(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%
Denver7’s Blair Miller reports on another endnote in the long battle to wrest control of Jefferson County Public Schools back from a conservative majority elected in 2013 and ousted in an historic 2015 recall election–the departure of conservative superintendent Dan McMinimee: Jeffco Public Schools Superintendent Dan McMinimee is out of his job early, as the district […]
UPDATE #4: Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from any investigation into the 2016 presidential elections as questions about his testimony continue. —– UPDATE #3: Looks like Sen. Cory Gardner may have finally realized this is a problem, but still no call even for Sessions to recuse himself from the Russiagate investigation: .@SenCoryGardner statement on […]
Talking about healthcare reform is easy. Donald Trump says that Obamacare will be repealed and replaced “with something terrific,” though he doesn’t have any idea what that might entail (and if he does, he’s not saying anything specific). Senator Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) sums up Republican healthcare efforts by saying,”On health insurance: lower the cost of care and increase the quality […]
Marianne Goodland of the Colorado Independent reports on a familiar wrinkle for constituents trying to convey messages to the office of their Congressional representative — in this case, Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Aurora): When the Arapahoe County Young Democrats, led by Kronda Seibert, approached the door of the building, they were met by a man, later named by both Seibert and the […]
A memorable photo courtesy FOX 31’s Joe St. George, here’s Colorado’s own Sen. Cory Gardner, third from the left of President Donald Trump (lower right of this picture) at today’s White House luncheon: We’re going to go out on a limb here and suggest that Gardner did not call Trump a “buffoon” this time.
We’ve gotten a few queries today about a story that aired on 9NEWS last night, in which political reporter Brandon Rittiman announced the results of a “study” they had performed on the number of town halls held by Colorado’s federal elected officials in recent years: Coloradans from across the state have accused Republican lawmakers of ducking their […]
March is definitely arriving in lamb form — in the Denver Metro area, at least. 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. […]
President Trump is expected to focus on his budget plans when he delivers his first speech to a joint session of Congress tonight, but Congressional Republicans are just as eager to learn more from Trump about a potential roadmap for the repeal/replacement of Obamacare. As Politico writes, Republicans have been perplexed about the White House “strategy” on Obamacare, which […]
State Treasurer Walker Stapleton is not funny. Not intentionally, anyway. We feel compelled to point this out after reading a particularly-sad attempt at political spin from a local right-wing blog that is harder to swallow than a tennis ball. Stapleton was interviewed last week by Kyle Clark of 9News, not long after Deputy Treasurer Jon Forbes resigned from […]
An editorial in today’s Denver Post continues a tradition that local political observers have become keenly aware of in recent years, not just around Sen. Cory Gardner but other favored Republican politicians: a disregard for the editorial board’s stated values in order to protect individual lawmakers. But yes, today the editorial is about Cory Gardner, and his […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) On a new page on his official web site, announcing a series of “telephone town halls,” U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner (R-CO) writes, “To join our conversations, complete the form below and we will call you before each event starts.” But if Gardner selects specific people, he may be breaking U.S. Senate […]
Get caught up on your Colorado political news while you wait for that giraffe to give birth. Now, let’s see if we can’t 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 […]
The Colorado Independent’s Marianne Goodland reports on the debate in the General Assembly over House Bill 17-1102, a second attempt by Democratic Rep. Joann Ginal to outlaw the modifications made to diesel vehicles allowing that to spew vast quantities of smoke with a flip of a switch–a practice known in the vernacular as “rolling coal.” […]
Denver7’s Oscar Contreras reports from Friday night’s “town hall” for Sen. Cory Gardner at Byers Middle School in Denver–an event that Sen. Gardner declined to attend, but was nonetheless headlined by…we’ll let Denver7 explain: Hundreds of Coloradans have wanted to speak with Sen. Cory Gardner since the beginning of the year. Friday night, he finally granted […]
As the Colorado Statesman’s Ernest Luning reports: Word that the White House could begin cracking down on the marijuana trade in states that have legalized the drug drew swift rebuke Thursday from Democratic lawmakers in Colorado, the first state to cultivate a recreational pot industry. “Whether it is building a wall or stripping protections for […]
As the Denver Post’s John Ingold reports, Rep. Ken Buck of Greeley just helped deprive Coloradans of whatever security they might have felt about health care, after other Colorado Republicans like Rep. Mike Coffman and Sen. Cory Gardner assured us that the Affordable Care Act would not be repealed without a replacement in place: In […]
(Note that this was BEFORE Coffman said he would not vote for repeal without a replacement – Promoted by Colorado Pols) U.S. Rep. Ken Buck (R-CO) made headlines after he told constituents this week that it could take several years for Republicans to come up with an Obamacare replacement and, when they unveil their plan, […]
This was probably inevitable, but that doesn’t make it any less terrifying: CNN, The New York Times, Politico, and other mainstream news organizations were blocked from participating in a White House media briefing on Friday afternoon. Journalists expressed outrage at the unusual move, and the Associated Press and Time magazine boycotted the briefing as a result. Spicer reportedly […]
It’s cold outside — colder than the reception you might receive if you tried to talk to Sen. Cory Gardner. Now, let’s see if we can’t 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 […]
UPDATE: Once again Sen. Cory Gardner’s backside is flapping in the breeze: Republican Senator Cory Gardner of Colorado, where marijuana production and distribution has become an established industry, spoke with Sessions before his confirmation about the business in his state and was assured there will be no sudden changes in policy. “That was the take-away […]
UPDATE: Here’s another camera angle of the encounter: More video of constituents asking @SenCoryGardner for a #TownHall. #COpolitics #WheresCory #WillCoryShow cc: @KDVR @9news @MSNBC @maddow pic.twitter.com/gooxZtVTGz — Kaili Lambe (@Kaili09) February 23, 2017 —– Wow! Great work by a number of @IndivisibleTeam folks greeting @SenCoryGardner in Broomfield this morning. #WillCoryShow tomorrow? pic.twitter.com/qNUQVkTUhz — Kaili Lambe […]
(¯\_(ツ)_/¯ — Promoted by Colorado Pols) Last week, MSNBC’s Chris Hayes asked Rep. Mark Sanford (R-SC) if he could guarantee to his constituents that they’d “have coverage if you have it now.” “The answer to that is no, right?” asked Hayes. “Yes,” replied Sanford. “The answer is, we don’t know with precision.” Colorado Republicans need to […]
Marianne Goodland of the Colorado Independent produced some impressive journalism this week when she managed to 1) Learn about a secret “constituent” meeting with Rep. Ken Buck (R-Greeley), and 2) Find a way to get inside the room at said secret meeting. As Goodland learned firsthand, Rep. Buck is making some fairly bold assurances about healthcare reform […]
One of the top stories of the 2016 elections in Colorado centered on a campaign mounted in a key Colorado Senate race, swing suburban Senate District 19 in Arvada, attacking the Democratic challenger in that race now-Sen. Rachel Zenzinger. The allegation that Zenzinger had “voted to spend taxpayer money on a trip to China” as […]
UPDATE: Sen. Gardner brings his super-duper surprise outreach to Ft. Collins on Wednesday evening: The event is private; but Gardner’s appearance was not confirmed beforehand. https://t.co/LnuHwqK1ux — Jennifer Hefty (@jenniferhefty) February 23, 2017 —– With a recess underway and thousands of Coloradans looking to ask their GOP Sen. Cory Gardner questions about what’s going on […]
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