(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%
Golfball-sized hail is just God cleaning out his ice maker. 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… ► Legislation introduced […]
A war of over-the-top words between Sen. Cory Gardner and the government of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea this week is serving up great joke fodder, as Denver7’s Blair Miller reports: U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner has drawn the attention and ire of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un after calling the volatile leader a “whack job” […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) On Sunday, May 7, 2017, Trump’s Deputy Assistant “Dr* Sebastian Gorka chatted with KVOR radio host Tron Simpson. I listened, and it raised several questions: Why was a top level Presidential appointee slumming on a right wing talk show in Colorado Springs? Is “*Dr.” Gorka still a part of the President’s […]
Following up on a story we posted last Friday, in which the Colorado Senate GOP majority blocked what should have been the routine re-appointment of Heidi Hess as chair of the Colorado Civil Rights Commission–as the Denver Business Journal’s Ed Sealover reports on the confusion and finger-pointing in the wake of their decision: Colorado Senate Republicans […]
May the Eighth be With You…yeah, that doesn’t work at all. 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… ► Former acting […]
As the Denver Post’s Jason Blevins reports: last week, Gov. John Hickenlooper came away from a meeting with Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke “reassured” that Colorado would not part of a “review” of national monuments ordered by President Donald Trump. Via Facebook: Governor Mead, Governor Sandoval, and I, met with Secretary Zinke yesterday in […]
As the Colorado Statesman’s John Tomasic reports, the conclusion last week that an abandoned oil and gas well was responsible for a massive explosion that destroyed a recently-built home in Firestone, killing two people, hasn’t persuaded Firestone’s representative in the Colorado General Assembly, Republican Rep. Lori Saine, that any legislative action is needed: State Rep. […]
[mantra-pullquote align=”right” textalign=”left” width=”33%”]”I think the difference between what he wants and what we want is that we’re interested in elections and he’s just interested in getting elected.” — Deputy Secretary of State Suzanne Staiert (Denver Post, 5/1/17)[/mantra-pullquote] The Colorado legislative session will come to a close on Wednesday, but things are getting nasty in […]
A strange and ugly incident in the Colorado Senate this morning, as the Denver Post’s Jesse Paul reports: In an unusual move Friday, Republican state senators blocked an LGBT advocate from continuing to serve on the Colorado Civil Rights Commission — which she chairs — by rejecting re-appointment to the group by Democratic Gov. John Hickenlooper. Heidi […]
Remember, kids: Don’t put the guacamole in your tortilla-chip hat until just before you are ready to leave the house. 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 Denver Post’s John Aguilar reports on final passage of House Bill 17-1279, the hard-fought bipartisan compromise legislation to address developer concerns about liability for defects in the construction of new condominium developments. A compromise that builders are already declaring insufficient: Now that state lawmakers have passed the first measure in years to abate construction-related […]
UPDATE: Congress has approved Trumpcare 2.0 by a narrow margin of 217-213, and will now (of course) take its two-week recess. Here’s how Colorado’s delegation voted on the measure: YES Rep. Scott Tipton (R-Cortez) Rep. Ken Buck (R-Greeley) Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado Springs) NO Rep. Diana DeGette (D-Denver) Rep. Jared Polis (D-Boulderish) Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Aurora) […]
As the Colorado Independent’s Marianne Goodland reports, the long-sought bipartisan deal to fix a vexing budgetary problem in Colorado that would free up hundreds of millions of dollars, reclassifying the state’s Hospital Provider Fee program to no longer count against revenue limits under the 1992 Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights (TABOR), is apparently close to fruition. […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Education is a motivating issue anywhere in soccer-mom country, but in Colorado its force is compounded by the lingering impact of the emotional 2015 Jefferson County School Board recall election, in which voters overwhelmingly tossed out conservatives. Republican Bob Beauprez’s outspoken alignment with the losing school board members, including his support of […]
UPDATE #3: Rep. Mike Coffman’s updated statement–we can now confirm he’s either a yes or a no. “Republicans promised to fix the Affordable Care Act mess, and we must. The current bill has a lot of strong elements — giving the states more flexibility is sound public policy. Colorado knows better than Washington, DC and […]
We’re still waiting to see if Congressional Republicans can muster enough votes to attempt to repeal Obamacare and replace it with Trumpcare 2.0. But here in Colorado, there is no such mystery surrounding GOP efforts to dismantle the Colorado Health Benefit Exchange. As 9News reports: Senate Bill Three was one of six bills highlighted in the […]
After three tries in two years, we’re delighted to note for the record what the Colorado Statesman’s John Tomasic reports: Senate Bill 278, sponsored in the House by Fort Collins Democrat JoAnn Ginal and in the Senate by Durango Republican Don Coram, passed a final reading in the House today by a wide margin, 40-25. […]
The Colorado legislature is scheduled to end its 2017 session one week from today, which has both the House and Senate scrambling to check off items on their “to-do lists.” One of the pressing issues that is causing much hand-wringing in the final days of the 2017 session revolves around trying to figure out how to […]
Investigators continue to look into the massive home explosion in late April that killed two people and seriously injured two others north of Denver. As Cathy Proctor reports for the Denver Business Journal, the culprit of the home explosion is indeed a nearby gas well owned by Anadarko: The Frederick-Firestone Fire Department on Tuesday said their investigation […]
Magellan Strategies, a Colorado-based polling firm that is known to lean-Republican, released a fresh new batch of polling numbers in Colorado today. For Republicans hoping to see better results after an awful Keating Research poll in March… Well, let’s just say that things are looking up — but only because Republican numbers are essentially upside-down. […]
TUESDAY UPDATE: Concerns over the status of “pre-existing conditions” in the latest version of Trumpcare is costing Congressional Republicans the support of key moderates. From the Washington Post: The revamped Republican push for a sweeping overhaul of the nation’s health-care system ran into a new roadblock on Tuesday when a key lawmaker, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), […]
If someone left a bouquet of May Day flowers on your front door today, we want to hear about it. Seriously. 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 […]
With President Donald Trump’s first 100 days in the books, local Republicans are hoping to put their positive spin on what is generally agreed to be an historically unproductive start to Trump’s administration–here’s Sen. Ray Scott of Grand Junction putting his best face on Trump for the Colorado Springs Gazette: For a new president who […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Appearing on a conservative radio show last week, U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) said it’s “politics at its worst” to be “celebrating the defeat of a replacement” for Obamacare. Politics at its worst looks more like Gardner’s vicious opposition to Obamacare for seven years, then being unable to point to a […]
As the Denver Post’s Hayley Sanchez reports, a little April snow can’t get Colorado down: Dressed in snow boots and ski clothes, demonstrators chanted “Hey hey, ho ho, climate change has got to go,” and “This what democracy looks like.” The messages on some signs dripped in the wet snow but others’ stayed legible and […]
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