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Gardner Backs Into Corner on Kavanaugh Confirmation

UPDATE: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is promising a Kavanaugh confirmation vote this week. —– As Kyle Clark of 9News reports this afternoon via Twitter: Four days after we asked, @SenCoryGardner‘s spokesman tells #9NEWS that Gardner finds Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s testimony credible. #copolitics #breakingnotbreaking — Kyle Clark (@KyleClark) October 1, 2018 This is potentially a […]

Get More Smarter on Monday (October 1)

The Colorado Rockies play the Los Angeles Dodgers at 2:09 pm today for the NL West Division Title. It’s time to 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 a visual learner, check out The Get […]

The Great Colorado Payback #IsDown

The so-called “Great Colorado Payback,” the troubled program run by Colorado Treasurer Walker Stapleton to reunite Coloradans with lost funds that has been the focus of a good deal of negative press as complaints and wait times have piled up, has a more fundamental problem: This was brought to our attention several days ago, but […]

The News Keeps Getting Worse for Coffman

Last week ended with bad news for Republican Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Aurora), who learned that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Super PAC (Congressional Leadership Fund) had decided to pull out of CO-6 amid growing concern that the Crowmentum might be too much to overcome by November. In mid-September, we finally moved Democrat Jason Crow ahead of Coffman on The […]

More Trouble for Coffman: Paul Ryan’s PAC Pulling Out of CO-6

The Crowmentum grows. Congressman Mike Coffman (R-Aurora) appears to have reached the end of his political rope: NEWS: House GOP triage continues .@CLFSuperPAC cutting off MIKE COFFMAN + MIKE BISHOP more to come… — Alex Isenstadt (@politicoalex) September 28, 2018 The Wall Street Journal confirms that House Speaker Paul Ryan’s Super PAC, Congressional Leadership Fund, […]

BREAKING: Kavanaugh Confirmation Vote Delayed

UPDATE (2:05 pm): Senate Republicans have agreed to a one-week delay on a vote to confirm Kavanaugh so that an investigation can be conducted into sexual assault allegations. —– UPDATE (12:39 pm): We appear to have us a stalemate: Lisa Murkowski tells @NBCNews she supports @JeffFlake 1 week delay so Mitch McConnell does not have the votes […]

Republican Senate Blowing Off Deborah Ramirez

UPDATE: USA TODAY: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley disputed accusations from Democrats that he and his staff have tried to brush away allegations against Brett Kavanaugh from a second accuser, Deborah Ramirez. During Friday’s committee meeting, the Iowa Republican said he “acted immediately” to investigate her charges and that his staff “repeatedly” tried to […]

This is an Actual Newspaper or Something

UPDATE: Kyle Clark is appropriately bewildered by all of this. —– Take a look at the sentence below. We’re not going to provide any context quite yet, because it’s instructive just to read these words as they are written: Liberal political activist Kyle Clark, a 9 News Denver anchor, rules against Republicans and Hughes more […]

Senate Republicans Make Ridiculous Late Effort to Muddy the Waters for Kavanaugh Confirmation

The news today will be dominated by two things: Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein’s planned meeting with President Trump at the White House, which may end with Rosenstein out of a job (postponed), and the Senate Judiciary Committee hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. The Kavanaugh hearings got underway at 8:00 this morning, with Dr. Christine […]

Giffords PAC Acts Swiftly After Ad Hits Too Close To Home

Denver7’s Blair Miller reports on a controversy that erupted this week over an ad from Giffords PAC, hitting Rep. Mike Coffman’s opposition to gun safety laws and support from the National Rifle Association with a visual that bore a disturbing similarity to actual events in Colorado over a decade ago: The parents of Emily Keyes […]

Brauchler Now More Skeptical Of Laws Allowing Police To Take Guns From Dangerous People

(Backpedaling to appease Dudley Brown? – Promoted by Colorado Pols) The Republican candidate for Colorado attorney general, George Brauchler, is now more skeptical than he was this spring of legislation allowing law enforcement officials to ask the courts for permission to take guns from people deemed to pose a significant risk to themselves or others. […]

Banner Flies Over Boulder To Support Deborah Ramirez

As the Boulder Daily Camera’s Mitchell Byars reports: In days since she came forward accusing Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, support for Boulder’s Deborah Ramirez has come from all over the county. Now it’s even coming out of the sky.

