(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: FOX 31’s Joe St. George updating via Twitter that Boulder County DA Stan Garnett has also filed to run for AG, but hasn’t formally committed yet: Just spoke with @DAGarnett. He has also filed paperwork to run for AG in Colorado as a Democrat. #copolitics #kdvr #kwgn — Joe St. George (@JoeStGeorge) March 11, […]
As the Colorado Statesman’s John Tomasic reports–for the second year in a row, legislation to clamp down on the practice of “coal rolling” has died in the GOP-controlled Colorado Senate after passing the Colorado House and a GOP cosponsor in the Senate: Rolling coal has made news across the country for years. It involves modifying a […]
Fifty. That’s how many days Donald Trump has now been in the White House. Let’s go ahead and see if we can 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 […]
UPDATE: You can add the chief medical officer of the federal government’s Medicaid program to this list.
That was the scene on the West Steps of the Colorado state capitol building today, as Treasurer Walker Stapleton’s long-hyped rally for congressional term limits took place on an unseasonably warm Thursday afternoon. As we’ve discussed in this space and readers have seen in site ads for weeks, this event had a very large promotional […]
Ask your boss if you can work outside this afternoon. Let’s go ahead and see if we can 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 […]
We’re obliged to bring to our readers’ attention a distressing situation affecting one of our longtime readers and guest bloggers, Paonia-based environmental activist Pete Kolbenschlag. For years, Kolbenschlag has provided our community with insightful commentary on energy and conservation issues affecting Colorado’s energy-rich Western Slope. But as the Grand Junction Sentinel’s Dennis Webb reported this week, […]
A press release moments ago from El Paso County Clerk and Recorder Chuck Broerman announces one of the rarest events in American politics, even if it’s one of the most commonly feared: a conviction for actual vote fraud by an actual voter. The El Paso County Clerk and Recorder’s Office is pleased to announce a […]
The Boulder Daily Camera’s Charlie Brennan reports on growing unease in Boulder, home to numerous important federal environmental research facilities including the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, as the Trump administration prepares to take a hacksaw to parts of the government that don’t comport with the new president’s vision–like climate science: Little more than a […]
Happy International Women’s Day! Let’s go ahead and see if we can 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… ► President Trump has joined with House […]
Republicans will have to pass a healthcare bill in order to find out what it says. This has been a popular joke around Capitol Hill recently, and like any good yarn, it is one that has its roots in reality. According to a Tweet from Rep. Mike Coffman’s office this afternoon, the Aurora Republican was hunkered down at his […]
Yesterday, Senator Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) signed a letter from four Republican Senators expressing opposition to any healthcare legislation that would attempt to gut Medicaid, which is a key component in any serious GOP repeal-and-destroy legislation. This was an interesting move from Gardner, given that he voted in late 2015 to gut Medicaid, but attempting to be all things to […]
A press release from One Colorado, the state’s principal LGBT advocacy group, cheers the state house passage of House Bill 17-1156—this year’s bill to ban the controversial practice of what’s known as “conversion therapy” to “cure” LGBT kids of their homosexuality: “House Bill 1156 will protect lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer youth in Colorado from discredited […]
Go away, wind. Let’s go ahead and see if we can 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… ► House Republicans finally unveiled their healthcare […]
The intra-GOP fight over House Bill 17-1187, legislation that would refer to voters a change to the 1992 Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights allowing the state to keep more revenue by basing the caps in the law on personal income growth, appears to be heating up rapidly as the bill heads for passage in the Colorado […]
A press release from the Colorado House Democratic majority late today, but still in time for the same news cycle as President Donald Trump’s revised executive order barring travel to the United States by persons from several Muslim majority nations–announcing the introduction of House Bill 17-1230, Ralph Carr Freedom Defense Act: Reps. Joe Salazar and Daneya Esgar […]
UPDATE: We’re thinking of a word that starts with “cluster” and rhymes with “duck.” There’s no better way to encapsulate the just-released newest version of a House Republican Obamacare repeal plan. —– Another major twist in the intra-GOP battle over repealing the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, a long-sought objective of the Republican Party now imperiled as […]
State Sen. Larry Crowder (R-Alamosa) has tried to stake out his own positions on several key issues since first winning election in 2012, and this has not made him particularly popular with Senate Republican leaders. Crowder has broken with GOP leadership on the Hospital Provider Fee and TABOR reform, and last week he tried to go in a different direction on […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) By Rich Jones A critical vote could come in the U.S. Senate as soon as this week. And Sen. Cory Gardner has the chance to stand up for his constituents instead of appeasing Wall Street interests lobbying him to stymie local and state efforts to tackle our nation’s retirement needs. Nearly […]
Denver Post political reporters Mark Matthews and John Frank published a story this weekend that focuses on the incipient 2018 gubernatorial race, and the possibility of former U.S. Senator Ken Salazar making a run to replace Gov. John Hickenlooper: If he wants it, Ken Salazar has the chops and connections to make a hard run […]
Last Monday, a pro-President Donald Trump “Spirit of America” rally was held on the steps of the Colorado state capitol building–the first of two such long-planned and widely-publicized pro-Trump gatherings, intended to answer over a month of huge protests against the new President. As and we could have predicted, Trump’s rally in the middle of a […]
UPDATE: Let’s get the most obvious Photoshopping out of the way: “Imma let you finish, Cory.” —– Wayne Williams nailed it at tonight’s Lincoln DD, which fueled more requests for him to run for gov. #copolitics pic.twitter.com/y3RCajBym9 — Lynn Bartels (@lynn_bartels) March 5, 2017 An incredibly captionable moment of levity with Colorado’s always-in-demand Sen. Cory […]
As the Durango Herald’s Jessica Pace reported this week–although Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah pulled a bill earlier this year to sell off “surplus” public lands under heavy criticism from conservationists, Chaffetz is evidently not done trying to weaken protections over wild Western lands–and locals in Southwest Colorado are sounding the alarm: La Plata County commissioners […]
(Mike Coffman flip-flops once again – Promoted by Colorado Pols) UPDATE: Coffman responded to Joey Bunch: Coffman: “My comment was referring to legislation where I could see that between 2013 and until recently, nothing was getting done in D.C., and that it would be better for the American people to hold the majority party in […]
Oh, we thought you were asking if we spoke Russian… Let’s go ahead and see if we can 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… ► Russia, […]
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