bente Birkeland at Colorado Public Radio brings us a story we’ve heard the periphery of but hadn’t yet been privy to the full nauseating details. If you think the state of interparty relations in […]
UPDATE: Jesse Paul of The Colorado Sun makes the same point about unserious Republicans in the legislature: —– We knew it was coming after Congressional Republicans passed President Trump’s “big, beautiful, bullshit budget bill” last month, and here it is: Another special legislative session. As Seth Klamann reports for The Denver Post: For the third […]
Democrats continue to push for more information about the “Epstein files” that the Trump administration is desperate to ignore. According to a press release from the office of Sen. John Hickenlooper (D-Denver): U.S. Senators John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet along with 21 of their Senate Democratic colleagues introduced the Epstein Files Transparency Act to direct the Department […]
There’s a famous quote that is often used in discussing water issues in Colorado: “Whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting.” Colorado’s water laws are uniquely complicated, owing in large part to the fact that some 40 million people in Colorado, Arizona, Nevada, and Southern California rely on water from the Colorado River to […]
We don’t normally find much credible to cite over at the conservative website Complete Colorado, once colloquially known as Colorado Drudge before the world forgot who Matt Drudge ever was, but a story from the weekend by right-wing paid poison pen Sherrie Peif did catch our attention–a piece ostensibly reporting on, but without much subtlety […]
Republicans in Washington have had what can best be described as a fraught relationship with nonpartisan bean-counting authorities like the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) going back many years. Back in 2017, when the then-GOP majority during President Donald Trump’s first term was trying and failing to repeal the Affordable Care Act, then-Sen. Cory Gardner asked […]
Rolling Stone kicked off the week with new polling numbers that will sour even President Donald Trump’s Diet Coke-leathered innards: Americans are overwhelmingly skeptical of Donald Trump‘s handling of information related to the Jeffrey Epstein case. In a new UMass Amherst national poll, 70 percent of respondents said Trump is not handling the Epstein case […]
The New York Times reports this fine Friday afternoon just in case you’re still paying attention: Ghislaine Maxwell, the longtime associate of Jeffrey Epstein now serving a 20-year prison sentence for sexually exploiting and abusing teenage girls, has been moved from a federal prison in Florida to minimum-security prison camp in Texas, her lawyer said […]
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