(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%
Even my food takeout is lobbying me for #FeelTheBern pic.twitter.com/TTTNgBLxLV — Jared Polis (@jaredpolis) March 27, 2016 As the Daily Camera’s Mitchell Byars reports, no escaping “The Bern” in the People’s Republic of Boulder: Boulder Rep. Jared Polis opted for takeout on Easter Sunday, but he got more than just food with his order. Polis […]
If you were in Canada, you’d have the day off today for Easter Monday (you’d also have a totally dreamy Prime Minister). It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols! If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► Colorado’s budget […]
We haven’t seen any long-form reporting on Colorado Senate President Bill Cadman’s remarks yesterday at the El Paso County Republican Party assembly, but Ramsey Scott at the Colorado Statesman Tweeted a quote from Cadman that, assuming it holds up contextually, could make for one hell of a bumper sticker in the 2016 presidential race. For Democrats, […]
Chalkbeat Colorado’s Todd Engdahl reports on another odd development in the GOP-controlled Senate Education Committee, where a bipartisan bill to alleviate high-stakes testing pressure on high school freshmen in Colorado went off the rails yesterday: A bill that would ban mandatory state language arts and math tests in ninth grade cleared the Senate Education Committee […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) With new polling released today showing the American public rejects the right-wing stonewalling of President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee, ProgressNow Colorado, the state’s largest online progressive advocacy organization, delivered a petition with nearly 1,300 names and hundreds of comments from Coloradans to Sen. Cory Gardner demanding he do his job […]
Happy Good Friday–which we’re pretty sure you’re not supposed to say since it’s the day Jesus died, but that requires a lot more explaining. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols! If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). TOP OF MIND TODAY… […]
UPDATE: A reader counts ’em up: Unpledged: 314 Ted Cruz: 102 Donald Trump: 62 Marco Rubio (dropout): 10 John Kasich: 5 Ben Carson (dropout): 4 Our friend Jason Salzman broke the news earlier this week that the Colorado Republican Party would publish a roster of candidates to serve as delegates to the Republican National Convention in […]
You might remember former Jefferson County Commissioner Kevin McCasky, who resigned midway through his second term in the Commissioner’s office in order to take a high-paying job with the Jefferson County Economic Development Corporation (EDC). McCasky had an ethically-questionable tenure in Jefferson County government. His departure from the Board of Commissioners was quintessential McCasky: On the […]
Happy “little Purim” everybody! It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► The Colorado legislature (most of them, anyway) took a snow day on Wednesday. But as Megan Schrader reports for the Colorado Springs […]
UPDATE: Dave Perry of the Aurora Sentinel tears into Bill Cadman: Cadman’s polemic dia-Trump stems from an argument over Colorado’s constitutional tax provision that requires voters to approve tax increases. There is no tax increase at issue here. The problem is the so-called Taxpayer Bill of Rights creates an arbitrary and convoluted budget baseline. If tax […]
We wanted to be sure this report from the Colorado Independent’s Kelsey Ray got noted for the record, and today’s freak Front Range blizzard makes a fun backdrop: Republican-sponsored SB 157 would suspend all Colorado action toward implementing the CPP indefinitely, unless the Court lifts its stay and approves the plan… “If part of the Clean […]
Our condolences to those Colorado students who would have had a snow day today…if they weren’t in the middle of Spring Break already. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► The Colorado […]
UPDATE: A statement from GOP Senate President Bill Cadman praises the nomination of Donna Lynne as Lt. Gov., consistent with the bipartisan positive responses we’re hearing today: Colorado Senate President Bill Cadman (R-Colorado Springs) today released the following statement in response to Gov. Hickenlooper’s nomination of Donna Lynne to be Lieutenant Governor: “As a longtime […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Last week, Denver Post reporter John Frank wrote that 9News’ “announcement of the first televised debate in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate is sure to create controversy: With more than a dozen candidates in the race, who will make the debate stage?” 9News stated it will include any “viable” candidate in its April 5 […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) Colorado state workers met with their legislators on Monday, March 21, Colorado WINS Lobby Day, to talk about the state’s budget priorities including the hospital provider fee, Youth Corrections staffing and working conditions. Workers from communities throughout Colorado were at the Capitol, including a contingent from Alamosa County who met with […]
Apropos news from the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, hearing the case of a bunch of elected Colorado sheriffs vs. Gov. John Hickenlooper, seeking to overturn the state’s landmark 2013 gun safety laws–in particular the laws requiring background checks on most private gun transfers, and limiting magazine capacity to 15 rounds. Tomorrow, the Senate State […]
(Compassion, Laura Waters Woods style – Promoted by Colorado Pols) If you follow my blog, you know I’ve been pointing out how Republicans are falsely blaming Colorado budget problems on healthcare costs for the elderly, disabled, and other poor people. What’s worse, after scapegoating Medicaid spending on healthcare for the poor, Republicans haven’t said how […]
(Promoted by Colorado Pols) The Colorado Republican Party will post on its website the names of all the GOP activists who are running to be Colorado delegates at July’s Republican National Convention in Cleveland. In a KLZ 560-AM interview last week, State GOP Chair Steve House said the list of candidates, which will appear on […]
As the Washington Post reports, a Commerce City-based Republican aligned political mail shop known as WizBang Solutions keeps popping back up as a major vendor, for both Donald Trump’s official presidential campaign and a “SuperPAC” set up to help him: Donald Trump’s campaign has paid more than $1.2 million to a small Colorado printing firm […]
Send happy thoughts to our friends in Belgium today. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► Today isn’t a “Super Tuesday” — in fact, it’s only a tad more interesting than […]
Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump met with the editorial board of the Washington Post on Monday and introduced — for the first time publicly — members of his “foreign policy” team. The Post put together a short bio for each of the Trump advisors, and, well, there’s this guy… George Papadopoulos, a 2009 graduate of DePaul University, directs an international energy […]
The U.S. Senate is on a two-week recess, naturally, because Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has everyone exhausted after nearly four whole work weeks of not accomplishing anything. Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner (R-Yuma) is spending part of his recess on a Senate Foreign Relations Committee field trip to the Middle East, as the Associated Press reports: Saudi Arabia’s official news agency […]
According to a new poll, The Hill reports, the decision by U.S. Senate Republicans led by Mitch McConnell to stonewall any Supreme Court nominee from President Barack Obama is shaping up to be a huge election-year mistake: More than three-fourths of Americans say Senate Republicans are “playing politics” by refusing to take up President Obama’s […]
The first day of Spring was on Sunday…no, really. It’s time to Get More Smarter with Colorado Pols. If you think we missed something important, please include the link in the comments below (here’s a good example). TOP OF MIND TODAY… ► Republican Presidential frontrunner Donald Trump unveiled the first group of names for his “foreign policy team” should […]
The Los Angeles Times reports today, the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear the suit brought by the states of Nebraska and Oklahoma challenging Colorado’s legalization of marijuana for recreational use and sale: By a 6-2 vote, the justices turned away a lawsuit brought by Nebraska and Oklahoma, whose state attorneys complained that illegal marijuana […]
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