Victim, Not Perp: Local Media Swiftly Debunks Smear On Polis

UPDATE: Local conservative commentator Ari Armstrong calls out Republicans: This is really a shameful Tweet, @COHouseGOP. a) Polis's name change had nothing to do with this. b) The appropriate officials scrutinized him and determined him to be the victim of an attempted crime. If you can't be better than this you deserve to lose. https://t.co/9oIyLeiPAn […]

Get More Smarter on Wednesday (September 26)

The news is 30-40% Kavanaugh today. It’s time to 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 a visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show.   TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► And then there […]

Laughter is (Not) a Yuge Sign of Respect

UPDATE: Maybe Trump is a reader of Colorado Pols? From CNN: President Trump claims that world leaders were “laughing with” him, not at him, during his speech at the United Nations General Assembly. —– President Trump addressed members of the United Nations in New York on Tuesday, and as you may have heard, it did […]

Gardner’s Hollow Words on Kavanaugh Accusers Exposed

Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) said on Monday that he “absolutely supports” a Senate investigation into claims from a Boulder woman who has levied sexual misconduct charges at Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. But that was Monday. Today Gardner appeared at a press conference with Senate Republican leadership in which Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell essentially promised […]

Who Will Win in CO-6: Coffman or Crow? (Round 2)

The Crowmentum in CO-6 looks to be very real indeed, but we need your opinion, wise readers of Colorado Pols. As always, we want to know who you think will be the winner in November, not who you support or who you would prefer to see emerge victorious. The point of this exercise is to track how […]

Get More Smarter on Tuesday (September 25)

T-minus six weeks until Election Day. It’s time to 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 a visual learner, check out The Get More Smarter Show.   TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► Supreme Court nominee Brett […]

POTUS Assails Character Of Local Kavanaugh Accuser

Washington Post–you knew this was coming, but the shock is no less visceral: President Trump on Tuesday attacked the second woman who has accused Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh of sexual misconduct, dismissing her account because she was “totally inebriated and all messed up,” and accused Democrats of playing a “con game” in an attempt to […]

Gardner’s Man In North Dakota: “Even If It’s All True, Does It Disqualify Him?”

The Washington Post’s Sean Sullivan reports on a radio interview yesterday featuring Rep. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota, who is running for the U.S. Senate against incumbent Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp. Cramer drew fire over the weekend after he asserted that the allegation of sexual assault against Brett Kavanaugh leveled by former classmate Dr. Christine […]

Of Water Calls and Water Boys

(Promoted by Colorado Pols) The Compact Call Talk was heard this summer in water circles, of a scary scenario coming to pass should the rivers keep shrinking: A call under the 1922 Colorado River Compact, which parcels up the Colorado River (and its tributaries) among seven thirsty states, and divides its flows between “upper” and […]

Who Will be Colorado’s Next Governor? (Round 5)

We’ve been asking our readers this question for weeks now. Who do you THINK is going to win the race for Governor? Remember, we’re looking for your best educated guess on the outcome of this race, not who you support or who you would prefer to see emerge victorious. The point of this exercise is to […]

Local Domestic Violence Activists Rally To Deborah Ramirez

UPDATE #3: Denver7’s Blair Miller with more local support for Deborah Ramirez: Lisa Calderon, who currently teaches at Denver’s Regis University and was Ramirez’s supervisor while the two worked together at Safehouse Progressive for Nonviolence (SPAN), said the attacks on Ramirez were unfair. Ramirez has been working for Boulder County as a volunteer since 2013, […]

BREAKING: Second Kavanaugh Accuser, From Colorado, Blows SCOTUS Nomination Sky High

MONDAY UPDATE: .⁦@Marshall9News⁩ captures this pic of Debbie Ramirez’ trash can, which could be the best “no comment” in the history of news. #copolitics pic.twitter.com/03BvfLA0dP — Vic Vela (@VicVela1) September 24, 2018 —– Investigative journalist Ronan Farrow, whose exposure of ex-Hollywood mogul Harvey Weinstein’s chronic sexual harassment, alleged sexual assault, and acknowledged stomach-churning exploitation of women […]

Walker Stapleton’s Packed-House Victory Tour Continues

After a swing through Eastern Colorado that turned into a running joke with turnout to campaign stops that could best be described as pitiful, GOP gubernatorial candidate Walker Stapleton is touring the Western Slope this weekend in hope of drawing crowds that have thus far been embarrassingly elusive. Based on the turnout in Pagosa Springs […]

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