(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%
UPDATE #2: All four Republicans in Colorado’s Congressional delegation sided with leadership on a narrow 211-207 vote to move the discussion forward. As CNN explains: The internal GOP backlash to the amount of spending and the process of rushing the measure through just 16 hours after it was released was on full display on the House […]
UPDATE #2: Next question–didn’t all these Senate aides get ordered not to talk to the press? More than 100 Senate staff, aides and interns have been warned against speaking to journalists about workplace issues, including sexual harassment, and the trainings aimed at preventing it… Grantham responded: “As staff members they should understand that confidentiality is […]
Senate Minority Leader Lucia Guzman resigned her leadership post on Thursday. Senate Democrats elected Pueblo Democrat Leroy Garcia as her replacement. The term-limited Guzman will serve out the remainder of her time in the Senate as Assistant Minority Leader. In a statement, Guzman explained her decision thusly: “Sometimes leadership means stepping back so others can step forward. […]
Denver7’s Blair Miller follows up on a big story we’ve been trying to get more information on since it broke over a week ago–an appearance on CBS’ Face the Nation by Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, in which Gardner was unexpectedly questioned about a secret hold he allegedly has placed on a bill to strengthen […]
We wrote on Tuesday about the connections between disgraced data firm Cambridge Analytica and Republican efforts to win control of the Colorado State Senate in 2014. Today, Blair Miller of Denver7 drops another related bombshell linking Cambridge Analytica with two shadowy Republican organizations called “Centennial Coalition” and “Concerned Citizens for Colorado” that targeted State Sen. Andy Kerr over […]
KUNC’s Bente Birkeland once again breaks news that casts Senate Republicans in an unfavorable light as the foot-dragging reluctance by Senate President Kevin Grantham to take action against Senators found by independent investigations to have committed harassment becomes the story–despite desperate attempts to muddy the waters: It has been nearly two months since an independent […]
Colorado Public Radio’s Sam Brasch updates the bizarre turn that the controversy over widespread sexual harassment at the Colorado General Assembly took earlier this week–in an apparent attempt to distract from investigated and credible allegations of sexual harassment by at least three Republican state senators, a complaint alleging that a Democratic senator used an unmarked […]
WEDNESDAY UPDATE: Farah confirms his candidacy with Ernest Luning at the publication formerly known as the Colorado Statesman and John Frank at the Denver Post. Here’s what Farah said in an interview with the Post: “I have not seen a genuine conservative that has a credible chance of winning in November being represented at the assembly…” …”Conservatives don’t really want […]
John Frank and Mark Matthews of the Denver Post break yet another big story about manipulation of Colorado elections by outside actors, plying novel–and as it turns out, improper–social media engagement tactics to “microtarget” Colorado voters in what appears to have been a preview of Donald Trump’s unprecedented manipulation of social media to win the […]
AP’s Vladimir Isachenkov via the Denver Post, hooray comrade! U.S. President Donald Trump called Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday to congratulate him on his re-election, the Kremlin said. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders confirmed that Trump spoke with Putin Tuesday morning. She said a summary of the call would be released later… Putin’s […]
.@GeorgeBrauchler challenges Mike Coffman to do 63 push-ups at his 63rd birthday party. George did his best keep up.#COpolitics pic.twitter.com/iBZFAPMiq8 — Tyler Sandberg (@wtylersandberg) March 18, 2018 Way to pound ’em out there, brahs! But unfortunately the photo doesn’t tell us if these were, you know, real pushups. These from 2014 were not.
Hello, Springtime! 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… ► The suspect in a school shooting in […]
In December 2016, Denver businessman Noel Ginsburg became the first official Democratic candidate to enter the 2018 race for Governor. Today, Ginsburg is ending his campaign. Ginsburg would have been the fourth Democratic candidate to attempt to petition his way onto the Primary ballot before today’s deadline; when Ginsburg wasn’t able to beat Lieutenant Governor Donna Lynne to […]
As the Pueblo Chieftain’s Peter Roper reports, the widening gulf between politicians beholden to the National Rifle Association and still more radical gun-rights groups like the local Rocky Mountain Gun Owners, and the rest of America increasingly demanding action to reduce the death toll in mass shootings was on full display yesterday in the Colorado Senate […]
https://www.mccormickforcongress.org/(Promoted by Colorado Pols — create your own account and write something yourself) Hi, my name is Karen McCormick, DVM. I’m a veterinarian – and I’m a Democrat running for Congress against Ken Buck in Colorado’s 4th Congressional District. Being a vet for 33 years may not be a typical background for a Congressional candidate. […]
UPDATE: So as we understand it, Republican Colorado Senators find discussion of sexual matters in explicit terms offensive: Apparently that outrage is a bit, you know, selective. Yes gentle readers, things got very stupid very fast today! Sorry to transgress anyone’s conveniently sudden Mike Pence modesty, but our lawmakers are grownups, and sexual harassment is […]
Attorney General Cynthia Coffman is seeking the Republican nomination for Governor, and she’s finally hired herself a campaign staff as she seeks to make it onto the June Primary through the caucus/assembly process. Coffman announced her new campaign team this morning, and we’re still rubbing our necks from the double-take it caused: CYNTHIA COFFMAN FOR GOVERNOR […]
Readers of Colorado Pols are aware that Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) is the 2018 Chair of the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), which is a fancy way of saying that it is Gardner’s job to make sure that Republicans don’t lose control of the U.S. Senate this year. This has not gone well for Gardner, so it’s […]
Fresh off the Twitter machine this morning: This morning we turned in more than double the number of petition signatures needed to qualify for the June primary ballot. I could not be more proud of our volunteers, interns and staff who worked so hard to get this done. It was truly a grassroots effort! #copolitics […]
Denver7’s Tony Kovaleski updates the story of a sexual harassment claim against Denver Mayor Michael Hancock from a former member of his police security detail–a story which, despite the apparent reluctance of the City Council to wade into a complex and politically murky situation further scrambled by opportunistic score-settling against the Mayor by the police […]
(People are moving out of Colorado? That’s news to…everybody! – Promoted by Colorado Pols) Appearing on conservative radio Thursday, State Rep. Patrick Neville of Castle Rock, the House Republican leader, blamed immigrants for helping to drive people out of the state of Colorado. The topic was introduced by KLZ afternoon radio host John Rush, who […]
Denver7 recaps a big story from last week that no one who follows Colorado politics should be happy about–new layoffs in The Denver Post’s newsroom that are certain to further reduce both the quality and quantity of local political journalism: The news broke Wednesday that the largest newspaper in Colorado would lose about 30 percent […]
Roger Edwards, Colorado Polster and candidate for Congressional District 6, was recently interviewed on Gordon “Dr. Chaps” Klingenschmitt’s Pray in Jesus Name online “news” program. Edwards should be more careful about the people he associates with; Chaps is a known nutcase, homophobe, and a con man who has made millions by exploiting the hopes and […]
Every election cycle turns out its share of terrible candidates, from out-of-touch hardliners with bizarre policy views, to those who are without a filter or just plain weirdos. It happens all the time, but it is intensified whenever there is a major change in the national political mood like we’re seeing in 2018. In years […]
Chris Cillizza of CNN sums up some of the notable changes in the world of political handicapping following Tuesday’s big Democratic pickup in a special election in Pennsylvania: On Friday, CNN changed the ratings of 17 House contests — all in Democrats favor. The Cook Political Report, a nonpartisan handicapping site, moved 9 races in […]
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